By Dr. Abasher Elhaj
Freedom, prosperity, and sovereignty are solely taken by risking and austerity life, only thus is it tried and proved that the essential nature of self-consciousness is not bare existence, is not the merely immediate form in which it first makes its appearance. People, who have not staked their life, may, no doubt, be recognized as people; but personally feel they have not amounted to the fact of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.
The importance to take the plunge of a person’s life in a battle for leverage can only be apprehended if we ponder more deeply of the meaning of human freedom. Here freedom does not mean to live in nature or according to it; it rather begins only where nature ends. The same is true for Sudanese who are right now naturally and freely living in revolutionary state; this implies that we are not really free, as we are hitherto blustery, unless the locution “Freedom, Peace, and Equity” ends into actions and concrete accommodation then we can be able to transcend our natural existence, and create a new self and identity for ourselves. The emblematic setting-off of self-creation is to fight tooth and nail for pure prestige. For people were not born equal, some would never push themselves to their own limits. Such kind of people never takes the initiative to climb up Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, they just satisfy with the physiological and safety needs, Alain Deneault has negatively coined a term for them ‘stable people’ in his book “Mediocrities’.
Morality involves a distinction between what is better and what is worse. This seems to violate democratic principle; it is for this reason that the opponents of democracy and civil life became concerned above all for their own personal health and safety. Those opponents did not have the morals to put apart better from worse- all loots were for Caesar, nothing for God and His slaves was prescribed. Consequently, living void of ethics and morals gets you astray and fugitives at the end of the story- easy come easy go, and nobody sympathizes with somebody in society who was selfish and not reliable, and caused agony and tantalization for the poor when fortune went off easily!
The previous epoch suffered a lot from dependency syndrome on foreign aid. Unfortunately, they were uprooted leaving zero balance, but two days ago there was a silver lining where Sudan’s Partnership Conference was virtually held in Germany. It is not an end, but a means by which it can prompt Sudan to crawl its way through the bushy and brushy remains of eternal divorce of Islamist. It is just a trigger since depending on the outside topples the independence and internal decision making capacity of a country and contributes to further weaken any social bases. This is a fact known for any Ted, Tom, and Jack, regardless of a person as the Prime Minister, whose charisma and functionality transmitted and flirted among spheres, such a mentality definitely applies the method of “Stoop to conquer”.
To pass our chronic calamity, I think calling for a haul of civil society to support the government is amust and not to put it bluntly. In civil society there is no fear of closing space which is a result of a lack of connectivity, legitimacy, and relevance of social organizations to the larger population. Luckily, the digital age has disrupted the power balance between state and citizens, and has made sovereignty and enshrinement more elastic and narrows the closing space. It thus makes power seem fluid and shifting. That is why authoritative regimes have at various times restricted the Internet access, like what happened in the disperse of the sit-in when the military junta has disconnected the Internet for a month. This act usually discloses governments hostile to civil society, fearful of greater transparency and detecting ill-got gain by corrupt government official.
Civil social organizations tell us where we were, where we are, and most important speculate about where we will likely be. It is an attempt to arm the country political thought with new fundamental theoretical arguments to reinforce society practical actions. Public opinion data offer an intriguing possibility as a tool to understand what masses think, know, and experience of human rights. The data can be used to help reform projects and build up society resilience and efficacy. Moreover, these data reinforce social ties with the government they are meant to serve through social- marketing campaigns. For example, the initiative that has recently been launched by the Ministry of Finance under the name “My Commodity” to combat markets greediness. In spite of the efforts done by ‘Resistance Staff’ during the calamity of Covid-19, anecdotal evidence suggests that efforts to smirch the ‘RS’, which has refashioned the term “Solidarity” to increase engagement with civil society across the country and push back when repressive measures are taken; however, some individuals do not have a sense of what works best in terms of engagement and rapid response.
In sum, if each one of us understands the essence of civil life, we will be able to patronize our civilization by living in tranquility, prosperity, and hug the appropriateness that each of us can contribute to our country.
hajabasher@gmai.com