An infamous tyrannical leader criticised his fellow tyrant when his population revolted against the widespread hunger and food shortages in his country. He said: "Mjinga yule! That idiot! He kept his people too hungry! I told him many times, feed them just enough, but not too much. They must always be kept preoccupied with looking for the next piece of bread to organize and revolt!". An infamous tyrant actually said that ( a friend of his uncle's cousin's daughter's son told my friend's cousin's neighbour).
So it turns out, there's a fine and delicate balance expertly maintained by well experienced tyrants in power. They graciously give the people "just enough" to have a glimmer of hope for a better day, keeping them just passive enough. That's how they keep progress down in poverty stricken countries. What about in places where there is plenty to eat and folks are not scratching the earth for the next meal? What about in places that are earthquake free, tornado and natural disaster free? People in these places are free to develop and grow their minds, now that their bodies are well fed, but they don't? Why? What are we preoccupied with so that we don't think to better our lives? Scroll down for the answer:
They preoccupy our minds with utterly, useless, brain cell destroying, mindless trivia. They bombard us with this junk on a second to second basis through the thousands of useless tv channels (radio and other media channels are also guilty).
We are too busy with what mindless comment Haifa Wehbe made on some lame talk show to actually nurture our own and our children's minds with education and religion, and therefore better ourselves. Who is being thrown out this week in Star Academy? What did Brangelina wear to the Oscars? Is Lindsay Lohan back in rehab? Is that a baby bump Beyonce is trying to hide? Did Jay Z have a nose job?
Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Apparently a lot of people do! Enough to generate billions of advertisement dollars and enough to keep people busy trying to play catch up with people we will never meet. It's all about the money. Advertisements to keep us in the shopping malls buying things they so cleverly convince us that we need.
We are told what is the most desirable car, phone, woman, man, house, toys, and everything else so that we are so busy trying to acquire those things that we never open our eyes to see that we are living lives entirely empty of substance, quality and spiritual growth and depth. We are so busy and so blinded by trivial pursuits that we cannot see what is not right in our own societies and indeed in our own homes. We have no time for character building.
The good news is this tactic apparently did not work to keep the Egyptians down because to my knowledge, Egyptian tv is mega saturated with trivia with hardly a youth oriented educational channel in sight. So the stomachs and the minds of everyone were hungry. Yet the Egyptian youth still did not allow the wool to continue to be pulled over their eyes. There's hope yet. *Climbs off a very high horse*
So it turns out, there's a fine and delicate balance expertly maintained by well experienced tyrants in power. They graciously give the people "just enough" to have a glimmer of hope for a better day, keeping them just passive enough. That's how they keep progress down in poverty stricken countries. What about in places where there is plenty to eat and folks are not scratching the earth for the next meal? What about in places that are earthquake free, tornado and natural disaster free? People in these places are free to develop and grow their minds, now that their bodies are well fed, but they don't? Why? What are we preoccupied with so that we don't think to better our lives? Scroll down for the answer:
They preoccupy our minds with utterly, useless, brain cell destroying, mindless trivia. They bombard us with this junk on a second to second basis through the thousands of useless tv channels (radio and other media channels are also guilty).
We are too busy with what mindless comment Haifa Wehbe made on some lame talk show to actually nurture our own and our children's minds with education and religion, and therefore better ourselves. Who is being thrown out this week in Star Academy? What did Brangelina wear to the Oscars? Is Lindsay Lohan back in rehab? Is that a baby bump Beyonce is trying to hide? Did Jay Z have a nose job?
Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Apparently a lot of people do! Enough to generate billions of advertisement dollars and enough to keep people busy trying to play catch up with people we will never meet. It's all about the money. Advertisements to keep us in the shopping malls buying things they so cleverly convince us that we need.
We are told what is the most desirable car, phone, woman, man, house, toys, and everything else so that we are so busy trying to acquire those things that we never open our eyes to see that we are living lives entirely empty of substance, quality and spiritual growth and depth. We are so busy and so blinded by trivial pursuits that we cannot see what is not right in our own societies and indeed in our own homes. We have no time for character building.
The good news is this tactic apparently did not work to keep the Egyptians down because to my knowledge, Egyptian tv is mega saturated with trivia with hardly a youth oriented educational channel in sight. So the stomachs and the minds of everyone were hungry. Yet the Egyptian youth still did not allow the wool to continue to be pulled over their eyes. There's hope yet. *Climbs off a very high horse*
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