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We often look, but barely see...


Being awake, is deemed being conscious in the physical world but what does it truly mean to be conscious?

Does it have to do with just having our eyes open nor is there a deeper meaning of the concept of consciousness? 

Many of us are wide awake and utilize our conscious minds during our waking hours but we are in utter oblivion of what we should be shifting the focus of our eye on. To look, is not to see; however, one has to look in order to see. A paradox that will utterly perplex the individuals who are only physically conscious. In the physical world, materials are what the general population deem more valuable than any other aspects of life. 

A smattering of people control a preponderance of individuals in a subtle way. 

The word “subtle” elucidates the fact that not every person who is wide awake in the physical world is conscious. Consciousness, is way deeper than that. It is seeing things nor life at a different eye from the masses; hence, the shrewd ones often refer to this concept as “independent thinking”. It is having the ability to see the world from your own perspective, not from the media’s eye nor the unscrupulous politicians’ eye. So many laws are being promulgated by the government, without the people’s consent; yet the constitution states that the people are in power of their own country. If the people are in power, then why do they nod to everything that their government, who’s supposed to serve them, orders them to do?

It seems, the general population is in dire need of gobs of caffeine…

The way I see it, people are being sold dreams of attaining power to impel them to obliviously give away their power to the government. Hence, the legendary Marcus Garvey once said “The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than both of them”.  Which makes perfect sense why and how politicians, easily obtain the minds of the credulous characters, who are commonly known as “the general population”. Like the great Bantu Biko, once said “the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor, is the mind of the oppressed”. 

Indeed, we see this daily. An example, we would all feasibly comprehend, is the interactions between parents and their bambinos. We were induced to believe in Tooth fairy, Santa Claus, Caucasian Jesus, St Valentine and all the European characters that they utilize to fleece Africans…the sad part is that our parents are as oblivious as us, that they’re being led astray; it’s a food chain of feeding one another poison, in order for the foreign capitalist to gain all the money that, if used shrewdly, could’ve ameliorated Africans' economical status. Our eyes are wide open to the materials and in nirvana of the real intentions of these materials, which is to subtly induce Africans to voluntarily offer their hard earned money to offer these capitalists to augment their own continents’ economies while leaving Africa bereaved and being convinced that it is the querencia of poverty.

They use some of the profit they’ve acquired to put it to goodwill by buying food to donate to Africans, instead of teaching them skills in order for them to be able to feed themselves; the whole idea is to ensure that Africans become sempiternally dependent on the ones who are currently in acquisition of power. We look at the poverty that we were convinced to believe that it is intrinsic to us. 

Our credulity, helps them to feasibly sell us this “poor Africa and European saviors nor Samaritans” idea; the saddest part is that we buy it, we even default on our own dreams in order to offer them credit which is not due to them.

It is enormously paramount to clean and cleanse our eye, so we can start seeing the truth that’s hidden in plain sight. 

We shall not only indulge in looking, rather, we should see the possibilities and opportunities that are there for us to succeed as a nation.


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