"The silent man still suffers wrong."
Silence is a beautiful position as no one can be judged on what was never said. However, silence and inaction are bold statements. What an oxymoron, for one to claim to be proudly Ugandan, and not vote?
The current state of Uganda's technology scene has partially been an outcome of silence. The silence has left the leaders shielded from the consequences of their actions and inactions.
The conclusions Daniel made in his post might not be wholly agreeable, but his leadership in breaking out of the silence to start the conversation, ought to be applauded.
Unfortunately, his leadership has mostly been met by reactions instead of responses, from individuals acting as officially appointed guardians of the status-quo.
The preservation of the status-quo is an insult to innovation. The heart of innovation lies in out of the box thinking. The individuals hammering the outliers thinking differently into conformity, are actually destroying the industry they intend to support.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Lastly, the silent should speak out and those reacting should respond deliberately without bias.
Silence is a beautiful position as no one can be judged on what was never said. However, silence and inaction are bold statements. What an oxymoron, for one to claim to be proudly Ugandan, and not vote?
The current state of Uganda's technology scene has partially been an outcome of silence. The silence has left the leaders shielded from the consequences of their actions and inactions.
The conclusions Daniel made in his post might not be wholly agreeable, but his leadership in breaking out of the silence to start the conversation, ought to be applauded.
Unfortunately, his leadership has mostly been met by reactions instead of responses, from individuals acting as officially appointed guardians of the status-quo.
The preservation of the status-quo is an insult to innovation. The heart of innovation lies in out of the box thinking. The individuals hammering the outliers thinking differently into conformity, are actually destroying the industry they intend to support.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Lastly, the silent should speak out and those reacting should respond deliberately without bias.
You say: "What an oxymoron, for one to claim to be proudly Ugandan, and not vote?"
ReplyDeleteUganda, and proudly-Ugandan Ugandans, existed before voting did. Some of us are anti-democratic, and that does not make us any less Ugandans or proudly-so. I can prove the case that democracy is not Ugandan, that it is not just bad in itself, but also that it is bad for Uganda.
You say: "The current state of Uganda's technology scene has partially been an outcome of silence. The silence has left the leaders shielded from the consequences of their actions and inactions."
The current state is the result of lining up behind people, expecting that they should do the "progress" (or whatever). The very idea that, in the Ugandan technology scene, there are effectual leaders who would be lulled into inefficiency by the silence of the practitioners is a sign of the problem. It is better to complain that the World economy is squeezing the salaries of technologists, than it is to complain that people have been too quiet and therefore the leaders too inert.
This, in fact, is one serious negative consequence of a democratised culture (for all such cultures evolve to glorify noisy apathy and they choke and denigrate minority movements).
Dio,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, thank you for speaking out. I would not have been offered a different perspective into the problems affecting the community.
Our discussion has began with a disagreement on social organization and our perspectives have differed on that particular basis. Whereas I perceived the community through democratic eyes, you perceived it through a perspective of self organized tribes without central leadership.
"Uganda, and proudly-Ugandan Ugandans, existed before voting did."
The above statement is false in all entirety. Uganda came into existence as a strategy for the colonial government to organize the 54 cultures or tribes that existed in Uganda at the time.
Tribes in Uganda were organized around concepts that evolved over time. And sadly for that reason, we lack the necessary reference to support our application of those models in organizing our communities.
How would you suggest the community ought to be organized?
The book 'Beyond Civilization' is a good read for one, anti-democratic. :-)
I have found that I may actually end up reading Beyond Civilisation just for the fact that I share the author's scepticism towards the current system (even though I, seemingly unlike him, can deal with its perpetuation).
ReplyDeleteIn that regard, my views are more in line with the "Catabolic Collapse" approach, which would see, for instance, the abandonment of "Civilisation" not as the choice of a wise tribe that has seen through the lie, but rather as collapse state of a "Civilisation" that believed the lie.
On the other matter: Uganda is very old, and for most of the time the nation has existed, the very idea of a republican democracy was either unknown or plainly anathema.
That is not only a legitimate Uganda, it is the (only) legitimate Uganda.