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In proportion as the land-claims pot becomes ever more heated, which happens right around the world, the native people are put at the center of an emotional turmoil that has produced several armed confrontations against the state which required considerable resources to bring to a conclusion without loss of life, nor is the game by any means over. The oligarchic objective is to create anarchy. It is not likely that its officers will slacken their determination to achieve that end.
Do any of the people who run the show really care who get's hurt in the process? Of course not! Hey, it's all for a good cause, for the oligarchy's wealth - anarchy it a wonderful thing for recolonialization. Let's keep at it! No, let's wake up to what is the foundation of the prosperity of society. Let's wake up to what promotes scientific and technological development on which humanity depends for its survival on the planet. The native people are not exempt from this requirement. No one is.
One of the many writers who devote their talents to the glorification of primitivism and tribalism insists in his book: The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State,*(by Basil Davidson) that the institution of the nation-state is not rooted in the background of primitive tribalism, and therefore should not be pursued by people of such roots, which includes virtually the entire population of Africa.
He is certainly correct in saying that the nation-state is not rooted in a foundation of primitive tribalism. It has a much taller foundation. Compared to the institution of the nation-sate, the historic pre-colonial tribalism is a transitional structure that had its most advanced development in the cultures of Europe where the discovery of civilization began, and the discovery of certain self-evident truths. Tribalism ended when civilization began to develop which today embraces the dimension of infinity. The tribal structure will never be able to serve as a foundation for modern large scale infrastructural development in nuclear energy, water management, high intensity agriculture, industrial production, space technologies and advanced scientific research. Its structure lacks the strength to furnish the required educational support, scientific research support, technological facilities, and economic foundation for the required infrastructure projects. A taller foundation is required, than tribalism.
And there is one more aspect that one should recognize about tribalism. As a "civic structure," which is by its nature transitional in operation, it is inherently vulnerable to abuse. This vulnerability is frequently abused to set the stage for genocide. Tribalism also shares this vulnerability with our cherished western system of democratic government that frequently becomes a front for the oligarchy, even a vehicle for dictatorship as Adolf Hitler had so well demonstrated. This vulnerability has opened the door to several devastating wars.
The tribal structure, unfortunately, especially when there is a strong ethnic component present or can be dug up by archeologists, is immensely more vulnerable to irrationalities that may be strategically whipped to create anarchy, than the western democracy is. This heightened vulnerability has been cruelly abused by the oligarchy in Africa, especially in the decades following the assassination of U.S. President J. F. Kennedy. These years started crudely with a wave of assassinations of many of Africa's new leaders, then, regressed into the mire of civil war, followed by waves of genocide arranged through the various fronts of the oligarchy. Many such operations have terrorist components built in, which strategically operate behind the ethnic-tribal cover and utilize Africa's large network of natural parks that just happen to straddle national boundaries, and of course are managed by oligarchic interests. All this powerful destabilization has been unleashed against a literally defenseless population, with the primary purpose to prevent the possible transition of the new African nations towards a higher platform of government, the only platform that offers any hope, the platform of the sovereign nation-state.
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