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Leadership
Re-education

ocial media is full of belli- are said to keep society going… or to force their compliance to their
cose individuals, whose en- they are a part of them. Imagine a will, despite abundant evidence
tire pursuit is to belittle and world or system that is controlled by and feedback from the parents and
Sdemean others, while touting people with such sick and arrogant the children that the educational
their own greatness, by displaying attitudes. So you do not have to program they are insisting on rolling
their certificates and achievements wonder to much why life is the way out is not working for the people
in one religious, academic or techni- it is. they are supposed to be serving.
cal field and career or another.
“I have 10 years’ experience”; As they walk around proclaiming Lawyers and judges alike, who enjoy
“I have 3 Master’s degrees and 2 their ‘greatness’, they spare not one regaling or disparaging each other
PhDs”; “I know the President, thought for the true reality that is with fancy words and statutes, will
personally”; “Do you know who playing out around them, in the not pause for a moment to consider
my dad is?” “I have been in politics domains where they are said to the high levels of injustice in their
longer than you have been alive”; have ‘stamped’ their authority or land, when the man who stole US$2
“I had a personal revelation from left their mark. By doing so, they is imprisoned for years, while the
God”… on and on they go, before miss the opportunity for humility one who stole US$2 billion goes
they drop the final pieces of their to catch up with them, and to cause free, because of ‘who he is’, or who
braggadocious bombs on their hap- them to have a life-saving change he paid off, and he is allowed to
less targets: “What have YOU got to of course. And because of their steal again. Mr President or Prime
show for yourself? You are nothing, missed opportunities, the younger Minister have no qualms enjoying
worthless, unqualified to speak in generation, within the space of their the bounty of the land and selling it
my presence, let alone breathe the influence are left unguided or at best to former and new colonizers, while
rarified air that I breathe.” influenced negatively. So, these self- the men and women who fought
claimed experts go about flaunting for their country’s independence,
This structure of arrogant aggres- their peacock feathers but remain ir- and their children are living in abject
sion spreads through the various relevant for things that really matter. poverty, ignored and rejected.
strata of social media ‘hierarchy’,
which mirrors the existing societal Mister, Madam or Doctor degree Financial and economic experts
hierarchy, where those who have a holder will not blink an eye as they will not consider that all their fancy
little more than the rest exert their drive past rivers that are black with economic modeling is not working,
own version on them, and on and pollutants and full of filth, on their in the light of the increasing gap
on. Turning social media interac- way to receive an award for their between those who have money
tions into virtual minefields and work in improving their environ- and those who do not, plunging
battlefields which explode, every ment. Reverend or Archbishop those who do not into desperate
now and then, with varying degrees so-and-so will rest easy, in garments economic times – they will not think
of hostility, and the outcome yields lined with gold, and bejeweled orna- that it matters that one person lacks
new ‘kings of the castle’. Social ments adorning their fingers, while while the other has more than they
media has become a place where a little children play in the filth around can use. They actually think that
simple conversation or comment the black rivers of death, eating is how the system works, because
can be misconstrued and twisted maggots because the poor little that is what they were taught in
to mean almost anything under the humans thought they are rice, and their fine-fine business schools and
Experts have conversations that are ‘saner’ gold were their birthright, instead tions that were caused either by the
courses. Medical professionals will
sun, causing many to retreat into si-
throwing their poop away in plastic
bags. The ‘men of God’ act as if the
lence or direct messages where they
use complex treatments for condi-
and more controlled. And the trend
of the works of compassion they
complex medical treatments they
used before, or by the chemicals that
claim to align themselves to. The
is not stopping.
were put in the food and water that
Minister or Permanent Secretary
But the worst part of all that is,
of Education, with all their various
their patients consumed. And they
these arrogant online braggarts are
will hail themselves and each other
degrees and qualifications, will not
either a reflection of the self-pro-
of state to fight against the parents
solving a problem that no one else
claimed ‘elites’ who are running the
could solve – while the cause of the
of the children they are saying they
affairs of the governments, busi- think it dumb to use the instruments for their innovation and savvy in
in useless and lifeless things nesses, INGOs and whatnot, that want to ‘educate and empower’, and disease goes unknown, misunder-
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