"The statement by Paul McCartney that, although he was a
pacifist, he couldn't be at this time of war. Which is as daft as being
vegetarian between meals...Mark Steel. VISUALIZE:
Close your
eyes for a short moment and try to seize the courage to imagine this dark
scenario. A bomb explodes in a public arena, and when the devastating news was
broken to you, it also came with a further mind sting that your loved one was a
casualty of the apocalypse. Now open your eyes.
Sadly, in
harsh reality, this scenario does not need any visualization or imagination for
many people; this is because it actually happened to them. Lots of people have
lost friends and even their entire families to various destruction such as
physical, psychological and financial explosions and implosions. More sadly,
apart from natural disasters, we are the cause of any other form of threat to
human annihilation.
“Only the eyes that are calm can see
the nose”…Yoruba proverb
PHYLOSOPHY:
Apparently,
fearless as we may describe them, philosophers have only done ordinary things,
only amidst extra-ordinary circumstances.
For instance, as far back as the 479 BC, Confucius, Master Kong Qiu as his name translates from Chinese remains the most important single philosopher in eastern history. He espoused significant principles of ethics and politics, in a time when the Greeks were espousing the same thing.
We think of democracy as a Greek invention, a Western idea, But Confucius wrote in his Analects that "the best government is one that rules through 'rites' and the people's natural morality, rather than using bribery and coercion. This may sound obvious to us today, but he wrote it in the early 500s to late 400s BC. It is the same principle that the Greeks argued for and developed: the people's morality is in charge, therefore rule by the people.
"An even distribution of political, economic, and military
capabilities between contending groups of states is likely to increase the
probability of war, peace is preserved best when there is imbalance of national
capabilities between disadvantaged and advantaged nations; the agressor will
come from a small group of dissatisfied strong countries; and it is the weaker,
rather than the stronger; power that is most likely to be the
aggressor"...A.F,K.Organski
What’s going on? Really…
During the
varying transitions of world power from as far back as Greece, then to Rome, to
Egypt, and all collectively amounting to modern civilization where information
travels at the speed of light, when sustainable development becomes a milestone
brain child issue of dialogue that may propel humanity to great heights.
This
is a time when we have become principle centered, recognizing the laws which
carefully and watchfully govern the earth. We have either by default or design
recognized and perhaps unwittingly adopted the models of God’s creation of
systems to adapt to life and living.
Becoming
more visible are the imperatives of recognizing the solvable natural and
artificial complexities of man, ranging from terrorism and accidents caused by
negligence to persistent natural disasters which there probably is a tendency
to agree with scientists is caused by man’s interference with the earth which
alters the eco-system.
The crucial
and consistent succession plan of continuous well documented historical research,
which birthed the mission and bedrock for education, has shaped the direction
of thought of mankind, in this way, the proactive sages of 'yester-centuries' painstakingly and perhaps inadvertently created what metamorphosed into schools,
which of course has literally evolved into a form which we can almost refer to
as close to abstract due to a seeming larger than life context of a collective
genuine passion for a few good men to add to the essential bottom line of
content.
For in as much as we may claim that evolution of man has come to a
halt, the brain still commands the capacity to spiral to a much higher level of
intelligence depending on how it is maximized.
Some may call it brain washing, countering it
with the ancient existence of religion, portending the extremism of
sentimentality.
By the way, does anyone by chance not admire the soulful Marvin Gaye? He became the voice of millions of people when he rendered his monster hit single 'What;s going on?'. Apparently, this was inspired due to the proliferation of the hate which the aftermath of slavery,wars, racism and poverty (of the mind) cause. Although he was however unfortunately murdered by his dad due to his drug addiction, but he left us with a mind bugging question which will continue to haunt us if we don't find an answer to it.
Perhaps its high time we thoroughly and creatively thought life through, honestly and transparently being proactive in the genuine development of the human life, rather than incite a perfectly planned real life chess game with human lives, orchestrating and exploitative model of stimulus and response which is beyond the hands and comprehension of the large number of stereotyped and unsuspecting victims regardless of the uneven distribution of resources. Some really do play God.
What's going on? its either no one actually knows, or perhaps we can conclude the the knowledge is scattered all over the world in clusters, thereby causing the future of humanity to be dependent on the unity of mankind.
Or it might be largely imperative for us to make a total overhaul of what is on ground in order to deliberately create the great future which we constantly visualize, of course it shall be the greatest benefit of mankind, leaving no one behind...I wish though.
Thank you very much.
Akin Abimbola (akinzogee@gmail.com)
SOURCES:
Goodreads
The Meanderings of a Comic Mind in Confusion
Listverse
Wikipedia
World Politics: A.F.K.Organski (!958)
