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pansophist:
Quite the opposite. I'm very patriotic, what I meant to write was "let the nationalistic ones save Nigeria". I've redacted it to reflect this point.

Leaving a country you are patriotic towards doesn't mean you don't like or want the best for it, but a well known strategy of "surviving first, then fight later". You can't be hungry and hopeless in Nigeria while refusing to leave because you're patriotic. That's stupidity.

This reminds me of the 18th century invasion of Russia by France. The French military led by Napoleon were undefeatable then, and the French envied the vast landmass of Russia, longing for the defeat of the Russian empire and to occupy their land with all the resources buried underneath.

The Russians being very patriotic devised an ingenious method, which is, they allowed the French army to advance deep into the interior of Russia which took them months, even into their capital Moscow. The Russians even burnt their capital and looted it, and when the French arrived, they were shocked. Like what is happening?

Then the Russians attacked. If you know anything about Russia, you'll see that they are known for two things. Landmass and winter, which the Russians used to their advantage.

For example if Ghanian army wanted to attack Nigeria through the Lagos seme border, it's easier to defeat them when you allow them march deep into the interior of Nigeria, then fight them maybe in North, in state like Maiduguri, the opposite end of Lagos.

This strategy is deadly because supplies and food become difficult and longer for the invading army to access, their morale weakened, and of course it's difficult to go back home for the invading army, and in the case of Russia, the dead freezing cold of the arctic was an advantage.

In a nutshell, the Russians defeated the French army, and with for roughly every five soldiers that made it to Russia, only one returned alive. Over a century later, Hitler attempted the same thing snd met the same fate of defeat.

So if the Russians can destroy a global capital city such as Moscow, so they can strategize and return with a more deadly ambush, then on an individual level, patriotism would be to leave and support the nation either through cash (eg when you send money to your loved ones, build your house, open a business etc), you're good to go.

The opposite will be nationalism, which in my book is toxic and stupid. Like those northerners than blow up their countrymen for some stupid ideology, or that no matter how bad the country degenerates into, they see leaving as betrayal and unpatriotic. That's stupidity, not patriotism.

So my dear comrade, japa first, save yourself, remove the speck in your eyes, see clearly and thrive, then determine how you want to support or help the country. That's true patriotism.

pansophist:
This is true, and there are lots of examples to support it. I'll list a few.

For example, the Nigerian communities in the west especially the US are known as the most educated and amongst the wealthiest groups, but this data glossed over one important part, and it is that the Nigerians in question are first generation immigrants.

Those ones that are called "fresh off the boat", or "booty scratchers" lol. These sets were hungry for success, calling up all the strength in them since they are faced with impending challenges such as permanent legal residency, finances, integration, establishment and so forth.

But after they've overcome these hurdles and started having kids who didn't face such challenges, their kids who are privileged just became regular Americans without the drive, hunger for success and ambitions their precedents had.

Furthermore, your point is supported by the widely recognised book that explains the states of most regions in the world titled "Gun, Germ and Steel" by Jared Diamond. The author posits that geographical realities are the basis for the evolution of human societies. The more deprived the societies are, the more likely they will be successful since they won't rely on nature, but on their ingenuity to thrive.

And if you observe our world today, this is self-evident. The global north is the most developed (Europe, North America aka the west), while the global south is not ( aka Africa, South America) . You can literally eat an orange and throw the seed on the floor, come back in a year and you have an orange tree in many places in the global south.

The warm weather, abundance of resources necessary to thrive, and relatively low population (pre 1900s) made it unnecessary for exploration in the global south, which made us content and coexist with nature. Also you'll observe that Europeans enslaved Africans in plantations such as Brazil, then ship all the produce to Europe. The South is naturally rich, simple.

This is not the same for Europe. In winter for example, the weather will kill you if you do not have shelter. Lots of homeless people are frozen to death during the peak of winter and it's not news. You may be broke in Europe for example, but you can hardly be homeless. Homeless shelter are everywhere for you to crash.

When I just arrived in Europe during my first semester, the warning our uni gave to international students back then was to not get too drunk and can't find our way back home after clubbing, because we can literally die, no capping. When you're drunk, it's like Anastasia, you don't feel the cold until you die.

In the dead of winter, nothing grows. Supermarkets in Europe are filled with foods from all parts of the global south. Bananas, pineapples, and coconuts are all imported. It's why the eu has almost no taxes on foods coming from Africa, and the few areas they invest heavily on, so we can export to them.

Another example would be the docility of a tiger in captivity to the one in the wild. The wild tiger usually is smarter, agile, cunning and brutal, just because his life is on the line. He has to be that way to survive, he has no choice. It also explains why nomadic groups are far more brutal (Eg the Fulanis) than others.

So yes, I actually agree with you. If Africa wants to get it right, we simply can not ignore the realities of geographical limitation, and build from there.

pansophist:
This is sad for me to say, and the political elites knows this well, but I'll say it anyways.

The realities of most African countries right now is not an happenstance, but something that have been carefully engineered centuries ago by the west. We exist in the world they created for us, and we are exactly where they want us to be.

In this imposed world they created, our best time would be in the past, not the future. The best time of your country will be in the memories of your parents, and if you think that you're having a bad time, then the upcoming generation will have it worse.

Africa as a whole never got independence in the truest sense of the word, what we called "independence" is nothing but the transition of a dying method of exploitation (colonialism), to a more sophisticated, effective, self-sustaining method of subjugation (imperialism). Nothing more.

You can't call yourself independent when your official language, political system, monetary policy, culture, educational system has been heavily designed and photocopied from people that destroyed you in the first place. You're not independent when your strength comes from others/outside, not inside, from you.

The day any African country can survive just like Russia and China who has been sanctioned to death by the west who seems themselves as earthly god, on that very day, we have achieved independence. The day we can lock our borders and not get anything from west through importation (autarky) and still stands, just like Russia, is when we have achieved true independence.

Most country except maybe six globally grew outside the western hegemonic order, hence no matter what the west does to them, they simply cannot go down, and they are hated for that.

Your politicians knows this very dark fact, I also assume they are hopeless in it, and just choose to embezzle instead. Foreign powers way stronger than regional and national powers pull the strings from a global level. Africa has never had a leader in the league of Stalin or Mao, all we have are rulers. Foolish rulers that don't know what leadership and true independence is.

Sorry for being the carrier of bad news, but unless a slave knows that he is a slave, he will never plot his freedom. Africa must undergo another series of true independence and flush off cesspit democracy once and for all, because no third world country will ever grow under such system. It was not designed to.

Right now, the youth that should fight the system and rescue themselves from this imposed slavery their parents couldn't destroy are all on social media trying to gain followers lol, addicted to porn and gambling, chronic womanisers, alcoholic and ashawos lol. But still, I recognised the system stacked against them, making them survive in such a humiliating way. Na person wey chop belleful de fight for freedom.

If you want to truly swallow the redpill, then this is it. In a nutshell, you're surviving (not thriving) in a system created for you by the west. Like a zoo lion, you're merely a sentient for exploitation, and you do not control the realities of your existence.

pansophist:
Quite the opposite. I'm very patriotic, what I meant to write was "let the nationalistic ones save Nigeria". I've redacted it to reflect this point.

Leaving a country you are patriotic towards doesn't mean you don't like or want the best for it, but a well known strategy of "surviving first, then fight later". You can't be hungry and hopeless in Nigeria while refusing to leave because you're patriotic. That's stupidity.

This reminds me of the 18th century invasion of Russia by France. The French military led by Napoleon were undefeatable then, and the French envied the vast landmass of Russia, longing for the defeat of the Russian empire and to occupy their land with all the resources buried underneath.

The Russians being very patriotic devised an ingenious method, which is, they allowed the French army to advance deep into the interior of Russia which took them months, even into their capital Moscow. The Russians even burnt their capital and looted it, and when the French arrived, they were shocked. Like what is happening?

Then the Russians attacked. If you know anything about Russia, you'll see that they are known for two things. Landmass and winter, which the Russians used to their advantage.

For example if Ghanian army wanted to attack Nigeria through the Lagos seme border, it's easier to defeat them when you allow them march deep into the interior of Nigeria, then fight them maybe in North, in state like Maiduguri, the opposite end of Lagos.

This strategy is deadly because supplies and food become difficult and longer for the invading army to access, their morale weakened, and of course it's difficult to go back home for the invading army, and in the case of Russia, the dead freezing cold of the arctic was an advantage.

In a nutshell, the Russians defeated the French army, and with for roughly every five soldiers that made it to Russia, only one returned alive. Over a century later, Hitler attempted the same thing snd met the same fate of defeat.

So if the Russians can destroy a global capital city such as Moscow, so they can strategize and return with a more deadly ambush, then on an individual level, patriotism would be to leave and support the nation either through cash (eg when you send money to your loved ones, build your house, open a business etc), you're good to go.

The opposite will be nationalism, which in my book is toxic and stupid. Like those northerners than blow up their countrymen for some stupid ideology, or that no matter how bad the country degenerates into, they see leaving as betrayal and unpatriotic. That's stupidity, not patriotism.

So my dear comrade, japa first, save yourself, remove the speck in your eyes, see clearly and thrive, then determine how you want to support or help the country. That's true patriotism.

Mide3367:
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pansophist:
Delete your number and send me an email instead.

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Delete your number and send me an email instead.

pansophist:
It's not pessimism, it's the truth. We are all not born equal. A child born in Sweden will have a good life life by the virtue of his citizenship to someone born in Nigeria. I have two nationalities, and the difference between the two is like day and night.

For example me and a Ghanian friend wanted to visit Dublin for work one time, but the Irish embassy denied him a visa even if he has a permanent resident here and earns well Meanwhile, I don't need a visa and only need to just buy plane ticket.

He missed that opportunity even if he did nothing wrong but to be born Ghanian, and same applies to Nigeria. If you're in your twenties, your national anthem should be japa by Naira Marley. Let the nationalistic ones save Nigeria. As for you a patriot, JAPA.

pansophist:
This is sad for me to say, and the political elites knows this well, but I'll say it anyways.

The realities of most African countries right now is not an happenstance, but something that have been carefully engineered centuries ago by the west. We exist in the world they created for us, and we are exactly where they want us to be.

In this imposed world they created, our best time would be in the past, not the future. The best time of your country will be in the memories of your parents, and if you think that you're having a bad time, then the upcoming generation will have it worse.

Africa as a whole never got independence in the truest sense of the word, what we called "independence" is nothing but the transition of a dying method of exploitation (colonialism), to a more sophisticated, effective, self-sustaining method of subjugation (imperialism). Nothing more.

You can't call yourself independent when your official language, political system, monetary policy, culture, educational system has been heavily designed and photocopied from people that destroyed you in the first place. You're not independent when your strength comes from others/outside, not inside, from you.

The day any African country can survive just like Russia and China who has been sanctioned to death by the west who seems themselves as earthly god, on that very day, we have achieved independence. The day we can lock our borders and not get anything from west through importation (autarky) and still stands, just like Russia, is when we have achieved true independence.

Most country except maybe six globally grew outside the western hegemonic order, hence no matter what the west does to them, they simply cannot go down, and they are hated for that.

Your politicians knows this very dark fact, I also assume they are hopeless in it, and just choose to embezzle instead. Foreign powers way stronger than regional and national powers pull the strings from a global level. Africa has never had a leader in the league of Stalin or Mao, all we have are rulers. Foolish rulers that don't know what leadership and true independence is.

Sorry for being the carrier of bad news, but unless a slave knows that he is a slave, he will never plot his freedom. Africa must undergo another series of true independence and flush off cesspit democracy once and for all, because no third world country will ever grow under such system. It was not designed to.

Right now, the youth that should fight the system and rescue themselves from this imposed slavery their parents couldn't destroy are all on social media trying to gain followers lol, addicted to porn and gambling, chronic womanisers, alcoholic and ashawos lol. But still, I recognised the system stacked against them, making them survive in such a humiliating way. Na person wey chop belleful de fight for freedom.

If you want to truly swallow the redpill, then this is it. In a nutshell, you're surviving (not thriving) in a system created for you by the west. Like a zoo lion, you're merely a sentient for exploitation, and you do not control the realities of your existence.

stanluiz:
I hope you know that Stalin and Mao are the most evil men in history. Those Two dictators killed Ten of Millions their own people.

Mao was a failure. It was his successor that put china in the right part of progress.

pansophist:
About Stalin, he paid the price of destroying nazism from Europe by losing twenty million soldiers, and if you love freedom, you owe these men a debt that can never be paid. If not because China and Russia got their act together to be a stumbling block to the west, the slavery your ancestors went through would be nothing compare to the sorrows that awaits you. You think the west are your friend? I weep.

So my guy, learn to think for yourself. What I've written is not to teach you anything, but to make you think and be conscious of structures that exist in the background that make you think a certain way. Talk to the Chinese themselves via zhihu for a start. Or read from Chinese independent writers on quora, just hear from the horse's mouth.

True freedom comes from the mind first or as Bob Marley puts it, "emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind".

pansophist:
I wrote this about a year ago on this thread https://www.nairaland.com/6716367/how-does-young-teenager-figure#105104589 But I think more young people have to see this. Please don't joke with your youth.

pansophist:
Remember that friend that will tell you shit about someone, then later you find out that it was all a lie and a ploy to cover their own fault, especially when they've gravely offended you (eg saying shit about you), and that person they talk shit about will expose them?

Refuse to let yourself be used. Did you arrive at your opinion about these leaders by yourself or by western sources? If you know China before Mao won the civil war, you'll see that Nigeria of today was far better than China when Mao took over. Mao and the CCP saved China, it's an historically uncontested fact.

Go to Zhihu.com (Chinese version of Quora or ask.com), then use Google translate and interact with the Chinese yourself. I made lots of Chinese friends this way. Let them tell you about Mao, hear from the horse's mouth, and not western sources.

Do you expect the west to praise Mao after he chased them out of China, recovered Hong Kong from the British that was stolen for a hundred years, Macau from the Portuguese, recovered Manchuria from the Japanese and now Taiwan is on the line to be reunified?

In the 70's, China couldn't even afford to build a expressway without sewing millions of clothes for western countries, but fast forward to 2022, they put a man in space and is the world largest economy, building infrastructures all over Africa. Mao, a man that saved China you have a negative view of? Lol.

I wished such a leader existed in Nigeria, you probably would be living far better than now. I'll tell you a secret that every leader knows. It's simple. They are above the law. Just as religious books are written for Christians to follow, civil law is for civilians, and leaders will break it if needed to advance the interest of their society. Mao did exactly that.

Mao alongside Stalin may have done lots of wrong, but the Chinese and those well vast in Chinese history knows it was not intentional, but a necessary mistake, e.g. the about 20 millions Chinese that died in the farming due to western blockade, a price that made China self-sufficient in food today. China paid the price for their freedom, hence they are free and thriving.

About Stalin, he paid the price of destroying nazism from Europe by losing twenty million soldiers, and if you love freedom, you owe these men a debt that can never be paid. If not because China and Russia got their act together to be a stumbling block to the west, the slavery your ancestors went through would be nothing compare to the sorrows that awaits you. You think the west are your friend? I weep.

So my guy, learn to think for yourself. What I've written is not to teach you anything, but to make you think and be conscious of structures that exist in the background that make you think a certain way. Also known as metacognition, to understand why you think the way you think.

True freedom comes from the mind first or as Bob Marley puts it, "emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind".

RenerdLiam:
Yeah.

Your pessimism is your reality.

My delussion is so beautiful.

Even amid the mess.

But my delusion is my reality.

And I made them tangible.

I don't just imagine them. I bring them into something I can see. And I can feel. And I can live in.

Because they are the thoughts of my heart: They are crystal clear to me.

They are my reality.

Although, it will always be a story.

Just as you pointed out.

0neal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7gAEkzIgvw

Jordan B Peterson latest interview with Micheal Yon a war correspondence, is an eye opener of the worsening global relations and the adverse effects it will have on third world countries like Nigeria if our leaders don't become extraordinarily proactive.

Learnt a lot from the podcast

RenerdLiam:
Yeah.

Your pessimism is your reality.

My delussion is so beautiful.

Even amid the mess.

But my delusion is my reality.

And I made them tangible.

I don't just imagine them. I bring them into something I can see. And I can feel. And I can live in.

Because they are the thoughts of my heart: They are crystal clear to me.

They are my reality.

Although, it will always be a story.

Just as you pointed out.

tensazangetsu20:
Even if you manage to get a remote job, to receive payment is mental gymnastics. I remember how we struggled to get paid at my company after all previous options we used were blocked. Had to settle for crypto eventually. I would absolutely never open a dorm account in Nigeria because I Know the Nigerian government is going for those soon. People think their dorm account monies are safe whereas the government has less than 500k USD in cash lol.

Evolutionlove:
Make them kukuma start to arrest everyone who has money In their Accounts. Werey Government..

tensazangetsu20:
They wont do this. What they will do is tell the banks not to give anyone dollars but the naira equivalents at official rate of their dollars and send the dollars to CBN

deept:
Is that a wise move? People will stop sending Forex to the country and that will make it even worse.

RenerdLiam:
Trust me.


There is always a way if you think outta the box.


I am talking purely from what I have gone through.

Although, I also understand that everyone can't be me.

So, I am not pressing too hard on my point.

But if you can think outside the box once every road is blocked due to where you find yourself.

There is every possible chance of innovation and success beyond the norm.

cayorday89:
This was worth reading, and your last paragraph preceding the concluding paragraph speaks to me directly as an individual and people who are in my shoes, from childhood, I was that child that was not allowed to mingle with others or allowed to take key decisions that involved his life and now I am struggling so hard to find my bearing with this harsh economic reality, truly the earlier the tiger is freed the better. Obstacles will come but if he is shield because of those obstacles, they will still be waiting and he will still fight them but by then it will be thrice as much and lesser fighting power.

Much thanks to you for your enlightening write ups.

tensazangetsu20:
They wont do this. What they will do is tell the banks not to give anyone dollars but the naira equivalents at official rate of their dollars and send the dollars to CBN

tensazangetsu20:
You really think those in charge of Nigeria have Nigerians best interest at heart . The funny thing is the dollars will only be used to carry olosho and buy Mercedes

Karleb:
Baba, in spite of the harshness of Nigeria, some have it easier. Those are the privileged but its unfair and insensitive not to acknowledge the pain and struggle of others.

Take for instance, a certain CEO of Patricia is a 26 year old millionaire in dollars, he can come up to say that others are lazy or are not making enough use of opportunities if he so wishes but for every one of success like his, there are at least 500, 000 failures. People who tried and still failed anyways.

How many under 30 millionaires do we have in Nigeria, compared to close to 2 million in US.


I remember talking to a lady here who claimed she could have saved a lot during her NYSC if she wished but when I asked her some certain questions, I got to know she was being taken care of by other people.

For a lot of Nigerian, there is no way! Na to just suffer till death comes and the number of such Nigerians are increasing daily.