There is nothing really to celebrate regarding Somalia's current situation. We should look at our country in a logical manner. Our situation will not really improve until we try to rebuild trust with one another again. The first step is writing a constitution with Somaliland and Puntland involved. Our country will remain hopeless until we take a logical approach towards our challenges. All we have now is emotions. Bitterness, sadness, hate, confusion and narcissism.

The sentiment that you are observing here is called nostalgia (which comes from the Greek word for ‘homecoming’), it’s a feeling of romanticizing or yearning fo the ‘good old days’, and it can be a very powerful feeling, specially when people have major disruptions and uncertainties, and anxieties in their lives, the more they tend to nostalgically long for the past that they associate with being happy. What make this most dangerous is when politicians use this sentiment of an idealized past to provoke the social and cultural anxieties and uncertainties that make nostalgia especially attractive for purposes of manipulation or as defense mechanism to shade or cloak from people the current or historical facts, specially when people are at they’re most vulnerable. Studies have shown that events, dates, symbols, places and even music can trigger this feeling with people. Hence why some politicians tend to use and create a big fuzz more about certain events, symbols like flags and statues, places/locations, music, etc. It’s a tool Farmaajo has effectively mastered and utilized to rally very loyal supporters here, cloaking how empty his politics actually is.