Historical Moment

Ideologues, I find, are the often makers of the Absurd.  Sometimes we suffer at their hands; sometimes we can smile.

In South Africa, we had from 1948 to the early 1990s, the system of social engineering variously called apartheid, Separate Development, Plural Democracies and so on.  For some it would be a contradition, for some a paradox and for some plain absurdity that our national motto was  UNITY IS STRENGTH .