Cancerous Tumor Against Humanity
Published: 12 August 2013 By Abiodun Giwa
The Egyptian Fiasco
President Barack Obama has said on more than one occasion that terrorism cannot be completely eliminated, but it can be reduced to a level in which it will no longer be a threat to humanity. He repeated the same assertion in his press conference on Friday, while he sought Americans' cooperation for oversight and continuing surveillance not purposefully targeted against individuals privacy. The need to seek oversight towards tackling official abuse brings the matter close to a fight against corruption and a reminder of the founders’ effort to tame the human nature when they wrote the Constitution.
Since humanity cannot fight for itself, it becomes the responsibility of the people at the helm of affairs to fend away terror and corruption from enveloping it. This makes terrorism and corruption the twin cancerous tumor working against humanity and capable of ending it if they are allowed to grow. It is just like a human person who has developed cancer and the doctor says the cancer will need continued chemotherapy, but the cancer may still decide the end of that person.
Just like President Obama has said on and off that this terror cannot be eliminated, perhaps for a reason that there has been terror before the modern
terror, and there will always be terror, just like there has been corruption before the modern day corruption.
No thanks to human nature. But what is the cause of the problem with human nature and why is taming it so difficult irrespective of its damage to humanity, and the dire need to bring it under control? These questions have become necessary because people still believe that corruption is part of human nature. Is the reference to human nature not a reference to human persons as diabolical and that there is a need to bring whatever is the nature in humans under control for humanity to survive? Hernandez Osbaldo, a worker in a Manhattan restaurant says corruption is everywhere. Richie, construction company overseer says that corruption is part of human nature.
Why is corruption part of human nature? Richie says it is greed. People having more than their fair share of everything and still want to have more. He speaks about Peola, which he mentions as relating to recording business and that in the good old days, if you will record a song, you must give money to people to get your song recorded. He says it still the same today and only that it has been refined and that this is applicable to every business. He says it is not that you don’t get things done without greasing people’s palms, but that those who have the means and know their ways get things done faster in all circumstances. Many of the rich wants to get richer and have the means to go around the bends and many poor wants to be rich and will do anything to get what they want. Insatiability in both plays its own role. Many people resort to all means to have their ways.
As we talk, Richie reaches out to the copy of a newspaper. He points to new story of a contractor convicted for paying his workers $8.00 an hour, when the contract obligation says the workers should be paid $53.00 an hour. “What has he tried to do?” he asks. “He wants to make more money than he is morally entitled and he may also have been driven by a wish to be famous, because wealth brings fame too! Richie believes this is the foundation of greed that leads to corruption.”
Richie’s exposition helps as a reminder of Paul Simon singing, “If you want to be a leader, you want to change the day, turn your back on money and
walk away from fame; you want to be a missionary without a missionary zeal, you got to change your life and how does that make you feel… and you want to be a writer, find a quiet place and live a humble life.” You suddenly remember the terror visited on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver when he was thrown out of his ship by those he had employed to work with him, his summation about the human nature and his subsequent fear to return to the land of humans.
The thought of how the American founding fathers deliberated on human nature, arrived at their decision that the Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, assails. What gave them the idea about danger the human nature and religion constitute to humanity? James Q. Wilson’s words in “American Government” says “The Framers believed that men and women were good enough to make it possible to have free government, but they were not good enough to make it inevitable. People will pursue their self-interest and no “parchment barrier” like a constitution or bill of rights, would be a sufficient check on those self-seeking tendencies.”
There is nothing as interesting imagining how the founders sat down and deliberated on human nature and their decision that the proper way to keep
government in check, while still leaving it strong to perform its essential tasks was to allow the self-interest of one group to check the self-interest of another. And that has apparently mitigated what would have been a disaster, compare to the level of corruption in some other countries where human nature is free and unencumbered; where religion insensitivity constitutes a time bomb, human reason at its lowest ebb, people seeking ways of escape from inhumanity to places of manageable plight for a second chance to live a life their leaders and hopeless situation have denied them.
But the truth is that America’s interaction with the world has made it to be like other parts of the world threatened by the evil and terror of religion. Can’t you see what the effort to curtail religion terrorism from abroad has done to the freedom here? President Obama is struggling and pleading for Americans to allow the surveillance program to be able to keep the country and the allies safe. Freedom is threatened, not only in America, but in all parts of the world. Malala Yousafzai was almost killed by brutes who thought she was dreaming heresy. And in this part of the world where virtue is supposed to be a good example for the heretics fighting against freedom, hedonism has torpedoed asceticism. The confusion over gay and lesbian and equality has created a division between Russia and other western countries, African and some parts of Asia, creating a new Babel.
It is like the world has over-stretched and the global village is no more a livable city as propounded by philosophers in Plato’s "The Republic" that such a city will be out of control and every human will be a law unto self, inseparable from hunger, corruption and terror.
Can you imagine General Al-Sisi of Egypt accusing President Obama of not helping to undo the evil he has created in Egypt? As if it is a normal process to create chaos and then seek someone to help put out the fire. It is a mark of the evil of corruption and terror. He staged a coup, overthrew legitimate authority and hand-picked a man to rule because he wanted the continuity of the rain of dollars from Washington.
Since humanity cannot fight for itself, it becomes the responsibility of the people at the helm of affairs to fend away terror and corruption from enveloping it. This makes terrorism and corruption the twin cancerous tumor working against humanity and capable of ending it if they are allowed to grow. It is just like a human person who has developed cancer and the doctor says the cancer will need continued chemotherapy, but the cancer may still decide the end of that person.
Just like President Obama has said on and off that this terror cannot be eliminated, perhaps for a reason that there has been terror before the modern
terror, and there will always be terror, just like there has been corruption before the modern day corruption.
No thanks to human nature. But what is the cause of the problem with human nature and why is taming it so difficult irrespective of its damage to humanity, and the dire need to bring it under control? These questions have become necessary because people still believe that corruption is part of human nature. Is the reference to human nature not a reference to human persons as diabolical and that there is a need to bring whatever is the nature in humans under control for humanity to survive? Hernandez Osbaldo, a worker in a Manhattan restaurant says corruption is everywhere. Richie, construction company overseer says that corruption is part of human nature.
Why is corruption part of human nature? Richie says it is greed. People having more than their fair share of everything and still want to have more. He speaks about Peola, which he mentions as relating to recording business and that in the good old days, if you will record a song, you must give money to people to get your song recorded. He says it still the same today and only that it has been refined and that this is applicable to every business. He says it is not that you don’t get things done without greasing people’s palms, but that those who have the means and know their ways get things done faster in all circumstances. Many of the rich wants to get richer and have the means to go around the bends and many poor wants to be rich and will do anything to get what they want. Insatiability in both plays its own role. Many people resort to all means to have their ways.
As we talk, Richie reaches out to the copy of a newspaper. He points to new story of a contractor convicted for paying his workers $8.00 an hour, when the contract obligation says the workers should be paid $53.00 an hour. “What has he tried to do?” he asks. “He wants to make more money than he is morally entitled and he may also have been driven by a wish to be famous, because wealth brings fame too! Richie believes this is the foundation of greed that leads to corruption.”
Richie’s exposition helps as a reminder of Paul Simon singing, “If you want to be a leader, you want to change the day, turn your back on money and
walk away from fame; you want to be a missionary without a missionary zeal, you got to change your life and how does that make you feel… and you want to be a writer, find a quiet place and live a humble life.” You suddenly remember the terror visited on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver when he was thrown out of his ship by those he had employed to work with him, his summation about the human nature and his subsequent fear to return to the land of humans.
The thought of how the American founding fathers deliberated on human nature, arrived at their decision that the Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, assails. What gave them the idea about danger the human nature and religion constitute to humanity? James Q. Wilson’s words in “American Government” says “The Framers believed that men and women were good enough to make it possible to have free government, but they were not good enough to make it inevitable. People will pursue their self-interest and no “parchment barrier” like a constitution or bill of rights, would be a sufficient check on those self-seeking tendencies.”
There is nothing as interesting imagining how the founders sat down and deliberated on human nature and their decision that the proper way to keep
government in check, while still leaving it strong to perform its essential tasks was to allow the self-interest of one group to check the self-interest of another. And that has apparently mitigated what would have been a disaster, compare to the level of corruption in some other countries where human nature is free and unencumbered; where religion insensitivity constitutes a time bomb, human reason at its lowest ebb, people seeking ways of escape from inhumanity to places of manageable plight for a second chance to live a life their leaders and hopeless situation have denied them.
But the truth is that America’s interaction with the world has made it to be like other parts of the world threatened by the evil and terror of religion. Can’t you see what the effort to curtail religion terrorism from abroad has done to the freedom here? President Obama is struggling and pleading for Americans to allow the surveillance program to be able to keep the country and the allies safe. Freedom is threatened, not only in America, but in all parts of the world. Malala Yousafzai was almost killed by brutes who thought she was dreaming heresy. And in this part of the world where virtue is supposed to be a good example for the heretics fighting against freedom, hedonism has torpedoed asceticism. The confusion over gay and lesbian and equality has created a division between Russia and other western countries, African and some parts of Asia, creating a new Babel.
It is like the world has over-stretched and the global village is no more a livable city as propounded by philosophers in Plato’s "The Republic" that such a city will be out of control and every human will be a law unto self, inseparable from hunger, corruption and terror.
Can you imagine General Al-Sisi of Egypt accusing President Obama of not helping to undo the evil he has created in Egypt? As if it is a normal process to create chaos and then seek someone to help put out the fire. It is a mark of the evil of corruption and terror. He staged a coup, overthrew legitimate authority and hand-picked a man to rule because he wanted the continuity of the rain of dollars from Washington.
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