{"id":33991,"date":"2022-08-10T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/life-is-so-thin\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T22:30:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T20:30:27","slug":"life-is-so-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/life-is-so-thin\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is So Thin"},"content":{"rendered":"Civil war has been raging in Ethiopia for nearly two years. It is not easy to pinpoint the blame for the suffering of the civilian population, but life there is getting thinner and thinner. Two main causes are entanglements over political power and identification with one's own ethnicity.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFive years ago, the Oromo protests were still in the foreground, causing states of emergency in which people died - we were not allowed to leave our hotel. At that time, a local acquaintance told me, \u00abThe problems of our country can only be solved by a civil war.\u00bb I was shocked. When I asked Amharic farmers in the Semien Mountains about this, they replied, \u00abGod will direct it, we can't do anything. We have to wait and see.\u00bb\n\n\n\nThe current, unofficially elected Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali (ha<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil war has been raging in Ethiopia for nearly two years. It is not easy to pinpoint the blame for the suffering of the civilian population, but life there is getting thinner and thinner. Two main causes are entanglements over political power and identification with one&#8217;s own ethnicity. Five years ago, the Oromo protests were still in the foreground, causing states of emergency in which people died &#8211; we were not allowed to leave our hotel. At that time, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9153,"featured_media":33779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8822,8823],"tags":[8801,8824],"class_list":["post-33991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-reflection","tag-2021-49-en","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}