IT’S ALL OUR FAULT

Yes I mean it, it is our fault! We the dwellers of the digital century; the owners of the global village; the occupants of the post-modern world (in a social science parlance) are to be blamed. You should all sincerely agree with me that our societies are identically doomed. Both the young and the old among us now difficultly struggle to overcome numerous societal threats that are actually our handiwork  It is almost impossible to cite a living society of nowadays that is not presently witnessing an economic chaos, civilian riots, religious bigotry and prejudice, ethnic or racial oppression  governmental flaws and dubiousness, or intentional massacres of innocents, that is to name few among other severity maiming our societal development.  Surprisingly, looking back to the annals of history among all centuries lived by human, we are actually the most highly equipped with all the developmental and constructive tools ever available to human existence, for instance; our technological innovations is at the pace of light movement, philosophical theories never stop thrusting to perfect our social interactions, knowledge is easily acquired through convenient virtual learning ubiquity, polity had grown modernly mature in simultaneous with world populace minds and dauntless exposures. It is shameful and disheartening that these aforesaid tools are in essence useless and powerless in mitigating and trivializing our present societal troubles. They have failed to provide us the needed sternness and arsenal to combat these globally invading challenges. Or, I rather say we have acquired the best of these tools, but failed to use them astutely. It is a shame that our pole-tall educations, excessive technologies, and modernized politics are not enough for us to build a truthful, trustworthy, nonracial, religious, moral, peaceful, war-less and diligent society. It is as if to say, the more will progress in our innovations, modernization and globalization of our knowledge, politics, religion, cultures, and other backbones of human existence, their intrinsic essence and usefulness fade off. Or to say the utilitarian of these tools have been washed off as they are chronologically and anthropologically passed down to us. But I insist, as I believe nothing as wrong with the functionalists of those humanly constructive tools, it is we that have intentionally chosen to misuse them in order to achieve our own ill-fated, mischievous and malicious purposes. 

Raji Ridwan Adetunji-