It is not a war of guns and bombs. Neither is it a war of the pen and the sword. It is a war of words, slung for political point-scoring, with the hope that a mindless black electorate will be won over by the facade that is our current political leadership and vote them back into government come 2014. It is a war that bases itself on the premise that black South Africans are insane. An insanity born from our collective bad habit of voting for the ANC.
In my moments of naivety, I question the necessity of government, and why governments in Africa particularly are so badly run. On the verge of becoming an anarchist and wholeheartedly deciding that governments are an unnecessary evil, I came across a definition of what government is that struck a chord. Tim O'Reilly defines government, at its core, to be about doing together that which we cannot do alone. It is within this context that I now understand how deeply flawed our national psyche is in relation to our government. We do not vote a party or person into power. We vote them into service. We need a radical shift in our national thinking. A shift away from the flawed premise that we are subjects to the power of the government to the understanding that the government is subject to our power.
