For some, social media may just be a platform for leisure or something to help pass the time. However, to those with three eyes, social media is one of the greatest gifts humankind could have ever received.
Its magnificence is immeasurable, and its dormant potential can be a frustration. Albeit its potency to easily solve most of societal issues and lead to a transformation we can only dream of, many have minimised it to trivial gossip and “underwear” issues.
Even when society is faced with issues that call for a collective discourse and self-correction, social media reflects a mindset of people who seem to feel no responsibility or role in resolving even their chronic day-to-day issues. It is this tendency that has visibly created more keyboard warriors than citizens who know that their stake in the future will be predetermined by their collective actions and responsibility.
The degeneracy in its rampant exhibition is not only shameful but laughable. Just a simple scroll on the local social media content in comparison to, for example, the global east gives a picture of two completely different worlds. With such evidence, there is absolutely not even one question as to why our markets are flooded with products that we proudly show off, yet we have no knowledge or skills to produce them.
That should not only be something to irk those upon whom the power is entrusted to lead to the promised land, but also demonstrates the state of an unconscious people – a picture of a people whose independent critical thinking either lies dormant or is completely diminished.
Having a dream is more than worthwhile, but not without a vision and a plan. Looking at the current state of our society, it seems as if we have no dreams or we literally sleep on them while expecting someone else to make them a reality. This is because, from our words, not only our character shall be known, but our circumstances will reciprocate too.
Needless to say, it should not be surprising to see a society on a highway to self-destruction when its daily interactions and discourses are the exhibit. It is sad to have a society whose disposition is predominantly preoccupied with prolonging index fingers to magnify the faults we see in others while shortening and dwarfing the rest of the fingers pointing at our filth.
To progressively transform society into not only one we could be proud of but also a safe haven for our offspring to thrive, we must develop and adopt the culture of holding ourselves accountable and politely reprimanding those who are holding us back. To achieve this, we must raise our standards and lower our tolerance for BS. If we must critically grow in our thinking as a collective, we must disassociate with degenerative sentiments and small talk. For it is a no-brainer that people with no greater and clear purpose eventually succumb to ceaselessly seeking pleasure and fun at every opportunity given.
This is because a highly infested environment with sexual freedom, alcohol and entertainment is not only easy to control and manipulate but also depletes and wastes its own life force that it could utilise for continuous and constructive transformation. It becomes a society that is desensitised to issues of great concern, and a ship at sea with no predetermined destination.
It can be likened to a world waiting for Jesus to come; while the entrance is locked for him to enter, the key is lost, and everyone is too busy having fun to find it.
*Uncommon Sense is published bi-weekly in the New Era with contributions from Karlos Naimwhaka. YouTube channel: Karlos Lokos
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