Humans + Materialism
‘’He
gives twice who gives promptly.’’ -Publilius
Syrus (1st century BC)
By Ahmed Dodo
The current
refugees’ flights from Syria and other part of the earth have once again
exposed our claim to be the most intelligent creature in the world as mere
fallacy of the human imagination. The daily migration of human species is a
sign that all is not too well in our celebrated planet; because unlike few
fortunate once amongst us with roofs, clothes and steamy food to grub on our
tables, other humans like us are daily trekking through thick and thin to
survive under the sun; thus exposing a compelling sketch of the reality of the
battered world we live in and the glaring truth on the ground.
The veracity is the
fact that upon all our intelligence, celebration of power, position and
intellectualism we are still yet to get the gears of life on the right course.
We have failed to glance back to the past and comprehend the reality before us
that we are slowly sneaking onto another form of modern slavery, fascism and
other glaring realism of class, colour and economic segregation. We are yet to
really gawk at our existence in this temporary space that everything under the
sun is all illusion that must one day melt into ruins.
Our celebrated great nations and fortified
countries are mere fallacy which would in the future be a topic of discussion
among the next generations in class rooms as part of history. Just like the tyrannical
stories of King Pharaoh and his failed realm, the now once upon a time great
Roman Empire, the futile human degradation of Africans called slavery, and the
illusive Aryan dream of Hitler.
Presently we are
all witnesses to another historical tragedy playing before our eyes, as we
selfishly gaze at other human beings like us, kids and innocent children
struggled across the Atlantic to have a better life in this temporary world
some of us are greedily holding unto. We are playing ‘a –look- and -sleep
attitude to this present modern day
tyranny, allowing power hungry dictator
like Assad send millions of men ,women and children scampering like beast across
the globe; while we merely keep on
discussing and talking politics as innocent children and their parents gets
daily drown on high seas.
Thank God, there
are still thoughtful human species among us today that are boldly standing up
to this human degradation call refugee. Great motherly women like Germany
chancellor, Angela Merkel, whose sole compassion as a true human being makes
her voice and her personality in my view and I believe in other prudent minds the
undisputable number one woman in our ephemeral world.
Gratefully we are
also witnesses to the tremendous role she has been playing against this human
disgrace. Her voice so far is the loudest and the most comforting since the
beginning of this idiocy. Her mind has remain the most generous and her hands
the most warmly and safe. This woman’s frame and image is no doubt currently
the most outstanding among us today, and I believe the fate of life would be
kind to her and place her among saints.
She has dared to
give from her shelter, while others have closed their barns and hide their
keys. She is standing boldly and daily addressing this blight, while men and
women in position like her or greater are daily chickening out to hide under
the comforts of their vanity and materialism.
It is my believe
therefore that when the time come for those who stood up against this current
human depredation Angela Merkel shall stand tall like an Iroko tree among men and women. Syrians and the other hundreds of
refugees from other oppressed nations who were fortunate to be alive today
through her kind motherly gesture would stand up bold tomorrow to remember her
mink of kindness and their children and grand children would be proud to sing
her folklore, and her consciously believe
and famous statement that ‘’ We
can do it.’’ ; Would always resonate in generations to come.
The fact that we
have long abandoned the famous Geneva agreement of freedom and equality to all
races and the reality that we are now more self-centered and enmeshed in cheap
materialism worship and preservation as witnessed across Hungary, Snovia,
Croatia, Bulgaria and other not so friendly nations who brazenly closed their
gates to these traumatized humans no doubt has cast a shame on us as the most
intelligent species on earth.
It is a shame that
we are holding on voraciously to the free geographical land created by God and
daily dehumanizing one another over border crossings and mercilessly maiming
innocent lives over shelter and other materialistic comforts that would at long
run metamorphose into ruins and eyesores.
Again the verity
that the so-called super powers like America, Russia, France and Germany who
have long folded their hands but are now waking up after the barbaric Paris
showcased their nonchalant attitudes to the hundreds of lives being daily
wasted in Africa, specifically in Nigeria through deadly attacks by Boko Haram.
They had all hitherto been playing politics
with the lives of millions of endangered humans across traumatized countries
while their nations continue to burn in flame through the selfish ambitions of
few greedy men and women. This made nonsense their artificial grip in world’s
affairs and exposed their weakness as modern colonists with sole interest in
wealth pilfering and plundering.
The celebrated richness
of Europe and its vast web of different nations and various lands have remained
obscure in this current human migration as the daily internal squabble among
them on ideology and the best sensible way to arrest this pathetic situation
has still remained a mirage to them.
Thanks to Angela Merkel, whose sole voice has remained firm and audible
amidst other squeaking voices of European leaders; the situation could have been worse and
greater catastrophe would have befall these helpless fleeing human beings among
us.
While the Arab
world itself has failed its Arab neighbors, their back-stab they should
comprehend would someday hit them on the face. The fact that they folded their
hands while Assad and his cohorts lighted the dangerous flame in Syrian and watch
the IS take over their land should not be view as a distance fire that could
not reach their lands, because common sense has thought us that a raging fire
knows no bound. They should be ready to face their own blaze alone when the
flames spray dangerously over their fortified nations.
There is no doubt
that we can still prove ourselves to be that species of creation with the most
intelligent caring minds and helpful hands if we can stop playing politics with
the lives of other human beings like us and give assistance promptly to these
deserving men and women, children and the elderly whose only desire is to live
peacefully and resourcefully in their lands until that final day that they will
definitely and naturally bade farewell to this materialistic world, just like
all of us someday.
Comments
Post a Comment