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Re-Education

ic excellence in a specific field that actually have control over. Behind
‘eased’ them into a specific career the scenes of these global-facing
path; pregnancy that ‘got’ them into activities are scientists, engineers,
marriage; connections that ‘facilitat- salesmen, marketers, CEOs, janitors,
ed’ access to a club, a house, a car; drivers, all of whom are part of
and on and on, committing time and the system of global terrorism and
resource to this happenstance with control. They are fathers, mothers,
great determination and dedication. sisters, brothers, sons and daughters
And they settled into it believing this who are all compromised or com-
Chioma Phillips is the Editor of Msingi Afrika Mag-
azine and the host of Msingi Afrika Television. Her was the sum of the plan for their promising the global environment as
hope is to see the Truth shared, with all who will listen, lives. I would even venture so far as they pursue a stable income and the
for the transformation of the people and the continent of to say that they forced themselves fulfillment of their personal aspira-
Afrika - and the world. to believe it, choosing to silence that tions. Blind (deliberately or not) to
‘little’ voice inside that told them the outcome of their decisions to
otherwise. I’m sure of it. participate.
system; their employer (or business)
is contributing to the mess; and Zig Ziglar is quoted as saying that Foolishness loves company, it seems.
there are things going on worldwide
that are, quite frankly, disastrous for “Little men with little minds and The world over, regimes have cho-
the global populace. That lofty place little imaginations go through life sen to deploy fear as a weapon of
these individuals think they hold, it in little ruts, smugly resisting all choice to control the people who
changes which would jar their little
are meant to be under their steward-
turns out, is right at the bottom of worlds.” And we wonder how evil ship. Thinking that they can actually
the pit, along with most of the rest
of mankind. tends to prevail on earth? For every control an instrument of darkness
man or woman who has created a and use it to bring forth light.
nuclear weapon, there is another Sounds like something out of a
How on earth did this ever happen? who has created a bigger, ‘badder’ Marvel movie plot, where the villain
How did they miss this? They ask one. What does this mean? The or a mistaken good guy believes that
themselves. Well, simply put, what
they prioritized became the singu- people who have their hearts set darkness can be his friend. While it
lar focus of their life’s story, and on destruction are not truly able to may work, for a time, to bring peo-
therefore of their life’s journey, and think beyond that level to the pos- ple into subjugation to something,
it will not be long before the people
sibility of what would require actual
now what they are dealing with is work and investment in order to grow weary and choose to fight
the fruit of their choices to embrace
some things and neglect others transform, heal and give life instead. back. Man was not created to live
that they deemed as being of less So, they play in their little sandboxes under the oppression of fear. Those
significance. They have gained the of mutually assured destruction in- who are in charge of running the
affairs of state know this, but they
sisting that is the only way in which
entirety of their dream, achieved the to maintain balance on earth. Using push it as far as they can to try to
highest heights of their aspirations
but they have lost the totality of the threat of death and annihilation get their way for as long as possible.
their life’s purpose and have contrib- as the instruments with which to This is unfortunate. For, in the final
uted to the corruption of everything keep one another in line. While, reckoning of things, the responses
of the people may even be fueled
behind the scenes, they go to work
around them in so-doing, by failing on yet bigger and ‘worserer’ weap- by anger and frustration. The things
to participate in the real reason they
are here on earth. ons in order to retain the dominant that are done by an angry people
position for purposes of greater who are fueled by the fear of unjust
global manipulation. That, really, is control over their lives can yield
Sincerely speaking, most people in the total summation of what ‘inter- results that are so much worse than
the world barely have a clue as to national relations’ have been. If it is the original attempts by govern-
who they are, or why they were even
born in the first place. They have not nuclear threats, it is the very real ments to control their people. But
never taken the time to engage with threat of coups, the spread of dis- governments know this, that is why
that aspect of their life’s journey, ease, the destruction of an economy, they invest in anti-riot equipment,
and other weapons. To protect
the assassination of a leader… All
choosing instead to go with what negative. All small-minded efforts to themselves from the outcomes of
looks like the flow such as: academ-
control something that they do not their own foolish and evil choices.

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