Comments on: An Open Letter to the Organic Intellectuals accross the Horn of Africa http://assimbablog.assimba.org/2008/01/30/an-open-letter-to-the-organic-intellectuals-accross-the-horn-of-africa/ Registration required to post at this blog. No need to register to comment. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:42:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Obo Arada Shawl http://assimbablog.assimba.org/2008/01/30/an-open-letter-to-the-organic-intellectuals-accross-the-horn-of-africa/#comment-28 Obo Arada Shawl Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:23:42 +0000 http://assimbablog.assimba.org/2008/01/30/an-open-letter-to-the-organic-intellectuals-accross-the-horn-of-africa/#comment-28 Dear Professor! Your call is noble but the question is why now and how to go about it? Please, show us the way! In the mean time, would you explain the following three points. 1.What do you believe i.e that government or capitalism is the cause for our poverty/problem? 2.Is there a contradiction between your complaiant that we are going into our "mothers' wombs" with that of calling your friends? 3.I do not see why you worry about your personal friends when the issue is about nation and nation states? Dear Professor!

Your call is noble but the question is why now and how to go about it? Please, show us the way!

In the mean time, would you explain the following three points.
1.What do you believe i.e that government or capitalism is the cause for our poverty/problem?
2.Is there a contradiction between your complaiant that we are going into our “mothers’ wombs” with that of calling your friends?
3.I do not see why you worry about your personal friends when the issue is about nation and nation states?

]]> By: ewinatu yeferad http://assimbablog.assimba.org/2008/01/30/an-open-letter-to-the-organic-intellectuals-accross-the-horn-of-africa/#comment-22 ewinatu yeferad Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:23:34 +0000 http://assimbablog.assimba.org/2008/01/30/an-open-letter-to-the-organic-intellectuals-accross-the-horn-of-africa/#comment-22 Thank you very much Professor Mesfin for starting this important discussion. We are in crisis. We have to really around responsible intellectual. I believe there are only two possible escapes that can save Ethiopians from organized mayhems of our dark potential- the side that has given the crusades, watchaunts, enslavement, and geocide. Our moral decency provides one necessary ingredient, but it is not merely enough. The other must from the rational side of our morality. For, unless we rigorously use human reason both to discover and to acknowledge nature's factualty, and to follow the logical implication for effective human action that such knowledge entails, we will lose out to the threatening force of irrationality, romanticism, uncompromising "true" beliefs, and apparent inevitability mob action(Kenya is a good example). Reason is our potenial salvation from the vicious mass action that rules. Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism, and, therefore, one of the keys to human, social and civil decency Prof. Mesfin I would be surprise if you don't remember that New york has been the breeding ground for such dishonest intellectuals. Thank you very much Professor Mesfin for starting this important discussion. We are in crisis. We have to really around responsible intellectual. I believe there are only two possible escapes that can save Ethiopians from organized mayhems of our dark potential- the side that has given the crusades, watchaunts, enslavement, and geocide. Our moral decency provides one necessary ingredient, but it is not merely enough. The other must from the rational side of our morality. For, unless we rigorously use human reason both to discover and to acknowledge nature’s factualty, and to follow the logical implication for effective human action that such knowledge entails, we will lose out to the threatening force of irrationality, romanticism, uncompromising “true” beliefs, and apparent inevitability mob action(Kenya is a good example). Reason is our potenial salvation from the vicious mass action that rules. Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism, and, therefore, one of the keys to human, social and civil decency
Prof. Mesfin I would be surprise if you don’t remember that New york has been the breeding ground for such dishonest intellectuals.

]]> By: Bekalu Tegegne http://assimbablog.assimba.org/2008/01/30/an-open-letter-to-the-organic-intellectuals-accross-the-horn-of-africa/#comment-21 Bekalu Tegegne Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:46:32 +0000 http://assimbablog.assimba.org/2008/01/30/an-open-letter-to-the-organic-intellectuals-accross-the-horn-of-africa/#comment-21 It is a grand idea from a generation that never betrayed its cause for its people. Thank you Dr. Mesfine. It is a grand idea from a generation that never betrayed its cause for its people. Thank you Dr. Mesfine.

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