This man has 'eaten' from the Tree of Knowledge...or so he thinks. With that major success of liberating Zimbabwe, Mugabe has been handed the magical apple bestowing knowledge.
It's a pity that he didn't read Ishmael, or even the Leviathan, because no human has the right to say that he is above all others. Unfortunately, his path was littered with minor successes, all of them perfect little rose-tinted lenses to make him believe that his path was truly the right one to take. Killing someone, or many someones? Oh look, we've got diamonds! That's a sign that we're doing right!
He doesn't SEE the whole picture, only the pretty canvas of his 'success'.
The worst thing is that if someone manages to overthrow him, there's a possibility that the whole bloody circle will start again. A single, golden moment of freedom, of flight, then the accelerating fall in which we are fooled into believing is flight.
Scary, how more and more of Ishmael's words are leaking into real-life situations, our true life here on planet Earth.
1 comment:
It arouses my attention that you used a phrase of "This man has 'eaten' from the Tree of Knowledge" as your opening. Because I thought, Mugabe was eaten up by the Tree of Knowledge.
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