In Search of African Cognoscenti: Politics of schadenfreude – agent provocateurs’ argumentum ad hominem

In Search of African Cognoscenti:

Politics of schadenfreude – agent provocateurs’ argumentum ad hominem

Youth Leadership Conference- Hawassa, SNNPR

Public Lecture, CX, MMXIII

Costantinos Berhutesfa Costantinos, PhD,

Professor of Public Policy, School of Graduate Studies,

College of Business & Economics, AAU,

Summary

     Whether through legitimate elections or machinations, one-party states dominate Africa since independence, which have exhibited an enhanced degree of coercive power, resulting in a pervasive military ethos leading to the emergence of oligarchies through a long and painful process of ideological schooling, coups and counter coups. Practices such as free elections, the formatting of political parties, free and open public discourse are all concepts that need to be installed in the minds of ‘politicians’. Such a scene produces desperate and noxious regime-haters that defy logic, blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on Africa, by creating chaos in distant communities.

     Non-ideological conflicts among kibbutzim ‘African’ are also rampant despite the ‘political freedom’ in their asylum nations, they behave so because they are brought up in milieus, where certain dysfunctionalism is the norm! Supported by the West, they advocate violence in the edition of the Arab Spring that has now brewed an ominous talk of an Islamist Fall and Salafi Winter. Western onslaught of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc… has only resulted in total disarray for the life and livelihood of their citizens. Europe is harvesting a deluge of refugees it helped create.

    Agencies of noxious regime-haters and activities to which they are often tied to, tend to be flustered and, at times, flustering. Their media thrive on fostering chaos and engender needless convolution and strife. Thus, as promoters of fake plural politics, they often do not efficiently realize the potential of the ideas they promote. The volume of their intrusions is not even nearly proportional to their impact raises the issue of whether their rhetoric in question was fundamentally constrained at the moment of their conception by the very chaotic structures that ground their articulation. Within such anarchy, ideas of pluralism may be artificially deflated by particular subterfuges of decrepit pecuniary exiles that wish to stall entire social transformation processes, until they are in charge.

Key words: dysfunctional politicians, cognoscenti, regime change

Pernicious people cloaked as politicians and rights activists defy reason and

derive carnality from sadomasochism, ecstatically oblivious of their deleterious violence-ridden mission. Whether it is ruthlessness or just plain idiocy, such reckless ‘agent provocateurs’ that augur their discourse on argumentum ad hominem find it tantalizing to waste the intellect of cognoscenti as their emotive cesspool

Great minds discuss ideas,

 Average ones debate events & Ssmall ones chew over people…

(Eleanor Roosevelt)

see paper here