It is not, it seems, so easy to say what we are for although we might say we are for a nonsexist, democratic, nonraci al society, there are so many options vying for support in the marketplace that there is a fair degree of confusion and disillusionment. We have even been accused of being without a vision. People are finding it difficult to change from struggle tactics and strategies to those more appropriate to a time when there is no real need for huge protest marches since the doors are open which the often illegal marches of yesterye ar sought to force open. Small delegations can actually make appointments to see Cabinet Ministers and even the President himself, but the necessary adjustments and changes in mindset have not yet been made. Transition Period Periods of transition, then, heighten uncertainty and anxiety, which means that there is a nostalgia for certainty, for dogmatic, unambiguous answers to what turn out to be quite complex issues.
People become impatient of diversity and differences.
They long for what gives them a sense of security and that is usually sought and perhaps found in what is the well-known, what is familiar, what is the same. And hence the desire for homogeneity, sameness, and the abhorrence of what is different culturally, ethni cally, religiously, in points of view etc. Bosnia, it is genocide in Rwanda. There is a growing impatience with a diversity of points of view, a plethora of religious faiths, because the fact of their existence just adds to the confusion, heightening the uncertainty and anxiety. People don't want to be told that there may often well be no one definitive answer, that life is actually full of ambiguities and ambivalences and that we often will be called on to compromise when it will appear as if we are fudging the issue when in fact things are really not so complicated.