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'The lesson of our history is that we humans are a predatory species with the weak being the prey or potential prey of the strong.  It is in the common basic interest of all humans, that we should all be presumed to have certain basic reasonable rights, which we are endeavouring to exercise, in our and society's best interests.  And that we should not be prevented from doing so by the unjust actions of the state, the government and/or other humans.  It being the case that the government and the state should have as the primary purpose of their being, the protection and welfare of all its citizens and sovereignty. Why, even the FFs of the United States, while on the one hand declaring that all men are born equal and with certain inalienable rights.   Had, for some incongruous reason, chosen, it appeared, to excluded the Africans who were brought to the shores of colonial America as slaves, and their descendants.   From having the 'inalienable rights' of which they spoke.

Human rights has become a clarion call for the past 70 or more years. The rights of us people to have and live a life of qualified freedom from political and other forms of oppression has become a clarion call in all parts of the world.  Prior to this, there was the declaration of the the rights of man, as penned by the British born political theorist and philosopher, Thomas Pain. And what of this 'rights' of which we speak, whether it be that which was articulated by Thomas Pain, of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights?  What is the status of our 'human rights'? The so-called Founding Fathers of the United States, while accepting the need to separate the political state or estate from the then powerful and unaccountable and non-transparent religious estate.   Would have us believe that 'human rights' are 'inalienable'.  But what does that mean, that we all have some basic rights and that they are 'inalienable'?  'Inalienable',

'What we recall of our experiences of the past, tends to be a factor of how they impacted on our senses at the time, the strength of our continuing attachment to those experiences.   And the extent to which we have succeeded in assimilating them into our subsequent experiences and move on with our lives.' So much for that, in his early teens when Kazaliwa began bunking off from school and staying away from home.   He would more often than not be found at the home of one of his white friends, whose father was not too concerned about his son not attending school.  Yes, it had been the case that Kazaliwa, notwithstanding the fact that he had been the subject of racial bullying by some children while he was attending Junior School.   Had many white friends to whom he was very close. And it was not the case that it was their addiction to using elicit drugs that bind them together.  Or that there were only a handful of black families and even less black children Kazaliwa's age an

Her focus on what might seem small things to someone whose universe is not consisted primarily of their own little apartment, leads to her becoming frustrated and resentful, angry and sometimes depressed.  As her feeling of powerlessness to change the functioning of 'her home universe' becomes magnified. In our lives, our living, it is not necessarily a virtue for us to be always focused on making a detailed examination of all that is put before our eyes or cross our vision.  If we are too preoccupied with examining all the details, we can, we could become at risk of not seeing the bigger picture, the overview of how the object of our examination was put together.  At the same times, if we are given to focusing too much on the wider picture.   Then we could become at risk of overlooking the details and not being sufficiently aware of and appreciating the details and how they are put together to give rise to the bigger picture.  Our objective should normally be to get a balanced

'What we recall of our experiences of the past, tends to be a factor of how they impacted on our senses at the time, the strength of our continuing attachment to those experiences.   And the extent to which we have succeeded in assimilating them into our subsequent experiences and move on with our lives.' He would do this as well as having to conform to the prison culture. The culture that required him, Kazaliwa to, as it were, see everything but admit to having seen nothing.  Hearing as much as is required to protect yourself, but do not repeat what you have heard, especially to the prison officials.  The culture which requires you to endeavour to get redress, for anything you decide you need redress for.  But to do so according to your own methodology, and without the assistance of the prison officials, either directly or indirectly. Which explains why Kazaliwa would oftentimes end up being involved in conflicts or incidents with prison guards and/or other inmates/residents.

It should be the right of the citizen to enquire of the police-citizen the reason for them, the police-citizen, approaching and making enquiries of them, before having to comply with their request.  It should also be the duty of the citizen to exercise this right, in a reasonable and respectful manner, before complying with the enquiries of the police-citizen. In societies in which the police is seen as 'the enemy of not only those breaking the law, but the ordinary citizen who is not', then the battle against 'lawlessness' is nearly lost.

So why do we fear the void as much as we do, whether it is looking up into the voidness of space, or the voidness of the end of life, our life. And so it seems to me, that even though it might be difficult for us to do, we do need to learn to put away our fears about going into the void, and begin to learn to embrace it.  As a lover might embrace the love of his/her life. After all, it is the void that gave birth to us and all that there is within and outside of our visual and perceptive fields.  And it is to the void that we are destined to return, after having emanated from it and gained the intellect to consciously behold it.  Before returning to it in a state of disorganised and non-comprehending disintegrated matter. And attain the ultimate freedom and eternal peace, which should be the desire of all of us.