Here are some thoughts I shared when we (the Cerebral Dopeys Book Club) read the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
1. People who are angry at your decision to be different are the Directors in your life. Especially when they've failed in their attempt to condition you.
2. Whatever you have been repeatedly exposed to at a tender age can never regain its novelty until you're made to reimagine its purpose/functionality through questioning and objective evaluation.
Feb 27, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Milton Friedman, an American Economist, reacted to this question raised by the then Secretary of Welfare, State of Pennsylvania - Helen Bohen O'Bannon:
What is the responsibility of the other 80%, if any, towards the bottom 20% of the population?
Note that this conversation was centred on Friedman's documentary on the negative effects of the Welfare System.
The Secretary, defending the system, said that it was the government's way of showing compassion to the bottom 20%.
Oct 17, 2020 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Excerpts from The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. to help shed light on the way to go as regard the #EndSARS#ReformPoliceNG protest going on across the country.
A thread.
Before the Boycott started, Martin Luther King Jr. thought about the morality of the method of protesting - the Boycott.
In spite of the fact that the Black community had a legitimate demand, they still thought about the morality of their method.
Would anyone suffer unjustly?
Oct 15, 2020 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Sir, I have been thinking about this beautiful movement of ours #EndSARS#ReformPoliceNG and I remember being teary when it started. Never in my life have I witnessed an organic protest... This is a first!
However, my worry is that we are not striking while the iron is hot.
We need to be strategic in our clamour for change and protest is just a part of this process.
The Blacks in Montgomery applied strategy by boycotting the public transport system for over a period of one year till their demands were met. Despite the inconveniences!
Jul 19, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Sir, I believe most of us have narcissistic tendencies. Our actions scream selfishness but our words deny same. We are slavishly preoccupied with personal gain but not the collective narrative (common good).
The rut of our narcissism is evident in our leadership. I'll explain.
