"Ethiopia" as "Africa" is an idea -- and remain as such. The real or my Ethiopia must just accompany the dream of Ethiopia. The ideal should not be replaced by the known, but live its own life. And it's never one or another, but both.
Both should be preserved in their own forms of the dream and the real.
There is plenty of space for both to grow where they belong.
How do they co-exist? They dance.
Never compare one with another -- they both is life.
They die without each other.
And this is my definition of death -- when one is lost. Life without dream, or dreams without living...
Project Utopia
summer 2007 thoughts ...
Emperor Haile Selassie I [ video, left ]
If you read my non-Ethiopian pages, you know that I use PoMo (postmodern) thinkers to understand myself. Alas, I never applied PM philosophy to Ethiopia!
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Why not, as they like to say nowadays.
... What makes one an Ethiopian?
What is "Ethiopia" for the rest of the world?
Look what Rastafari took from it!
Ethiopia XXI is a thought... for my ETHIOblog, some kind of summation for ten years of webbing about it.
Anatoly XXI
Haile Selassie & Empress Menen [ another web-video for analysis ]
... Ethiopian semiotics (see my film pages on theory) -- simple questions, the lion replaced by star and the emblematic significance. "Faceless" after-communism existence... no new symbols.
... [ to continue ]
[ too many "extra" things on my pages -- like Markato ]
... new and news? Everything is new and big news. I am new and must respect it. Notice and recognize it.
* each month (13 -- EM calendars) = new title [ list ]
* issue : Ethiopian or Diaspora (or PoMo Itiopia)
* ... Lul-Addis [ "Addis" -- a shows? ]
... I am not updating HIM directory {Virtual Ethiopia], not even Diaspora [sellassie.vtheatre.net], but the third web wave -- ethio.vtheatre.net [Addis] in preparation for opening LUL :
Imperial Ethiopia & Today : colors, shapes, signs...
