Ponderings of the Man from Mpofana...

Africa once existed without election processes, this was during the time of monarchies. Instead of electing a head of state, there was a royal family which would rule the land. Now, I can understand how being ruled by a king today can sound strange to some but it has it's benefits & disadvantages as does democracy. People who dislike democracy are often accused of being against majority interests i. e. dictators. Yes, you can claim " The majority is stupid. " But under democracy, uncorrupted democracy , the majority gets the leaders they deserve & democracy can coexist with monarchy as with many lands worldwide. The king can select his prime minister & ministers, the people can elect their parliamentary representatives.  If you get rid of democracy, people will still need to have their voices heard somehow & the diversity of ways people choose to express themselves without elections can be chaotic. You would rather meet with the people & their represe...

When something or someone gains fame or infamy, there comes a time where that something or someone wants to parody or reject it's fame & become a copy or a counter-personality of it's former self forgetting that the present is not the past. Essentially, becoming a fake or anti-personality of a former self. Your obsession in 2005 was not exactly the same thing in 2017 & it's not always because you grew to resent whatever you no longer like, you just grew out of it. That's the problem with fame, it sees an image of the past as the present & it forces people to be frauds.

A nation often starts out as a family/group of families which expand across a land. They then either assimilate into larger groups or overpower smaller groups. Migrating clans that settle among this nation usually assimilate or usurp the ruling class of the people's lands they come to. Once groups of people become stabilised in a region their governance usually centralises & through intermarriage, a distinct phenotype of that nation develops. A culture, language & sometimes regional dialects form depending on how centralised or decentralized the culture of the people is.  This has usually been the case throughout human history unless a form of separation is law. Then, because of forced separation, two or more clashing identities form & in time these identity groups form their own countries or one identity rises to power across the whole land & crushes the other groups.  A people of the same land often become a unified nation, in time despite having ...