{UAH} THE VULGAR-POLITICAL STELLA VS SELF CENTERED ANDREW MWENDA
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Among the big three:sex, religion and politics, I try not to post on sex for religious and cultural reasons, but Andrew Mwenda's response to Dr.Stella Nyanzi has kind of tickled me a little bit.Mwenda has leapt on her and everyone openly supporting Besigye like a mother lion leapt on those threatening her cubs.His posts increasingly sound rude, self centered and belligerent.He comes across as a crusader who savagely attacks anyone who has the gall to question his words. Actually, If we didnt have phonies like him, we probably could get on with our problems of living with dictator Museveni in peace. I'm sure if Stella wasn't writing about Mrs.Museveni, life among supposedly NRM commentators would have continued as normal as having breakfast in the morning. Every time somebody posts about the Musevenis somebody always gets all bent. Its silly man!
Mwenda is known recently for writing 'faaaaa' as exemplified by his fake TVO intelligence. Several people questioned his TVO allegations and,without any evidence worth of salt being cited, he went ahead to accuse Robert Shaka,myself, et al, of being frauds,cowards,and FDC radical extremists.Fortunately I'm not exactly a newbie to such childish attacks and have grown a thick skin throughout the years but I can understand how such mindless ranting and raging can be distressing to some. I sometimes ignore people who seem to be on a streak of bad temper, but if they are a regular I always go back to reading their posts after I think they may have had time to calm down a bit.
I learned a long time ago that my friends and I may not necessarily like the same people.And that's ok. I don't believe anyone should be required to find value in the same people I value in order to be my friend.I sincerely hope that if some people do decide that they like Stella's posts,whom Andrew happen to dislike, that he will not think they have taken sides or feel that we don't find him valuable, valid and helpful as well.I generally like to sift through whatever people post, keep what I need, and discard the rest, no matter who it is that's offering it.
That's why I still dont understand why some people are concentrating on Stella's 'vulgarity' more than the issues she raised.Anyway, Life is vulgar sometimes,should we hide that part? Should we pretend it's not there? Well, Shakespeare is dirty, vulgar, if he's done right.Instead, we excise, elide, etc. all the vulgar content and leave a bunch of flowery speeches instead. In the USA, a lady called Illma Gore recently released a video:'how To Draw Trump's penis', and so far it has generated over 3 million viewers on Facebook.Can you imagine anybody making fun of Museveni's penis in Uganda and get away with it?
Anyway,what's more vulgar? Mentioning 'Nalongo owenene Vs Owentono' or showing how some people get off on making a mess of our country in the name of 'I sacrificed'. 'i'm a revolutionary', 'i forgive you',e.t.c? Vulgar comes from a root word meaning popular, common, etc.That's how we get the term "Vulgate" used for the Bible.True, up to a point, vulgar may have relative meanings.One can argue that everything written in Italian is vulgar simply by the fact that it's not Latin.But that's stretching the word historically.Clearly, Stella's language is vulgar, if you compare it with Joachim Buwembo's language in his posts, but you cant deny her super creative writing.I would say that her posts enriche or enhance the sexual humor that is usually kept in bedrooms, and its not a style Ugandans have experienced before. So it turns out that when Andrew wrote "vulgar," he meant nothing more than 'popular'?
Shakespeare was, in this sense, almost certainly a genius, since his apparently spontaneous integration of so many levels of verbal dexterity has been virtually unequalled in the history of the world's creative activity; not even the Greeks, I should add, combined both tragic and comic sensibilities the way Shakespeare did: I mean it's almost scary the way that man could go from masterful prose to masterful poetry; from vulgar jests to sublime rhetoric; from comic buffoonery to tragic pathos with effortless assurance.
On television, I once heard someone say in reference to Alan Turing:"You can always tell a genius from just a very intelligent person.When a very intelligent person comes up with a bright idea, you say to yourself,'I might have thought of that.' You never get that with a genius."
Alan Turing, by the way, was a British logician/mathematician who helped solve the Nazi Enigma code (which, despite what Hollywood would have us believe, was not solved by the Americans; although it turns out the Poles had a good deal more to do with it than the British let on) and also foreshadowed the digital computer in his theories.
Basically, all im saying is that Andrew is setting up a false opposition here, like the proverbial apples and oranges.The real opposition is between GOOD and BAD.Dictatorship is simply bad,and freedom of speech is good. Stella is just a woman frustrated with everything going on in Uganda, and that is reflected in her writing, and i think she's doing something good.
Byebyo ebyange banange!
--
*Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba*
Stalk my blog at: http://semuwemba.com/
"My journey is long and my preparation is so little, and weakness has gripped me and death is chasing me!"
-- Among the big three:sex, religion and politics, I try not to post on sex for religious and cultural reasons, but Andrew Mwenda's response to Dr.Stella Nyanzi has kind of tickled me a little bit.Mwenda has leapt on her and everyone openly supporting Besigye like a mother lion leapt on those threatening her cubs.His posts increasingly sound rude, self centered and belligerent.He comes across as a crusader who savagely attacks anyone who has the gall to question his words. Actually, If we didnt have phonies like him, we probably could get on with our problems of living with dictator Museveni in peace. I'm sure if Stella wasn't writing about Mrs.Museveni, life among supposedly NRM commentators would have continued as normal as having breakfast in the morning. Every time somebody posts about the Musevenis somebody always gets all bent. Its silly man!
Mwenda is known recently for writing 'faaaaa' as exemplified by his fake TVO intelligence. Several people questioned his TVO allegations and,without any evidence worth of salt being cited, he went ahead to accuse Robert Shaka,myself, et al, of being frauds,cowards,and FDC radical extremists.Fortunately I'm not exactly a newbie to such childish attacks and have grown a thick skin throughout the years but I can understand how such mindless ranting and raging can be distressing to some. I sometimes ignore people who seem to be on a streak of bad temper, but if they are a regular I always go back to reading their posts after I think they may have had time to calm down a bit.
I learned a long time ago that my friends and I may not necessarily like the same people.And that's ok. I don't believe anyone should be required to find value in the same people I value in order to be my friend.I sincerely hope that if some people do decide that they like Stella's posts,whom Andrew happen to dislike, that he will not think they have taken sides or feel that we don't find him valuable, valid and helpful as well.I generally like to sift through whatever people post, keep what I need, and discard the rest, no matter who it is that's offering it.
That's why I still dont understand why some people are concentrating on Stella's 'vulgarity' more than the issues she raised.Anyway, Life is vulgar sometimes,should we hide that part? Should we pretend it's not there? Well, Shakespeare is dirty, vulgar, if he's done right.Instead, we excise, elide, etc. all the vulgar content and leave a bunch of flowery speeches instead. In the USA, a lady called Illma Gore recently released a video:'how To Draw Trump's penis', and so far it has generated over 3 million viewers on Facebook.Can you imagine anybody making fun of Museveni's penis in Uganda and get away with it?
Anyway,what's more vulgar? Mentioning 'Nalongo owenene Vs Owentono' or showing how some people get off on making a mess of our country in the name of 'I sacrificed'. 'i'm a revolutionary', 'i forgive you',e.t.c? Vulgar comes from a root word meaning popular, common, etc.That's how we get the term "Vulgate" used for the Bible.True, up to a point, vulgar may have relative meanings.One can argue that everything written in Italian is vulgar simply by the fact that it's not Latin.But that's stretching the word historically.Clearly, Stella's language is vulgar, if you compare it with Joachim Buwembo's language in his posts, but you cant deny her super creative writing.I would say that her posts enriche or enhance the sexual humor that is usually kept in bedrooms, and its not a style Ugandans have experienced before. So it turns out that when Andrew wrote "vulgar," he meant nothing more than 'popular'?
Shakespeare was, in this sense, almost certainly a genius, since his apparently spontaneous integration of so many levels of verbal dexterity has been virtually unequalled in the history of the world's creative activity; not even the Greeks, I should add, combined both tragic and comic sensibilities the way Shakespeare did: I mean it's almost scary the way that man could go from masterful prose to masterful poetry; from vulgar jests to sublime rhetoric; from comic buffoonery to tragic pathos with effortless assurance.
On television, I once heard someone say in reference to Alan Turing:"You can always tell a genius from just a very intelligent person.When a very intelligent person comes up with a bright idea, you say to yourself,'I might have thought of that.' You never get that with a genius."
Alan Turing, by the way, was a British logician/mathematician who helped solve the Nazi Enigma code (which, despite what Hollywood would have us believe, was not solved by the Americans; although it turns out the Poles had a good deal more to do with it than the British let on) and also foreshadowed the digital computer in his theories.
Basically, all im saying is that Andrew is setting up a false opposition here, like the proverbial apples and oranges.The real opposition is between GOOD and BAD.Dictatorship is simply bad,and freedom of speech is good. Stella is just a woman frustrated with everything going on in Uganda, and that is reflected in her writing, and i think she's doing something good.
Byebyo ebyange banange!
--
*Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba*
Stalk my blog at: http://semuwemba.com/
"My journey is long and my preparation is so little, and weakness has gripped me and death is chasing me!"
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