Facebook is an exploitation of our social instinct, that people-based bonding is so critical for our success as a species on planet Earth. That longing to find validity and comfort in groups. To be seen, to be known. To know. Herd behavior, in a traffic jam when you see everyone turning down a small side road to avoid the block, you follow. There is trust in mass decision-making. This is in our DNA. We are not as sophisticated and “independent” as some make out. The new currency has gone from gold to paper to ‘likes.’ as with those former currencies people are willing to sacrifice everything to have them, despite them having zero real-world value.
Mis Education: Killing Fields
Advice Mar 4, 2021
The common school system is akin to KFC fast food. That is all it is. And it is hard for many to accept because we are also victims of this system. We trust it with our kid’s education, we trust it when they say accept some more credit card and get into deeper debt. Why would you trust these people with your kid.? What does society want? Slaves that is it. They don’t teach critical thinking in school. They don’t teach them to be leaders in industry, only workers in industry disconnected from the process (Chomsky). They most certainly don’t teach them to think for themselves. The job of the system is to produce functionites.
African Consciousness
Advice Mar 28, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column] True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awakening of consciousness which goes through successive stages.— Ancient Egypt The discussion on African consciousness((African consciousness is a term used in pan-African circles to discuss someone’s state of being connected to African history and African identity and acting…
The common school system is akin to KFC fast food. That is all it is. And it is hard for many to accept because we are also victims of this system. We trust it with our kid’s education, we trust it when they say accept some more credit card and get into deeper debt. Why would you trust these people with your kid.? What does society want? Slaves that is it. They don’t teach critical thinking in school. They don’t teach them to be leaders in industry, only workers in industry disconnected from the process (Chomsky). They most certainly don’t teach them to think for themselves. The job of the system is to produce functionites.
Read moreWhites are the greatest perpetrators of Racism in our times. If you having problems with that statement then there is no need for me and you to discuss how we will deal with Racism. Slavery of African people was the greatest racist project in human history. Start here, not in Nazi Germany.
Read moreThe world as it is–not the world as we would like it to be, or the world of 3000 years ago has us not owning 99% of the things we use in our world. Not the DVDs, not the cars we drive and not even the food we eat.
Read moreTED is all fell good, rooted on the ideology of goodness. TED talks routinely present problems of huge scale and scope and then solve them with idealism. There is no antagonism or critical thinking and definitely not too much controversy on TED. But how many Afrocentrics or Pan-Africanist or Nation of Islam or Hebrews have been on the church of TED?
Read moreThe critical issue of business in the African world is pertinent in an era where globalization is an ever more encroaching phenomenon, and marginalization of groups failing to engage in business is creating greater economic disparity. Good business is critical for African development as well as a mechanism for self-determination.
Read moreDevelopment theory is essentially split into two worlds, the Liberalist-Capitalist mold and the Socialist-Communist mold. Some theorists also propose to fall somewhere in between the two extremes but many can be criticized of indecision.
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