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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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