Suppose the Oromo people collectively comes to realization that “community is individual writ large” and have three parts the prudent leaders and thinkers, the guardian class and the worker class.
The guardian class, soldiers, noble puppies, auxiliaries must be fierce toward enemies yet gentle to those at home (citizens). Strong swift and bold yet love the citizen and the well-being of the citizen that supports it.
The prudent, the leadership that goes through meritorious test for a position of influence and power. And the eight cycles of stages in Gadaa the Oromo governance system was and still is the culturally based political system of governance with codes of conducts. I will leave the details to those who are qualified to elaborate.
For example, if we are testing someone for a leadership position, we are going to base our decision on merit. It is important for Oromo to understand what those meritorious materials and characteristics are, because the Oromo societal political structure is based on merit. The merit, discussed in here is that a merit of nobility and a properly cultured community member that whom natural manner is in order, and did not change from the noble characteristics by forgetfulness, wizardry, corruption… and so on and the society can identify them as naturally as they are because after all leadership in Oromo society is similar to the leadership of community of its predecessor’s “stewardship”. In arm there are boards you sit on those boards have a sheet that have many symbolic letters, code-names, codes based on those records on the sheet and what it stands for and it also tell whether if you can be promoted or not.
“They must be at every age to see if they are skillful guardians of the conviction never under the influence of wizardry, or force, forgotten, and thus in banish the opinion that one must do what is best for the community” Plato the Republic.
This when in the Gadaa people are going to be watched growing regularly, not only the working class but by those who meritoriously became the elite of the society, the guardian class in the socially responsible until they become the fitting leaders of their community. By passing such tests that considered like testing gold with fire (moral test), if these chosen leaders have a choice to make, do they choose to do things for their own best interests or for the best interests of the community? Same things with military or the guardian class leadership selections, if one can do to profit or to protect himself or do good and what is best for the unit?
On the merit candidates they are lovers of citizens and it’s wellbeing without undermining the citizen, therefore, sound Oromo can determine how one fits its societal structure (nature nurture), and some born with interests to be, or having care for skills, talents, ambitious…, self-sacrificing leaders and those need to be led by those leaders due to inability to lead themselves and it is natural, so the Gadaa system of Oromo people is to follow the conviction that thought by its society, and those convictions are always in the best interests of the society and the community.
Now in attempting to conceptualize the described community and individuals’ characteristics including shared behaviors that makes one to be contingents upon another, they where do this society comes from? It did not pop up from random place, it comes from the same place since the analogy is taken from Greek which it was Athens where they born from; thus, the Oromo people is also born of Oromiyyaa, born the earth of Oromiyyaa, the soil of Oromiyya, then Oromiyyaa then becomes your mother, not just a city, land or territory, but it is also homeland, Oromo is born of her womb. What these encourages is deep love for one another and your land like you love your mother; therefore, Oromo came from the land that it deeply considered a mother, that makes that society brothers and sisters as well. This is not just a langu
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