wazua wrote:Dear @Njung'e,
Your sentiments are welcome and esteemed. Other than our desire for a better Wazua, I assure you no unknown forces are at play.
You will note members harshly criticized our lack of action and we believe a cooling off period should allow us all to come back to our senses, while allowing us to identify the most vociferous offenders.
We hope to involve all members in laying down ground rules that must be strictly adhered to and enforced in future political discourse.
The Wazua spirit
The problem facing wazua admin and the conflict on the forum is most easily resolved by the golden rule. An attempt to add more rules is a clear attempt at 'running away from the problem.'
The greater the legislation, the greater the oppression, and if Wazua needs more laws then we are getting less genuine and her (wazua's) spirit is being quashed.
I think we need to re-visit the fundamentals of political relationships and apply these to present issues.
For example, politics is the art creating and sustaining human relationships that lead to the meeting of existential needs. Thus politics is about love, harmony, empathy and understanding.
If there is strife and exclusion then we have pseudo-politics. And this is what we have been seeing over the media, in our sports stadia, our neighbourhoods and homes.
For politics to thrive, the political game must be a non-zero sum game, and the limits of such a game must stretch to infinity for they depend on the power of our words. For we only have to speak, to create.
We must all be just: but what is justice? Forgiveness and restoration. For none of us is righteous, yet over and over we find ourselves playing 'judge.'
And what is truth? . . . I am you, you are me . . .
By seeing the truth we are able to love our neighbours as ourselves and engaging in authentic politics.