Capra Crocotta

Materialist analysis. Anti-imperialist structural critique.

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

Abandon the illusion of moral outcomes. There is no 'supposed to' in structural politics. There is only the historical evidence of what has already happened, and the material conditions dictating what will happen next.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This perspective is actually only partially true.

During my first 2-3 years in the university, I studied relentlessly from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM, a grueling 12 hours every single day(with minimal breaks especially for tests and exams), and I would have easily done more, but our school library was only open for that small operational window.

I devoured Soviet textbooks from Mir Publishers, classical Cambridge treatises in calculus, advanced analysis, differential equations and also French books on abstract algebra. But even with all of this deep, rigorous, and exhausting study, I still painfully struggled with non-standard problems in advanced mathematics, and I had absolutely no practical idea how to formulate, execute or publish my own independent mathematical research.

Still, I stubbornly continued to study, constantly buying hard copies and downloading PDFs.
I deeply understood the fundamental principles, the foundational axioms, and could effortlessly replicate complex proofs on a blackboard. But the very moment it came to actually carrying out my own independent research, or tackling novel problems, I would completely freeze. It was as if my brain completely stopped thinking the second I dropped the books.

So, for this exact reason, I made a drastic decision(during my third year): I completely stopped reading. I picked out a very difficult mathematical problem, and made a solemn vow to myself never to open a single textbook until I found the solution entirely on my own. I deleted all social media apps from my phone, disconnected my Wi-Fi, and turned off my internet connection completely. After two solid days of intense research, I emerged not only with the complete solution to that specific problem, but I also derived a detailed, generalized mathematical blueprint for solving that entire class of problems.

This was the exact, transformative moment I realized what had been critically missing from my study routine all along. I had never taken the necessary time to engage in deep, independent thinking, to truly digest, internalize, and synthesize what I had learned. Instead, I had been mindlessly, passively, and uncritically accumulating raw knowledge strictly for knowledge's sake.

Textbooks and academic treatises should only ever be viewed as basic guides, structural maps, or starting points, and never as a substitute for raw, independent, and creative human thinking. Now, I regularly go out for long walks, often staying outside for up to five hours at a time, pacing around the compound to think. Walking, pacing, and solitary contemplation are precisely how I do advanced mathematics, conceptualize systems, and draft my essays.

Extensive, rigorous, and disciplined reading is essential, but it must unconditionally be accompanied by deep, original, and active thinking outside the books. This is the single most vital piece of advice I desperately wish someone had given me when I was younger.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This is completely false.
The massive $30 billion Paris Club debt was never cancelled on a silver platter. To secure that debt relief deal in 2005, Nigeria was forcefully compelled to create the NEEDS programme and unconditionally adopt the core tenets of the Washington Consensus. This is the exact, structural reason why Nigeria completely failed to industrialize, why our manufacturing capacity was decimated, and why our critical social infrastructure, public healthcare, primary education, and electricity grids remain severely, catastrophically underfunded to this very day. 1/6

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

@Shen_X67 @moidsexposed The objective truth is simply that your god, the god of Abraham, Yahweh is a fictional character. End.

[rajesh @rajesh62]

@Rothmus wealth was extracted out of Germany after WWi by the victors via the Treaty of Versailles

as a result the economy had currency but no value

that was the foundation of the German hyperinflation

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

@TWikiriwhi @UgoCannon And who said that?

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

@WARPUG @UgoCannon Wrong. You are claiming that Yahweh and Jesus are not shitty fictional characters, the burden falls on you to provide evidence for their existence. Which would be extremely easy to do if they were not just shitty fictional characters.

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

@ShotMessinjure @UgoCannon I think the Universal force empowered Spiderman could fly 🤔. Being long since I read that comic.

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

@Valkenstei63591 @___TheGOOdWitch A person's body is theirs to do with as they wish -- as long as it does not harm another independent being, which a foetus is not.

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

@Shen_X67 @moidsexposed .. unaffiliated make up roughly 16% of the global population, while Abrahamic faiths sit around 55%. It pathetic that you would result to inventing false demographic data just because a profile image triggered your religious panic..

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

@Shen_X67 @moidsexposed The amount of people who subscribe to ancient religious mythology has zero bearing on its objective truth; it simply demonstrates the historical efficiency of generational indoctrination and imperial conquest.

Also, your statistics are entirely fabricated. The religiously ..

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Cows are about to lose their jobs too

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

@WislynMoline @Ernest1588761 And is it not the system's fault?

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

@General_Oluchi He will learn nothing. This may even make him a temporary icon in the rape-apologetics circle.

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

@reasremon1 @DCHomos The post is both scaring and hilarious. It is like those rare nightmares that you wake up from, laughing and afraid 😭

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

This woman is moronic 🤦🏾‍♂️

"Forget about tribe."

"The difference is just language."

Nigerians! How did we get here!? This bitch has to be above the age of 25 and she is still this dull and foolish 😭

[Joie De Vivre @Naughtybynatu7e]

He nor go better for igbon

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

Edos are Edos. Many noice. Many morons. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[Joie De Vivre @Naughtybynatu7e]

He nor go better for igbon

[2Cents @Ijustwantpiss]

@instablog9ja She doesn't know what's hitting her and she doesn't have the strength to deal with it. I understand her. Somebody tell her this is it.

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

More noice. More morons.

[3RDking of Bayelsa @3rdking2]

South South republic or nothing:

Na only Edo State we go remove 🤣

Edo people no dey behave like southteners.

[Capra Crocotta @cprcta]

@cyrealmusic @3rdking2 There is no such thing as South-South Nigeria amd there will never be one. You are all arguing nonsense.