I bookmarked this to respond later. Here you go.
I remember how I felt when I made my first 5K naira salary - it was the same feeling I had when I made my first 7 figure.
One of the first concepts I mastered was the art of "Joy Regardless".
I couldn't wait until everything makes sense, before I decided to be happy. That mindset have remained consistent throughout my journey.
And about your question? If I could have imagined my current reality then? Guy yes.
I always told my friends: "My chances of making it are higher than my chances of finding love"
I believe in myself die - and I don't allow the variable of brilliance delude me from the necessity of consistently deepening capacity.
Post NYSC, when I was struggling in the dirt of dirts. 20K teaching job with 3 tutorial hustles.
I would come back every evening, wear my nicest shirt and walk into a car shop - pockets empty.
"I like the rims on this one, do you have the color in black?"
"Hmmm. The price isn't bad. Can I see the BMW equivalent?"
I'd do this from car shop to car shop. Not because I wanted to waste their time, swimming in delusion or had nothing better to do with my time but I understood the power of visualization.
Sportsmen use it all the time.
You see bah, you stay long in a particular situation - your system starts to normalize it. You start to figure out how to "manage".
" 20K salary abi. Well, if I see like 50K own. I'll just try and walk 2km instead of entering bus"
This is worse than comfort zone because there's no iota of comfort and you're slowly conditioning yourself to optimize it as your new normal.
I found ways to constantly put fire in mybosom.
To make your dreams nightmares, and your living daylight daydreams. Visualization helps you to see what is possible.
It doesn't have to be with cars, but it has to be with variables incredibly beyond your reach at the moment.
You'll never be big. You'll never grow. You'll never breakforth - if your mind hasn't first conceived the possibility of that future.
Don't let your mind condition what's supposed to be a bus stop for you, become a final destination.
I disagree!
A society that rewards foolishness over brilliance already has a problem. If the end justifies every means, then we’ve abandoned any standard beyond profit.
Not every profitable path deserves to be celebrated.
This is the olodo uprising we're talking about.
This girl had a niche. Always sounded so polished and put together in her interviews; until she decided to link up with peller because peller was racking up views
Now listen to the way she sounds like a motor park agbero. She couldn't influence peller. She couldn't polish peller. Rather, peller has her speaking and acting like him.
But through all this, she asked an important question: "your president nko? Did he go to school?"
I hope you all can now see why many of us fought tooth and nail to stop Tinubu from becoming president; but many others (and sadly highly educated people) supported him and helped him rig his way to the presidency.
Now, he has become a poster boy; one that boldly passes the message that not only do you not need education to achieve the highest office in the land, but you also do not have to worry about leading a life free of crime.
What Ycee refers to as Peller culture is actually Tinubu and APC culture
The attack on the education nerve Centre in Nigeria was heralded and is sustained by the APC because an educated populace is one that asks questions and demands accountability. An educated populace is one with the potential to revolt.
Therefore, they do their best to make sure people like peller and his like get platforms to keep showing impressionable naija youth that not only do they not need education, but also that they can make money by putting their foolishness on display; and by so doing, reduce the possibility of the government being held accountable by them.
The steep decline, rot, and decay in our educational system started the moment APC got into power.
Olodo uprising = APC uprising
Ycee only used Peller as euphemism and didn’t single him out for attack, but because these people are illiterates from Olodo uprising, they don’t understand the context of euphemism.
The TRUTH sounds like an insult/attack when it hits the conscience.
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8 Afcon
8 Euros
8 Copa America
16 champions leagues
16 Europa League
16 premier leagues
16 Fa cups
16 laliga
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I've not seen it yet but I can bet my left testicle - someone somewhere is tweeting about Ycee's projected networth and how Peller is 20x richer than Ycee so Ycee is jealous.
I am sure.
A culturally bankrupt society whose source of validation comes from asslicking the wealthy.
No Ideological compass. No guiding principle. No strength. Just "I get money pass you".
A congregation of fools, from whence no progress is in sight.
You know why sane societies thrive out here? Because people don't fucking care what you have.
The concept of human dignity exists. Even the poor will stand tall in the face of the wealthy and battle opinion for opinion.
Phones are merely for calls. Cars are merely for transportation. Not status symbols.
Until the day you decentre ranking people and prioritising their opinions based on the depths of their pockets - you will always be bottom feeders.
Peller is not the problem IMO.
The real issue is a broken system designed to neglect and ignore intellect. A system that has consistently undermined the efforts of promising talents across academia, forcing our brightest minds to “japa” or settle for less.
BBN pays 100M+ to winners, a reality show, fine. But most schools can’t even award their best graduating students ₦100k. The state can’t guarantee them jobs. In my time, our best graduating student, an exceptionally brilliant guy destined for greatness now works as a successful freelancer, digital analyst and YouTuber. He’s doing really well, but that mind was built for more. Top-tier virologist material, serving the nation. We lost that potential and so many others.
Youth unemployment is at a high, quite alarming for nation with immense potential and one of the youngest population average on the planet.
We churn out graduates yearly but fail to harness them. It’s time to fix the system and not bash the symptoms.
This is your second comment on my post so I'll give you the attention you so badly want.
1. Nobody said graduating with good grades makes you superior to an illiterate. That's a strawman, it wasn't the claim on the table. The actual argument is about what society chooses to celebrate and platform.
2. You are essentially arguing: educated people aren't impressive until they do something remarkable. Fairs. But then by that same standard, what remarkable thing does the Peller template produce? Just one thing is fine.
Also "you've only crammed someone's postulates" is a tired anti-education talking point. If you're illiterate, be that in peace..don't try to downplay educated people to feel good about yourself
Seen that video and tbh I don't think there's any shade to Peller because Peller is just doing what works. He found an audience, he's feeding it, he's winning by the metrics available to him. That doesn't make him stupid in any way...it's not an insult to him.
The core argument is that we Nigerians have normalized and keep rewarding low-effort, low-intelligence public figures to the point where it's reshaping cultural values, especially for young people. Peller isn't doing anything harmful per se, but the engagement he gets in relation to people doing more important things says so much about the audience. Now, so many people believe you don't need to build anything or know anything to become influential on social media.
When intelligent students in schools sees an olodo with nothing to offer having millions of followers online, getting brand deals, buying cars and houses while their very intelligent seniors have nothing to show for finishing school with good grades, they begin to see school as not so important after all.
He didn't criticise Peller, he is criticising everyone that made Peller and people like Peller, the influential figure that they are today; a kind of dominant template. Peller is only a symptom of the sickness we are suffering from as a society.