High Time for Dostoewsky !

These days, while his native region, the beautiful Moscow, a melting point

where events of hundred modes and qualities have taken place in history,

is glowing through the heat of its burning periphery forests, it became my

high time to make myself busy on Dostoevsky writings, which read like any

relevant literature of today. I had the pleasure of being entertained superbly

by his "Notes from Underground" these days. This sort of stuff, full of irony

and cabaret of the finest art, with all the lows and highs of sentimentalisms

and affect, with its artistically beautiful assault on the unconscious pomposity

of man, a cabaret on the human condition in its blindfolded search for authenticity

and meaning, seems to fit tremendously to these days of our Ethiopian

„democracy parody" and disorientation; after all the turmoil and farce of the

current Ethiopian political election has gone over.

Even if you may have had your Dostoevsky's lessons long ago, I think

you would enjoy some of the nuances, you may have missed

to appreciate in times past.

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In my opinion and experience, moreover Rene Girard's interpretation

of Dostoevsky's literature is also very relevant and valuable for our times.

Find the link below: "Notes from Underground" including Girard's appraisal.

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Just to remind you, I made the following point several weeks ago:

Rene Girard's mimesis theory is I think, very useful for understanding Aggression,

violence and conflict....etc...I can only underline most of the substance of this

theory...making a mental revue of the several notes I made during my

own observations and "intuitions out of the blues" under intensive circumstances

and, --let me call it- "phenomenological experience" too.

I am sure "the Ethiopian revolution and the Ethiopian student movement"

all through is full of such material...but most of it has perhaps not the "fate

or the fortune" of surviving the process…..in a form of literature like else

where... so that the next generation could have learnt from it.

Nonetheless....since the theory...and scholar observation makes IT in such a way

available...I hope the coming generation may benefit from it...if we indicate them its

where-abouts......That is also my intention here. Hoping it will fetch and find the right

mind to learn from the past....But as you are certainly observing the whole

phenomena....the Ethiopian elite...the Ethiopian polity is still submerged in the

"Schlamssel"/ in the mess.

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However, I remain hoping that one day, looking at their mirrors, our

“heroes” would also dare to smile at their own pictures to make the leap

of taking their “enemies” (imagined) into account rather than themselves.

"Notes from Underground" ....