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No Time To Think

Too Busy to Create Thinking Time Let's start with a hard fact. If you don't think and choose to be ignorant, you will be misinformed and miseducated. You will learn things that add no value to your life.   This monologue is some sort of an extension of a social aspect of the " Never stop learning " monologue. Learning requires one to be humble and have humility. This is the basis of a thinking mind. If you refuse to learn or be corrected without being offended, you will be ignorant of your ignorance and this may make you an angry and violent person, and every question posed to you will sound like a personal attack. This definitely impedes any form of thinking.   Thinking is a special quality that humans have exploited for millennia. Given our weak physical qualities when compared to other beasts, no wonder we had a very low life expectancy of less than 30 years. Our capacity to think (Outside the box) has made us special, including enhancing our ability to strike from...

Back to the Basics - Forget the Government

Maybe This Might Work - Family and Mastery So far, I don't see us doing anything that works, maybe I'm wrong, but hear me out. A nation is an abstract view of a people living within certain borders. What are a nation and a nation-state? The Cambridge Dictionary states, " A country, especially when thought of as a large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, traditions, etc. " And a nation-state is a state constituted of people who share almost everything from race, language, culture, etc. Given these definitions, South Africa is a nation, not a nation-state. And a set of black individuals does not necessarily make a black nation.  Forget the government  is not to say you don't have some responsibilities to fellow citizens or don't take the government's policy positions serious. It's to say, problem-solving begins at home. Like others say that "Charity begins at home". Otherwise, if it starts elsewhere, it'...