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Leadership

again. Your head begins to spin and then I will say well, modernity is who watched the show, a twisted
swim and question everything you stupid and wasteful and greedy and and corrupt mindset about what life
were ever told or taught; everything a shameful way to live and we must and “making it” in life is all about.
you had believed and based your stop it. For if the men of the stone Then tomorrow we complain that
world on. age, even in their supposed primitive the rate of rape, adultery, suicide
thinking, could live and maintain among young people, internet fraud
It never crossed your mind that peo- a clean, unpolluted, healthy, nat- is increasing.
ple can be repeatedly unjust. Like, it ural environment that is alive and
wasn’t a mistake, it was a choice they thriving in community, love, kind- Grown men and women, some
made about how they want to live ness, mindfulness etc. then I think of them married will go on air,
their lives… all the while confin- we need to go back to that age. Just on international television, dress
ing you to a box of limitations of maybe we can clean up the madness in almost nothing, drink stupid-
acting righteously towards them and we have created as societies. ly, seduce one another, have sex,
others, or else. Yet, there they were, How can we go from crying one day cheat on spouses and then walk out
these anomalies. Using the system that there is pollution and supposed and face their friends and family
to justify their wrongdoings and to global warming to the next day as if what they did was perfectly
keep you bound and restrained… offering some stupid deal on Black acceptable and normal; and some
and, worse yet, profiting from it Friday for people to queue over- other grown men and women (even
financially and in other ways, all at night to get, and then throw away some of those not grown) will sit
your expense. the following year due to some mad and watch, and others will applaud,
reason? Honestly, mankind, we can vote and model their lives on this
A world filled with foolishness do better. madness. Equal participants in the
My brother has a computer. An corrupt practices of society. I used
iMac. He got it many years ago for A world celebrating corruption Big Brother as the example here,
his business, looked after it well, it and evil but is this not the same thing with
still runs just fine, but Apple is not I think that Big Brother Africa and politicians or business people who
supporting it anymore (for those all related franchises on the conti- we watch engaging in utter madness
who have experienced this with nent (and elsewhere), is one of the and robbery at our expense and
iPhones, I’m sure you can relate) so best illustrations of the sickness and then applaud as heroes and even
it’s not possible to update certain corruption that has entered into celebrate, refusing to let them pay
crucial elements or run some of the minds and hearts of people in for their crimes?
the more ‘modern’ programs on it. Afrika, since our relatives of bygone
It’s like watching the slow, painful years engaged in the slave trade as A world filled with cowardice
death of someone who has so much dealers in the bodies of men. Young The worst thing about cowardice,
left to offer, but more than that, it’s men and women of sound body about being afraid to do anything to
just dumb. Planned obsolescence is (possibly) but doubtfully of sound fight against the things in the world
dumb. Forcing someone to spend mind, will enter an enclosed space, and in the society that are actually
over US $1000 on an item that they having signed away any claim they destroying us as a people, is that it is
then look after really well and run may have had to privacy, and put on behavior that is taught and handed
for decades, only for you to with- a show of the most appalling and down from generation to genera-
draw support for it, while it still unnecessary debauchery that they tion. Parents can pass it on to their
functions – just so that you can sell can conjure up in those unsound children, having received it from
them a new one, which you will do minds, so as to win the popular vote their own parents or developed
the same thing to later is beyond from a group of people who have within themselves as a result of
stupid. Then we decry the moun- nothing better to do with their lives the harsh treatment of the system
tains of electronic waste in our en- than salivate over the hedonistic around them. While no one enjoys
vironment, or find a foolish country activities on the screen. The ultimate being treated like trash in their own
to dump the load on, as we continue winner walks away with a cash prize country, especially for doing the
to purchase and throw away things and some other junk that will all be right thing, refusing to deal with is-
in a way that only serves to speak of spent, lost, damaged or thrown away sues because of that harsh treatment
our own lack of wisdom… it is just in a short space of time, leaving ensures that the problems will re-
stupid. And if you say it’s moder- behind in the memory of the many main and even become entrenched.
nity and that we have to upgrade… millions including kids and youths There is no iota of safety in a choice

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