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By Nneka Okumazie
The ranking of knowing what to do leads to some of the toughest situations of life. Also, knowing that to know what to really do is that important is a milestone.
Not knowing what to do, and not knowing that one does not know what to do is a foundation of problems.
Knowing what to do is not often about the immediate obvious, easy reach or common choice, but the combination of unique, workable, etc. paths to whatever the problem is.
Something is internally ruining most developing countries, more than whatever perception people have about leadership or external influences.
In many developing countries, the assumption of what to do and equivalent knowledge is capitalism.
The crushing problems most of them face are of no priority so long their capitalism machine is running.
But capitalism – uniformly – is actually not a machine, but more of a prison.
The prison is not exactly elastic – but in the case it is, it expands slowly under similar conditions.
If the prison is overcapacity, it becomes far more dangerous, resources get tinnier, only a few are reached.
The economic system, not population growth, is the problem.
Preventing the need for prison is more important since it’s limited and barely advantageous, and that if it gets to the point where it has to be too full, something is collectively broken.
Wherever capitalism goes, it becomes a prison for its participant.
In prisons, for some places with certain good behaviour, they are able to learn, do better and effect some change with or without total supervision.
But for other places, it’s almost an unscrupulous turmoil down the mill.
In small communities that were most of the world through the history, trust was not that scarce. There were only a few things to want to maybe betray for.
But with capitalism infecting everywhere, trust in many places if off the available, and fear is pervasive – even in unrelated cases of negligible risk.
Capitalism, for many, is decision making. Capitalism determines compassion. Capitalism determines who or what gets abandoned. Capitalism gives a sense of purpose even when progress is adrift.
Capitalism makes it seem like – ability to purchase is the achievement, rather than to find out new ways or places where purchasing will not be necessary for some purposes.
There’re many in the assignment of capitalism who don’t exactly know what it is or about or understand its inelasticity, that segment others, with acceptance or not, depending on what capitalism reveals.
Thinking that capitalism – a uniform prison – based on standards elsewhere is what to do, makes most people favoured or disfavoured by capitalism all of few consequences in many developing countries.
There are people who keep saying to continue civilization, the knowledge to build it must be preserved. But it is possible that some people with rare consciousness became benefactors of civilization.
Such that having those people and whatever makes them emerge – mostly led to progress. But in many developing countries, they don’t have a start because the more some of their people can manoeuvre for a position or towards capitalism’s right, the farther they veer from what it takes to know what to do to start civilization, or to know that they need to know what to do.
Though other economic systems tried in the last century failed, not because uniform capitalism was better but because they actually ran on capital centrally, but changed the name of the prison generally while pretending it was not subject to capitalism conditions.
Maybe the major proponent of the system made good observations but the recommendations lacked depth, so those that accepted, experimented with it anyways, combining it with a gross political system that lead to doom.
Also, the system created winners, which maybe they assumed it wouldn’t.
They diluted capitalism because they couldn’t figure out how to totally or super minimally do without currency, suppressed supply, etc.
In some ways, capitalism ruined what education should be, because rather than education becoming a tool for true progress or a tool to sharpen consciousness for rarer qualities, education became a tool for capitalism.
There are more educated people around the world, but the education that it takes to change things, make progress or identify what progress means, is hardly obtainable.
Education funnels for capitalism prison – not towards an out for parts of it, reliably. So, mostly what is everywhere is not education, it is capitalism advantage dabble.
For developing countries not to identify most of their problems, separating from those ahead of them, might be their lasting tragedy.
There are many places in many developing countries that are not in the twenty-first century.
They may have tokens of the twenty-first century, but they’re actually living a couple of centuries removed from a millennium ago.
So, these countries with these kinds of places drive capitalism vigorously, without owning or knowing about the key?
Maybe developed countries already accepted their fate to wherever uniform capitalism would lead them, but for lots of developing countries, they are most likely unviable, eternally, so long they have total capitalism – in the form of the present.
[Psalm 120:4, Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.]
