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The Enigma Of Doing The Basics. by philoedu(m): 12:25pm On Nov 07, 2022
The topic as you can see is tagged "moral decadence" a sort of total decline in some standard of living in general terms. This is both as a family, individual, and indeed as a society. The question that may come up here is what do we transfer to the next generation in terms of culture and standard of living. Because, often it seems to me that, there seems to be a distraction in this line of thinking in general, with the enigma of just moving on for sake of moving on.

Not that people are not aware that such concepts or ideas as a contention do not exist to be seriously addressed. Except that people don't seem to share the same very spirit of collectivism, on the contrary, often to the direction of individualism that does not seems to solve any problem other than to compound it. Now let me extend this further in terms of the continent of the like of Africa which seems to find itself in what I choose to call "IL Bivio" or the junction with many pathways, of which not knowing the right one to take in order to meet up with her aspirations.

What actually happens is that she is sort of now stranded not knowing which part is the right way to take to get over her problems talk less of what its priorities are. Of cause, due to her problems, she becomes already exceedingly nervous emotionally, not often composed as she tends to blame others for every of her predicament. Some contingent and necessary truths might be available to render some insight into how to get the basic things right.

But as I said, the nervousness and emotional distraction become an obstacle of which insecurity tends to find its shadow that overwhelm the spirit of clear thinking, as to even know that -you just cannot -"do any quality jump" without the basic rules, simply because others are doing so. And some of these basics tend to lie beneath the mood of tradition, culture and religions that often supposed to have made up the value system.

We as an individual, as family, and society, as I said, are just missing the point in disregarding a certain basic issue like" Moral Standard of living in our society of today, as in the concept of collectivism or individualism that tends to be playing a role without actually a well-defined role in the society at large. Now how long we really have to remain in this Bivio-or Junction- is left to be desired, as there are always praises of inexplicable strive of development, truth or false?. Of cause, there is always a choice to make between Inductive method and the Deductive Method-.

The first part is to view what looks like the discrepancies that exist and adapt right method that may require the Inductive method which is "from the Particulars to the Universal or General. On the other hand, is the Deductive method which is "from the General or Universal to Particulars.
But do not get me wrong, because in the end, it has to do with taking responsibility by every individual, family, and society that must be accountable either individually or collectively at the end of time-because distraction has a level that must be overcome for the sake of advancement. It seems education is having adverse negative effects on Africans to the very neglect of their culture and tradition. Therefore, they need to take a step backward, in other to get it right, because for now, they seems to be missing the mark as long as they are eager to want to move like the others .

But they must pay attention to the basics of their own environment without which it could just be a wistful thinking, although, it will always appear to the contrary. Because the others were not without such problem of today, but they did have to carry out the necessary sacrifice and if you like pay the price to get where they are and to the very level to have got it right a long time ago. And what they are simply doing in this level is trying to fine-tune every basic steps and if need be, carrying out some corrections where it seems not to have got it right, like the "climate change, due to some distractions. The African continent, on the other, instead of learning to do basics in their unique environment, they are now been drawn into facing up with the general trends of mistake of those who have long gotten it right, to the extent of been passive of their immediate problems.

The result is that they are in a "junction” or IL Bivio’’, a sort of confused state of which they are not very sure of the right thing to do domestically and end up not knowing what part to follow that actually result in what looks like an infighting without any form or insight of what need to be done to develop. But there is always a choice to make, which is taking the step from outside-in or taking it from inside out. The overall suggestion is that the Africans must strive to put their environment in order without falling into the same mistake like the others, which means doing the basics in terms of moral standard and traditions, putting the peculiar reality in perspective instead of want to generalize issues.

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