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Description. Hanzi Freinacht: "“Protopia” is another recent term, coined by futurist Kevin Kelly and it is defined as the opposite of a “Dystopia”. In Dystopia, people are stuck in some kind of recurring pattern of suffering (like George Orwell’s “foot trampling a human face — for ever”, as in 1984). A Protopian society, then ...
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1. Excerpted from Zelalem Tesfaye Sirna: "The Gadaa system is an indigenous egalitarian democratic system practiced among the Oromo nation of East Africa for the last six hundred years. Among other structural elements of Gadaa system is its legislative body commonly known as Gadaa General Assembly. The assembly takes place under a sycamore tree - a...
Zelalem Tesfaye Sirna: It is difficult to tell when exactly Gadaa system began since is seens as an intrinsic element of the indigenous Oromo's everyday lives and not an 'institution'. However, counting back the Gadaa leaders in power, now at 74th Gadaa leader and multiplying it by eight years, one can reasonably conclude it has been practised sinc...
"Discourses around the origin of democracy contain a clear binary separation between "us" and "them" which over-simplifies the complex historical evolution of political systems. In the majority of cases, "us"/"we" refer to the Occident/the West whose academics hold the ‘standard history of democracy’ to be a 'modernist', 'universalistic', epistemol...
Asefa Jalata (2012) “Gadaa (Oromo Democracy): “An Example of Classical African Civilization.” Available at: http://works.bepress.com/asafa_jalata/40(Accessed September 25, 2016).
He is the author of 25 books, including most recently '100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialisation'. He regularly comments on radio and TV in the UK, and has been interviewed by the media in Australia, Canada, the United States, Poland, Holland, Belgium and Germany."
Chapter IV: Victory of the royal monopoly at the end of the XVth to the XVIth cy. Elias stresses that the political and the economical were still fused and that production was subject to violence, not yet a 'free competitive activity'. Follows a recapitulation of the inevitability of the monopolistic process.
Definition. "By analogy with abuses based on race and gender, abuse based on rank is given the name rankism. Once you have a name for it, you see rankism at the heart of many infringements of human rights, far away or close to home. Rankism is the root cause of indignity, injustice, and unfairness. Choosing the term rankism, places the goal of ...
Lance S. Owens: "On 16 January 1916, C. G. Jung transcribed in his Black Book journal an extraordinary myth told to him by Sophia – the Lady of Wisdom. Though it remained hidden for a nearly a century, this vision was foundational to his later work. Near the end of his life, he declared that the vital task waiting our age was the remembrance ...
A two-hundred-person community lasting for two months was either too short, too small, or both for such a thing to really make sense. But these two dreams are important enough that future experiments, whether run by the Zuzalu community or by independent spinoffs, will undoubtedly make a much more concerted effort to realize them.
