Bickering everywhere, without solutions in sight, paradoxes, destructive subjectivities, ethnic dirt, maliciousness, utter disrespect of differences, inability to withstand honest disagreements, have now become as authentically Ethiopian as the Aromatic Ethiopian coffee. 

I ask again, which way are we going? Left, right, neither left nor right, middle, whatever the lines of political thought may be, are not on contemporary Ethiopia�s radar screen. Intellectuals, religious leaders, even the youth have now become partisans who cannot see straight. 

The compounded ills of the nation cannot be a single person�s doing. True, a leader does set the tone. But it takes an entire nation, to say yes, or say no, or simply stay put. When a leader sets the wrong tone, then it is the duty of the citizens to start the engines of revolt and revolution guided by the right organizing principle, at the right time, to the right degree, with the right tools and for the right reason. 

What is the organizing principle of both the regime in power and the opposition? 
Do we have an organizing principle at all? 

Or is our organizing principle, simply hate shrouded by what I have called many years ago, destructive ethnicity.

In the absence of an organizing principle, both the regime in power, and any future regime cannot exact lasting changes but they will both leave huge deposits of hate, which will push the Ethiopia of the future to remain in a state of war and at the mercy of refuses and handouts from the West. 

I suggest once again that all those who are flooding the airwaves take the notion of MATT seriously, translate the concept in to our native languages and let the people choose their future leaders not by their ethnic garbs but by the depth of their thoughts and their infusion of MAAT in their character and soul structure. 

I challenge all those who are writing in the air waves to respond to the calls of MAAT, Africa�s ancient language of moral intelligence. 

Teodros Kiros (PhD)