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By Nneka Okumazie
Loyalty is everywhere. People go to school, work, social groups, etc. They stay there, join teams and do what they are asked.
Loyalty is among the cheapest obtainable value anywhere. This is because the easy way to measure it can be faked. To do what is asked, how it is asked, where, when and with what, consistently, is possible even for someone whose only goal is self-interest.
Loyalty is a low bar to know who is true, or not. It is a problem across purposes. Many times when betrayal, disappointment, etc. happens, the victim may wonder why, knowing the person had been loyal. It seems, yes, but something better than loyalty was missing sincerity.
Sincerity is not that easy to check and may never be known, but it is better to seek sincerity than loyalty. The two may enhance each other but sincerity alone is its own high-quality character.
Sincerity may be unkind or unyielding, but it is often more useful to outcomes than loyalty. Sincerity is not the absence of mistakes or vulnerabilities but being willing to face them, which may be a factor that may reduce one’s interest in making them.
There are many developing countries in the world where loyalty is everything. They have pursued this at the expense of sincerity. There are all kinds of loyal people in those places expert at its guise with disability for sincerity.
In most of those places, what they do is to keep them in the line for advantage, not for the benefit of the stated mission, or for the good of society.
There is a successive cycle of insincere people holding high to low positions with loss to their nations.
In certain cases, developed countries achieved and adjusted what they did, by the sincerity of many to that purpose, in the roles they had, seen or unseen.
Capitalism makes loyalty to money the key survival factor everywhere now, in deficiency, to sincerity.
But some nations, no matter how low they get with sincerity, don’t go as low as others who have real loyalty but zero sincerity.
They want to develop by money, infrastructure, etc. that too is not sincere.
[Jonah 1:12, And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.]
