Dear Mamer Deng Jur
5 min readBy Biar John, South Sudan
May 17, 2015 (SSB) —- I am sorry that it took so long to respond to you. I could not respond to you in time as I had just run out of internet. But luckily I had it back in the morning, and I was able to write this piece for you.
Before I get to the point, I have to tell you that I am one of those who do not react to situations quickly. I have ignored lots of mischievous cyber behavior for a long time. I don’t easily respond to cyber things that are annoying; maybe I should be called a lazy bastard for being such sluggish. Or I am not good at quickly analysing hidden attacks on myself. Or maybe I am one of those who learn things late and I may acquire the moniker “The late Bloomer” as a result.
To get into the point my friend, I am one of those who write to self-entertain. I don’t write regularly, but when I am bored I entertain myself by writing. And as you might have read everything I post, they are sometimes full of grammatical errors, other times not. That should be enough to tell you how not serous I am with whatever I post. However, some of those who read them don’t take them for what they are. They serve a different purpose for them.
Recently, I wrote a piece in which my analysis was on south Sudan chaotic political system in which there are a lot of political ambiguities in many political spheres including constituency representation. Within that article, I talked about how most of the MPs were hand-picked when those proposed by their constituencies were deemed to be political unfit by the political the bogeyman. And by bogeyman, I was referring to the higher ranking SPLM members, who when communities choose their leaders, will jump in and oppose them, and then put their preferred ones.
I, then, concluded with how South Sudan is a system of hegemony or a style of leadership where one can pull off some sort of control and power of over a group that is addicted to having him in leadership. And as result of that piece, an attacking piece of article came out just a few days later.
The article had some of the following contents:
“Our empty criticisms, their habits of nagging the president or system with the same opinions convey nothing than misusing freedom of expression. My brothers, the mind-numbing thoughts of dying of AIDS or hepatitis B, must worry us a lot than logging on our Facebook’s accounts to rant on the president or ministers.
Until we confront ourselves and correct our mistakes, which we avoid all the times, then all the hard talks or writings in which we condemn the elders and South Sudan’s government officials are just meaningless indulgence.
Our rants about president are escapism. Our notions of being the alternatives are myths. Our Facebook’s statuses are avoidance of our families’ issues.
Changing ourselves is the easiest and most beneficial contribution we’d ever done to our lives and to our beloved country.”
And you Mamer replied, and I believe my mind can’t fail me, that you hope they (those opinion writers) will learn from the writer.
When I wrote another article in which I talked about people writing articles based on hearsays and gossips, which was in direct reference to your friend’s libelling opinion writers as night club guys who should first work on themselves rather than attacking elderly, you wrote the following piece:
“Reply to your article about GM seeds. Your thoughts and analysis were bright and meaningful, I wish that, many of us could reform their writing of ‘hearsay’, which are baseless; and write critically about issues, which will affected us in short and long terms.
Well I know many people do really enjoy reading those nonsenses political opinions, which is fair enough in my mind. But it is pretty good if those nonsense were considered by those ‘filthy and evil politicians and their followers.
Smartest countries know exactly what they grow, eat, drink, and smoke, likewise smartest people know what they eat, drink, and smoke. But dumb ‘KNOW no none’.
To retired, I think that 95% of opinion articles posted to Paanluelwel are based on ‘hearsay’ political activities, which they don’t even articulate wel
I am advising many authors including myself to write like Kur Wel Kur, and Paanluel wel. No hard feeling if you don’t like my suggestion.
For that reason, I think many of us are just bunch of ‘ANIMAL FARM’. ‘Can’t think for themselves.”
In your yesterday’s post, it appears that you are treating my post as being out of context, even when you know that your friend began the whole thing by indirectly attacking my piece, and it is evidenced by the above excerpt.
And you were the first to come out and start defending your friend after seeing the word “bombastic “in my post article, which you believed was a nonsensical opinion piece. It was then followed by another comment from your friend, which was of self-defensive nature, that everyone knows how he writes.
You, together, started defending each other straight after seeing my post, which was an indication that you had attacked me, and then start anticipating something to come from me. If you didn’t know what you have been, together, doing, how you could have just jumped to the defence of each other without asking exactly what was going on.
I hope you are not trying to whitewash the whole thing by pretending to be the ones being taunted. And I hope you will come out with a better explanation, due. Since day one, your friend has been an astray loose cannon, and all along side, you have been cheering him up as he maim people with articles full of hidden mischief.
And to let you know dudes, I am not a nightclub guy as you and your friend would have imagined. I wonder how you came to that conclusion.
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