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Tragedy Of Insanity (based On 'the Madness Of Didi By Obi Egbuna) by JimsonJaat001(m): 7:28am On Jan 23, 2016
A man looks into the mirror
Sees a pink man,tells himself it is a white man
And on the basis of this conception,he proceeds
To impose himself and imagined superiority on the rest of humanity
Where he meets with opposition
He resorts to brutality and violence
Even if it means;
Abuse of hospitality,enslavement
And senseless murder of native populations.

What is between Institution and what is being institutionalised?
I want to know why a man leaves his own home
Goes to another man's homeland
And start plundering and murdering with impunity
Tell me
What makes a man to capture millions of people
From a continent that belong to him not
Drag them away in chains as slaves
And continue this act for double hundred years.

Then genuinely believe the victims of his savagery to be savages
Rather than himself
To know how a man can be conscious of the fact he butchered
And dehumanized more human being than any other man in this planet
Yet,he is totally convinced that he is the champion of such noble ideas
As freedom,democracy and respect for human dignity
I talked of all these,he talked of schools,church and tarred roads in defence
To me,it is a number of tame
Or,alas! An introduction to a new slave-trade!

Distort conception!
On distort conception he stands his belief
Would he have his usuall laugh and smile if it is practise on his kind?
I mean,would he welcome tinniest model of it?
I was told that the tragedy of insanity
Is that a patient afflicted with a sickness
Does not know that he is sick
Call a madman to his face,he either dismiss you as a joker
Or,had he had a gun,he dismiss you as the crank.

But,I think if you reproduce his act of madness on a small scale
Isolate it for his inspection,and make him the judge
There is a chance he can see the act of absurdity.
I ask
How does Civilization reacts when it confront its own image in the mirror?
I want to know whether what we call modern Western Civilization is
In the final analysis,the hallucination of a schizophrenic race
To demystify racism,to put sanity in the dock
And if,sanity is gulty of insanity,if modern man is guilty of madness.

All above,all are words of one of my literary ancestors
He also said that he is a scientist of existence
He added that he is not judging them
But giving the an opportunity to judge themselves
He murdered six of them as examples for our millions
He was tried at their court and found guilty
They have judged themselves on that trial
Any verdict they bring on me is a verdict on themselves
A verdict on Civilization by custodians of civilization.

- Jimson Jaat Taofik

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