We Could Have Defeated Them So Easily! | Clarissa's Blog
I noticed way back “We need more efficiency and management!” always sounded to me like, “We need the noose a little tighter around our necks!” Of course, this is what happened.
I should say in relation to my earlier comment that the only reason I noticed the phenomenon or why it seemed like an aberration or defiance of common sense was that my whole cultural background was one of political and economic defiance against the British regime, which did not want to grant its colony power under a white, minority rule. So we played games and got into some high jinx. The whole point and the whole spirit that was in the air was to show that the regime could keep going despite the powers-that-be trying to block it. Improvising, rather than asking for help was considered to be very impressive by our countrymen. We all learned the psychology of making it work and defying external systems of 'law and order' to do so. Fun times -- but it makes servility particularly hard to bear.
I noticed way back “We need more efficiency and management!” always sounded to me like, “We need the noose a little tighter around our necks!” Of course, this is what happened.
I should say in relation to my earlier comment that the only reason I noticed the phenomenon or why it seemed like an aberration or defiance of common sense was that my whole cultural background was one of political and economic defiance against the British regime, which did not want to grant its colony power under a white, minority rule. So we played games and got into some high jinx. The whole point and the whole spirit that was in the air was to show that the regime could keep going despite the powers-that-be trying to block it. Improvising, rather than asking for help was considered to be very impressive by our countrymen. We all learned the psychology of making it work and defying external systems of 'law and order' to do so. Fun times -- but it makes servility particularly hard to bear.
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Anyway, this way the culture of ‘sanctions busting’ and trying to get away with things without having to go through the normal chain of command. I believe the right wing regime in power also managed to receive some war supplies via Idi Amin.
“Several Polish-made T-55 tanks destined for Idi Amin’s regime in Uganda were diverted to Rhodesia by the South Africans” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War
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