CaveAdullam: 1. Celebration of materialism, entertainment, and theatre are potent signs of a declining or failed society.
2. These young people will never celebrate the young man striving to survive on the street, they will look down on the young girl hawking her merchandise to make ends meet. Because their lives are not flashy, they don't exude a perfume of luxury and greed. But one thing you can't take from these men and women is the wisdom and strength birthed out of their life's struggles and experiences.
3. Younger minds of today have been bastardized by every show of flashiness, there lies their dopamine hit. They are myopic, lazy, complacent, and vapid because they don't value what's not glamouring like gold. Their rights have been taken away from them via entertainment, but they will accuse, rush and attack you when you bring this to their notice.
4. Their role models are fraudsters, prostitutes, sociopaths, the corrupt, weak, arrogant, and neurotic. These are their golden calves, their gods, and their oracle.
5. Flexing wealth is always a sign of low IQ except it is a result of official duties. The dumb and low in intelligence flex wealth because it veneers their feebleness and drawbacks because they lack what's true: wisdom, character, integrity, competence, kindness, modesty, brave, assertiveness, confidence, and courage. These qualities are not flashy and will not be glorified by the generations of dumb fellows.
6. Flexing wealth is one thing, but having the capacity to protect your life after the flexing is the most vital because you have awakened sleeping demons and devils that reside in manipulations, greed, envy, and jealousy. A case of penny wise pounds foolish.
7. Will I say, unfortunately? Ironically, a society that needs growth, truth, and freedom is the same society that will jettison and throw immaterial transcendental virtues under the bus when it comes to beautiful looks, flashy cars, designer clothes, fanciful gadgets, shining jewelry, and polished shoes. A weak generation indeed!
She reminds me of my then school mate who comes with military escorts on resumption days. Rumor had it that her family were not wealthy but it was one of her patrons official fleet. It may her customer's escort....
CaveAdullam: 1. Celebration of materialism, entertainment, and theatre are potent signs of a declining or failed society.
2. These young people will never celebrate the young man striving to survive on the street, they will look down on the young girl hawking her merchandise to make ends meet. Because their lives are not flashy, they don't exude a perfume of luxury and greed. But one thing you can't take from these men and women is the wisdom and strength birthed out of their life's struggles and experiences.
3. Younger minds of today have been bastardized by every show of flashiness, there lies their dopamine hit. They are myopic, lazy, complacent, and vapid because they don't value what's not glamouring like gold. Their rights have been taken away from them via entertainment, but they will accuse, rush and attack you when you bring this to their notice.
4. Their role models are fraudsters, prostitutes, sociopaths, the corrupt, weak, arrogant, and neurotic. These are their golden calves, their gods, and their oracle.
5. Flexing wealth is always a sign of low IQ except it is a result of official duties. The dumb and low in intelligence flex wealth because it veneers their feebleness and drawbacks because they lack what's true: wisdom, character, integrity, competence, kindness, modesty, brave, assertiveness, confidence, and courage. These qualities are not flashy and will not be glorified by the generations of dumb fellows.
6. Flexing wealth is one thing, but having the capacity to protect your life after the flexing is the most vital because you have awakened sleeping demons and devils that reside in manipulations, greed, envy, and jealousy. A case of penny wise pounds foolish.
7. Will I say, unfortunately? Ironically, a society that needs growth, truth, and freedom is the same society that will jettison and throw immaterial transcendental virtues under the bus when it comes to beautiful looks, flashy cars, designer clothes, fanciful gadgets, shining jewelry, and polished shoes. A weak generation indeed!
Sigh.
Are you related to Prof Wole Soyinka? You wrote this like a poem. Kudos.
Wow. I couldn't have said it better. So much truths in your write up. Unfortunately Nigeria of today doesn't reward honesty and hardwork any more. It's all about blings and flashy things regardless of how it's gotten, all about man know man. It's really unfortunate.
1. Everybody cares about results without necessary consideration of the process that's involved and the unintended consequences. I can easily trace this back to motivational talks which harangue listeners to focus more on results because nobody cares about their secret and hard work. "You are not known until we see your result" is a major component of motivational tongues. Not that the statement is wrong, but motivational leaders have either failed to properly explain that life occurs in unpredicted phases or they did, but the listeners didn't understand.
2. The game of numbers is a vital component of life, the higher the number the higher the result. The majority wins the vote. A higher number of customers brings more profits. A higher score brings higher grades. Similarly, a higher number of dumb people occupying a geographical terrain brings a higher level of underdevelopment.
3. No matter how much truth is enunciated, it will never find a landing place, but remain floating in the air. Because until the numbers appreciate it, it will not land. The only way it can land with fewer adherents is if the adherents become 'truth extremists' - not in the way ideologues or religious people perform their ideologies, but the way patriots, nationalists, and freedom fighters do.
4. Truth and light can never be hidden for long, they will find a place and a time to express and shine respectively. But the continuous adjourning of truth and light when it is needed in an immediate time like this will make us linger in falsehood, lies, and darkness. This will remain the case until a generation of truth seekers defers the status quo, look beyond comfort and materialism, and have the existence of future generations at heart.
5. The children of the (dark) world will always take the center stage if their hands are always on the tools that ought to be used by the children of light. Misplaced priority right?
6. Not only in Nigeria, the celebration of flashiness, luxury, debauchery and hedonism is global, the internet has the statistics. The display of madnéss in the global North is borne out of comfort while in the global South it is borne out of suffering and underdevelopment; same result, different approaches.
7. Regardless of the number, it is better to die poor on the right side, howbeit, it is sacrosanct one leverage on the benefits of being on the right side to live a good and reputable life, than die comfortably on the wrong side. Because in the end, truth, honesty, and, integrity will always prevail no matter the delay or denial.
Politicians wife or daughter or mistress. Mobile police, land cruiser jeep (with covered number plate if you checked) and siren. That's not a private citizen.
Don't mind the commenters on this thread. Their angry, poor little minds don't go in this direction. All they know is that she must be a prostitute. As if politicians and directors don't have daughters in Nigeria.
1. Everybody cares about results without necessary consideration of the process that's involved and the unintended consequences. I can easily trace this back to motivational talks which harangue listeners to focus more on results because nobody cares about their secret and hard work. "You are not known until we see your result" is a major component of motivational tongues. Not that the statement is wrong, but motivational leaders have either failed to properly explain that life occurs in unpredicted phases or they did, but the listeners didn't understand.
2. The game of numbers is a vital component of life, the higher the number the higher the result. The majority wins the vote. A higher number of customers brings more profits. A higher score brings higher grades. Similarly, a higher number of dumb people occupying a geographical terrain brings a higher level of underdevelopment.
3. No matter how much truth is enunciated, it will never find a landing place, but remain floating in the air. Because until the numbers appreciate it, it will not land. The only way it can land with fewer adherents is if the adherents become 'truth extremists' - not in the way ideologues or religious people perform their ideologies, but the way patriots, nationalists, and freedom fighters do.
4. Truth and light can never be hidden for long, they will find a place and a time to express and shine respectively. But the continuous adjourning of truth and light when it is needed in an immediate time like this will make us linger in falsehood, lies, and darkness. This will remain the case until a generation of truth seekers defers the status quo, look beyond comfort and materialism, and have the existence of future generations at heart.
5. The children of the (dark) world will always take the center stage if their hands are always on the tools that ought to be used by the children of light. Misplaced priority right?
6. Not only in Nigeria, the celebration of flashiness, luxury, debauchery and hedareism is global, the internet has the statistics. The display of madnéss in the global North is borne out of comfort while in the global South it is borne out of suffering and underdevelopment; same result, different approaches.
7. Regardless of the number, it is better to die poor on the right side, howbeit, it is sacrosanct one leverage on the benefits of being on the right side to live a good and reputable life, than die comfortably on the wrong side. Because in the end, truth, honesty, and, integrity will always prevail no matter the delay or denial.
Thanks.
Cc. MemoriesAndMe, Philipmaxwell, Antyxx et al.,
Words on marble!
A million thanks, I feel like I just read a classic. We need more lightbearers like you in Nigeria. With minds such as yours, there's a glimmer of hope for Nigeria.
A million thanks, I feel like I just read a classic. We need more lightbearers like you in Nigeria. With minds such as yours, there's a glimmer of hope for Nigeria.
Thank you for your kind words. I do appreciate it. Promise to improve and do better.
Evil can only be conquered if we remove the stool it stands upon, take hold of the tools it used for ruling, pursue good and look beyond ourselves.
Don't mind the commenters on this thread. Their angry, poor little minds don't go in this direction. All they know is that she must be a prostitute. As if politicians and directors don't have daughters in Nigeria.
1. Even if her father and family line are politicians, it reeks of low intelligence to flex wealth. It is good to have good looks and own all the luxuries your money can buy but as with all things in life, balance is required; the people and environment you are dealing with matter a lot.
2. Nigeria is an underdeveloped country that breeds corrupt and rapacious politicians. A politician's daughter that flexes her father's (stolen) wealth in the face of the peasant's children that voted him into power is stupidity. She is just breeding a seething cauldron of hate, envy, and jealousy in the minds and hearts of these children and their parents.
3. Not that it same security allocated to her as her father, and she is in a different environment from her father. Her father is always in the midst of people like him, unlike her that who is found with the peasants considering the length of her course of study. So, why flex and intimidate?
It is just like boasting about a glass of water in a desert when you know it will not go around. You are simply calling for danger.
4. On the other hand, you can see the children of peasants applauding and hailing her because they are lost in a culture that puts artificial beauty first, praises worldliness and flashiness, and only promotes materialism. If not they would have seen that their destinies had been shortchanged.
1. Even if her father and family line are politicians, it reeks of low intelligence to flex wealth. It is good to have good looks and own all the luxuries your money can buy but as with all things in life, balance is required; the people and environment you are dealing with matter a lot.
2. Nigeria is an underdeveloped country that breeds corrupt and rapacious politicians. A politician's daughter that flexes her father's (stolen) wealth in the face of the peasant's children that voted him into power is stupidity. She is just breeding a seething cauldron of hate, envy, and jealousy in the minds and hearts of these children and their parents.
3. Not that it same security allocated to her as her father, and she is in a different environment from her father. Her father is always in the midst of people like him, unlike her that who is found with the peasants considering the length of her course of study. So, why flex and intimidate?
It is just like boasting about a glass of water in a desert when you know it will not go around. You are simply calling for danger.
4. On the other hand, you can see the children of peasants applauding and hailing her because they are lost in a culture that puts artificial beauty first, praises worldliness and flashiness, and only promotes materialism. If not they would have seen that their destinies had been shortchanged.
Everything in that video exudes a poor mentality.
Thanks.
Needless epistle. Didn't read it, except the last two lines.
We all know the reason you're against her display. It's got little to do with your displayed self-righteousness. Judas Iscariot said more about the woman with the casket of perfume than you have done, but his true motive was laid bare.
You don't know who the girl is, you also don't know who her parents are. Whatever she chooses to do with her money is her business.
It's hard to imagine her father or mother could afford her. We know, Dredd.
1. Everybody cares about results without necessary consideration of the process that's involved and the unintended consequences. I can easily trace this back to motivational talks which harangue listeners to focus more on results because nobody cares about their secret and hard work. "You are not known until we see your result" is a major component of motivational tongues. Not that the statement is wrong, but motivational leaders have either failed to properly explain that life occurs in unpredicted phases or they did, but the listeners didn't understand.
2. The game of numbers is a vital component of life, the higher the number the higher the result. The majority wins the vote. A higher number of customers brings more profits. A higher score brings higher grades. Similarly, a higher number of dumb people occupying a geographical terrain brings a higher level of underdevelopment.
3. No matter how much truth is enunciated, it will never find a landing place, but remain floating in the air. Because until the numbers appreciate it, it will not land. The only way it can land with fewer adherents is if the adherents become 'truth extremists' - not in the way ideologues or religious people perform their ideologies, but the way patriots, nationalists, and freedom fighters do.
4. Truth and light can never be hidden for long, they will find a place and a time to express and shine respectively. But the continuous adjourning of truth and light when it is needed in an immediate time like this will make us linger in falsehood, lies, and darkness. This will remain the case until a generation of truth seekers defers the status quo, look beyond comfort and materialism, and have the existence of future generations at heart.
5. The children of the (dark) world will always take the center stage if their hands are always on the tools that ought to be used by the children of light. Misplaced priority right?
6. Not only in Nigeria, the celebration of flashiness, luxury, debauchery and hedonism is global, the internet has the statistics. The display of madnéss in the global North is borne out of comfort while in the global South it is borne out of suffering and underdevelopment; same result, different approaches.
7. Regardless of the number, it is better to die poor on the right side, howbeit, it is sacrosanct one leverage on the benefits of being on the right side to live a good and reputable life, than die comfortably on the wrong side. Because in the end, truth, honesty, and, integrity will always prevail no matter the delay or denial.
