I woke up to ‘not so good’ cartoons about this fallen soldier and I felt the need to share these views which I hope turn out understandable enough to ease our nerves whether now or in the future when we meet other people of his kind.
However, the exercise of having to invest ourselves in the extraction of that good (which is really inevitably wrapped by nature) is what we hate that instead of devising ways of enjoying the study, we pick the entire plant and throw it away.
But that constantly works against us especially in a democracy where it’s paramount that we invest ourse9in comprehending human nature because democracy literally means the rule of the people although we the people are as different as the number of people that we are.
In a biblical David is a killer but also a man doing all he has to in service of the God after whom his heart is.
There are so many ways to know what makes people comfortable if we intend to make them feel so and equally what would save us from clashing with them if we mean to coexist. Coexistence doesn’t mean that we should be the same or behave the same. It’s very very important that we be and keep different.
I have a friend Lockheed Martin who often asks me “what’s this peace around you?” (And a couple of other friends ask similar questions but I have only sought his permission for this post).
I equally remember what some of the feelings people had about my post on the Gen. Kyaliginza incident with a female traffic officer.
I have usually smiled my friends’ questions away because the answer is quite as hard as it is easy.
Coexistence is something we attain by an exchange of courtesy (to put it lightly).
However, to have to do that accurately, we have to invest in understanding others and we like to be understood with respect to how different we are.
Such efforts have (in the 21st century) turned out to even be anchorage to the western civilisation and empire.
This journey of interconnectedness which we can afford to attain by merely writing some words on facebook and then have them read by billions of others who are millions of miles away, began as some hopeless little journeys on small ships having to cross the seas for months or years before they got to their destinations by explorers.
They were making an effort to know who else lived where the seas ended.
Then the ships and boats brought writers and the writers walked amongst us, slept with our goats, trekked on our continent for years just to write reports that described our faces, hairs, noses, heights, cultures, attitudes name it.
It was these things were done many centuries before now that facilitated the efficiency of those nations amongst us till today.
One of the many answers I have always shied away from whenever Martin asked is that, I believe every human needs the best surrounding to enable the best in him which is an observation I made as I tried to figure out why our part of the world lags behind in everything.
So I have found peace in trying to understand how we differ, why we differ and the meaning of what I find.
Among the many things that can enable out understanding of others without having to explain to each other what does or doesn’t make us comfortable is our biology, physiology, philosophy among others.
One of the most obvious things (among so many other things again) is our Hair (and everything about it) and the texture of our nails.
The textures of our hair are a very good feature that explains how we think, how we see things and feel about things because it is all informed by many factors including brain activity which a lot of times means the biochemistry going on inside our systems.
If one’s hair tips curl towards the scalp, it means something, if the tips curl but face outwards, if the strands are spiking off if it’s straight off the scalp but the tips gently face outside it all means something. And there is everything in science to explain all of this phenomena in fact there are many sciences dedicated to the understanding of these features.
Forgive me that i have to avoid the details because this will turn out to be too lengthy.
No one has to be CIA or an informant of some governments to understand this. It’s why people write, why we inquire, why research exists. To comprehend things, break heavy things into manageable grains, to facilitate human coexistence. Europeans used these descriptions to decide which of their countries colonized which part of the world in line with their capacities and abilities.
We may brand it whatever we like as long as we can remember it was and still can be used to make decisions about (y)our country whenever it gets necessary.
At the time of these decisions, Europe had been invested in understanding the literature recovered from other parts of the world during the renaissance especially a case in point being Greece.
Such literature included concepts like Ontology (The study of being), epistemology (theory of knowing, just as ontology is the science of being It answers the general question, ‘What is knowing and the known?’, phrenology (concerning skulls) e.t.c phrenology inspired the measurement of the noses of the citizens in Rwanda by Belgians and hence the genocide because they feared the impact of the solar activities that erupted in 2012).
These concepts gave birth to others like oxiology (the study of the nature of value and valuation, and of the kinds of things that are valuable).
In the spirit of the above, I think to brand Kasirye Ggwanga the way we have constantly branded him is to get it wrong and unsustainable for the concept of change and societal transformation.
He, like many other people, was a good man whose goodness just happened to be unconventional and then we happened to be a people not so okay with bothering ourselves so much as to acknowledge difference because it pushes us beyond the boundaries of our comfort zones.
It’s part of civilization and growth to be able to bend, accept the challenge of exploring the unknown and unusual, get to see through what’s unconventional and appreciate it as good because it’s daring into an inquisition and therefore better understanding.
So when you find an artist in a scattered surrounding, it may not be because he is disorganized. Right in the middle of that disorder is where his order has to be born. He just needs a moment to surgically see what to remove and what to leave to have an end that tells a story born of his intuition and nuance less of which he would be a butterfly without wings.
When you find a scientist in isolation, it’s not because he is selfish, it’s because he must be able to question his doing, insult himself once in a while, appreciate himself occasionally and it’s all a journey to an end the artist might need.
When you find a geologist buried in durst, it’s not because she is naturally dirty. To know, smell, touch, and sometimes taste the soils gives him an accurate understanding of the answers he is looking for.
And on all occasions, what they require of us is to stand back, be quiet and tell them we enjoy their mess. Sometimes they need that to excel which also might mean, to give us what we can’t give to our selves.
We must be careful to know that, the exaggeration of conventional good can mean to be extremely stagnating, dangerous and disgusting.
So Kasirye Ggwanga has records of mistakes as he has those of good but they should and ought to be taken as those made by each one of us and not made to look like he was some strange crazy being that wasn’t one of us.
He was in so many ways one of us, he just happened to be different in character which was genetic and effected by the orientation of the military.
May the Lord grant his soul eternal rest.
Salutations to you Maj.Gen.Kasirye Ggwanga.
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