this is the kind of stuff people should be taught during media literacy classes. media are such manipulative bastards that if you’re not careful they fuck up your entire worldview:
Imagine you're in a fight with a powerful adversary who lives in a faraway town. Let’s call him Gringo.
Because Gringo lives very far away, he cannot attack you directly from his home due to the huge costs and technicalities involved.
Gringo then approaches some of your neighbours for assistance. Your neighbours give him some rooms in their homes where he stores weapons, and from where he coordinates his attacks on your home.
This makes Gringo’s attacks on you very effective and his latest attack kills your father and some of your family members.
Since you also cannot directly attack Gringo’s faraway home due to huge costs, technicalities, and a potentially disastrous aftermath, you decide to attack and destroy the rooms given to Gringo by your neighbours so that he can no longer store weapons and coordinate attacks on you so easily.
I hope this analogy helps those who are wondering why Iran is attacking its neighbours.
Colonialism really did something on us. Seeing Africans belittle african spirituality while defending and invoking Christianism is so heartbreaking oooh
There was a young man in a certain village who owned a small radio.
Every morning, the elders tuned the radio to hear news about land, weather, prices, and warnings of trouble ahead.
But when it was his turn, he turned the knob only when music played.
One day, the radio started showing pictures.
Beautiful faces, soft smiles, and smooth skin.
The young man sat for hours staring.
He forgot to eat, work, and listen.
When the rains destroyed his farm, he said, “Nobody warned me.”
When hunger came, he said, “Life is hard.”
When his mates moved ahead, he said, “God when?”
But the radio had been speaking every day.
He just tuned it only to what pleased his eyes.
An old man passed and said,
“If the thing that excites you does not educate you, correct you, or prepare you, it is quietly destroying you.”
Beauty is not the problem.
Attention is.
If most of what moves you are pictures of fine girls, while your life remains empty, then your future will pay the price for your appetite.
A man’s downfall rarely starts with bad intentions.
It starts with harmless interests that overstayed.
Story don end.
INALEGWU.
We are in 2026, and Africans still think Moral compassion, God, or International laws will protect us against imperialism!
😂😂😂
Delusion
As Steve Bantu Biko once said:
"I would like to remind the Black Church, and indeed all black people, that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people’s problems on earth."
We better stop these delusions.
A businessman once bought a massive diamond in South Africa, about the size of an egg yolk.
But to his disappointment, the stone had a crack inside.
He took it to a skilled jeweler, hoping for advice.
The jeweler examined it carefully and said:
“This diamond can be split into two perfect gems, each worth more than the original stone. But one wrong strike and it will shatter into worthless fragments. I won’t take that risk.”
The businessman traveled the world, showing the diamond to jewelers in many countries.
Each one gave the same answer: "Too risky".
Finally, someone told him about an old master jeweler in Amsterdam known for his golden hands.
He flew there the same day.
The old jeweler studied the diamond through his monocle and warned him again of the risk.
The businessman interrupted:
“I’ve heard that story before. I’m ready. Just do it.”
The jeweler nodded, agreed on the price, then turned to a young apprentice working quietly nearby.
The boy took the diamond, placed it on his palm, and struck it once, clean and precise.
The stone split beautifully into two flawless gems.
Without even looking up, he handed them back to the master.
Astonished, the businessman asked:
“How long has he been working for you?”
The old jeweler smiled.
“This is his third day. He doesn’t know the real value of the stone, that’s why his hand didn’t tremble.”
Sometimes the more we fear losing something, the less capable we become of doing what needs to be done.
Treat life’s challenges as if they are lighter than they seem, and your hand will stay steady.