I was just speaking with one of my mentors (name withheld lest I distract a few) when I mentioned the growing trend with the uneducated literates. Epictetus it was that said “It is impossible for people to learn what they believe and think they already know.”
Can we ever learn a lot enough to be so saturated that we can’t take in any new ideas especially with the changing times? Is it wise to be locked into a belief in this age and hope to connect to the new generation to whom the world belongs?
I have studied the psychopathology of scaremongering based on agendas even from 2000 when I was deep in the trenches of building supercomputers in an ignorant and fearful society. In 2000- Y2K was the plague that was projected as the harbinger of the apocalypse.
In 2001 it was Anthrax that was sold as the trigger of the end of the world as we know it.
2002 West Nile Virus trumped the fears that preceded it.
2003 was dominated by the fear of SARS (Not the Nigerian police version).
2005- It was Bird Flu.
2006 - It was ECOLI
2002 West Nile Virus trumped the fears that preceded it.
2003 was dominated by the fear of SARS (Not the Nigerian police version).
2005- It was Bird Flu.
2006 - It was ECOLI
2008- It was basically bad economy that was going to ruin the world with impoverishment and bad debt (sun-prime loans).
2009- It was SWINE Flu.
2010- BP Oil was fingered as the Global Soul Reaper
2012- The Mayan Calendar was the culprit
2013- North Korea became the Devil
2009- It was SWINE Flu.
2010- BP Oil was fingered as the Global Soul Reaper
2012- The Mayan Calendar was the culprit
2013- North Korea became the Devil
2014 - It was the year of the Ebola Threat with Nigerians bathing in artificial Salt Lake & consuming same in biblical quantities.
2015- It was the year Nigeria was made to believe Corruption will kill us under a certain Govt even with global Disney Measles & ISIS threat.
2015- It was the year Nigeria was made to believe Corruption will kill us under a certain Govt even with global Disney Measles & ISIS threat.
2016 it was when Zika Virus took the stage & was tagged as the corridor to the end of the world.
Between 2016-2019 Nigeria battled almost all the plagues of Egypt in bad leadership & institutional gaps to the point where in 2020 the threat was capped with CoronaVirus.
Between 2016-2019 Nigeria battled almost all the plagues of Egypt in bad leadership & institutional gaps to the point where in 2020 the threat was capped with CoronaVirus.
Truth be told it will always be one thing or the other. What is actually killing the world is fear mongering. Block a few block heads spreading fear on your WhatsApp channels and other Socialmedia platform and watch TV less. You will be just fine as active prayerful citizens.
As an observer of the times, I can tell how our selected amnesia has worsened over the years to the point that our memories have been so truncated that we only have our memories recorded in days because of the theatre of the absurd we are currently adjusted to. #FixSociety
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