Understanding the Dilemma of Change

Understanding the Dilemma of Change

Comfort is the greatest killer of change..and status quo is the weapon of comfort. If our two days are equal, we are losers [Prophetic Advice]. This calls upon us to be creative. If we are not creative, our natural creative potentials in ourselves will drive us to see the creativity of others in movies, videos, play-stations, youtubes, magazines, galleries, shopping and tours. Our bodies and minds need creativity and movement. Media taps into our natural desire for creativity and steers it towards their own products, services and agendas. In this way high profits are generated through mass manipulations. The rich are able to enjoy the expensive creativities, the middle class goes into debt to rub shoulders with the rich and the impatient steals to join in the niceties of the rich and famous. The majority of people choose not to be creative and become consumers due to the comfort zone of their laziness. To follow the masses leads many astray [Qur'an]. Laziness turns into the desire to control the creativity of others through bullying, criticism, backstabbing for corporate positions and political rivalry. These are actually all forms of moaning [which the Qur'an questions are the moaners the same as those on the straight path]. Through moaning the Straight Path is lost. Others who fail in using their creativity, strive to control others through seeking position through academic certifications and titles. In this way they help to control the man-in-the-street, they term the "commoner". Lazy people, chain themselves in incapacity and this drives them to stunt the creative spirit of others which will free people from their control. Now it becomes clear that oppressive people are actually fearful of others, because the creatives remind them of their own laziness and stagnation. The Lazy people often become insulting to creative people through snide comments to discredit the creatives. Strong creative people are free, because they are not controlled by media, politics and negative comments and conversations. Creatives are self-reliant and often very spiritual. Spirituality with creativity, which in real terms is problem-solving creates true leadership for change. Laziness makes one a loser in that one the becomes a slave of manipulators. This creates an enormous amount frustrations that causes mental, physical, familial and social ills. Losers become the supporters of the status quo and they find joy in supporting the systems and slogans of the elite, especially political wrangling. Politics can be equated with Brand Names which is part of the status quo, which gives the lazy people a sense of false security and status. The most effective way to stunt mass creativity and hence real freedom, are standardised academic institutions that use examinations for ego-worshipping certifications to stratify people into hierarchical positions in the academic and business sectors. These are the real tools of capitalism, which eventually depletes all resources, land, labour, capital and entrepreneurs to serve the elite few at the expense of the creativity of the masses. The institutionalised academics frames the status quo of a dependency culture. Standardised schools and universities thus entrenches the dependency status quo which aims to destroy creativity and enslave the masses. The destruction of individual creativity through standardised education which controls the labour market, causes shrinking economic markets, increased unemployment and underemployment, illness, crime and a widening of the divide between the have and the have-nots due to remuneration disparities based on academic levels. The real culprits who create this dilemma is the large, uncreative, critical minded middle-class who through debt imitate the rich and with certifications help the elite to control the masses with low wages for those who could not afford the expenses of standardised education. Stunting creativity through standardised education is thus the real reason behind the capitalistic woes. Standardised education that inhibit individual creativity destroys the potentials of diverse markets, thus drops the country into an economic downward spiral 

The recognition and remuneration of individual interests, talents, skills, aptitudes, create a vibrant society that becomes self-sufficient. Creativity creates work which diversifies products and services, which thus translates into the growth of diversified markets, which generally stimulate the economy a wider trade network and a growing international trade will increase. when governments remunerate talent and not certification then growth will happen. if governments do not then the larger society of middle-class can individually contribute a small amount monthly to pay youth in a learn and earn and other projects [see "NodebtYouth" and "A New Learning Culture" on this blog]  in self sustaining and developmental, the multiplier effect will cause markets to grow and change and unite society in a constructive, progressive way. A GOLDEN AGE of CHANGE of MODERN SOCIETY WILL ERUPT without slavery...This will happen if we realise that following the status quo kills qualitative change... Change in society will only come when individuals change the inner self [Qur'an ref] to be more God Conscious through the consciousness of becoming change agents to help others and not to be selfish by hiding under the status quo .....God Willing.

Why men break down western societies

Why men break down western societies

Men, in indigenous cultures, where western-capitalistic-prescriptive-teacher-centred-passive-male-school culture is not present, comfortably function as holistic males with their full masculine protective, supportive role intact, while being fully social-sexually satisfied in youth marriages that stimulate productivity for the subsistence, progressive and preservation culture they perpetuate through indigenous belief and practice. Western schooling traps the creative, supportive, sexual male energy into a passive, school-bench-oppressed young virile male, under the command of a theoretical, intangible written culture with outdated older adult supervision that tramples the male strengths through western created disciplinary and management policies.This school culture thus undermines his natural strong energies, which subconsciously aggravate or effeminate him. His maleness in western schools is then boxed into aggressive sports such as rugby, rugga, soccer etc., which taps into his strengths in a negative, not in a creative-social-constructive way. Further more the youths natural instincts to marry is socially restricted through the discouragement of teenage marriages (a natural developomental phase - research shows that a commonality amongst people who live to a 100+ is that they were born from young mothers)  in favour of a long, expensive, difficult exam-based educational culture that postpones the young men's abilty to support a family, under the academic Fakenews of Adolescence - the so-called '9 year no-man's land of youth'. These western, cultural male oppressions create a time-bomb that turns many frustrated males into rapists, bullies, drug addicts, gangsters, gays, sissies, committing suicides and domestic violence. Competitive,  capitalistic entertainment and popstar culture stimulate crime even further through materialism. Equal educational standards in unequal socio-economic political engineered masses,  create unemployment among the disenfranchised, which ensures jobs for the enfranchised through crime fighting, legal, medical and social work fraternities to tend to the socially engineered illnesses that make the rich richer and poor poorer. Fashion and movies create further male frustrations. Uninformed Academics blame these social dilemmas on Harmful Masculinities, without deep thought that some women tend to commit and support, even encourage these harmful engineered social modern western harmful constructs and that western, fragmented, graded-peer-group-separate subject-based-prescriptive-exam oriented educational culture is the main culprit causing gangsterism and corruption infested socio-economic-political down-spiralling. Holistic Leisure Learning-HLL, accompanied by the Nodebtyouth program proposed on my blog Bo Kaap Helper, can create the practical, self-supportive, balanced, creative and integrative communities we all yearn for. In shaa Allah Aameen ..Shukran Mogamat Faadiel Arnold 13 Jan 2020

The Traps of Intellectualism

The Traps of Intellectualism

Ecumenism, inclusion, relativism, absolutism, rationality, complexity, plurality, ambiguity, ambivalence, paradoxality, duality, tragedy, aporia, simplicity, nihilism, practicality, perspective, democracy, justice, freedom, equality, equity, dignity, acknowledgement, affirmation, actualisation, political, economic, ecological, civil, policymaking, opinionation, rationality, reasonableness, analysis, accessibility, tolerance, ethos, dogmatism, stereotypical, stigmatise, demonisation,  annihilation, reflection, perceptions, poverty, unemployment, inequality, violence, social pathology, state capture, corruption...These are "efforts" in intellectualism to define, re-define, identify, re-identify, argue and postulate various new meanings for common good and bad,  which have left society more Fractionalised through the aforementioned concepts and terms...marginalising the masses from understanding where real change is, because intellectualism has mystified the two simple life experiences of truth and falsehood. Everything under intellectualism,  become theories and the simple good practices vanish from the hearts and hands and are being replaced by mental constructs...stuck in the mind, creating the modern theoretical life, called academia, which give rise to modern and post-modern schools and universities that trap the most powerful energies of societies, the youth, into a sea of confusion that has lead to individual loneliness that increases stress and fragments families and communities that are now dependent on technology and artificial intelligence to help them become like augmented "humanoids" who lost their spirit of communication and energy for simple good work to help each other. Help now depends on certifications, not pure abilities and eagerness. Trust is now questioned if there is no state, institutionalised accreditation. Good work is now in the field of doubt, leaving families, neighbours and friends incapable of valuing each other's good intentions and work. The obvious has become vague and the truth is now re-defined as intangible and thus open for criticism.  The ability to criticise has now become the intellectual standard of communication, causing stagnation of the people, who become gullable to be led by pseudo science, media and political trickery. We find ourselves now, more than ever in intellectual arguments for the Ph.D race, to feed our own personal egos at the expense of family connections and enormous financial strains. The intellectuals now, because of their ability to understand and use the introductory, aforementioned jargon and ego-worship, indentify themselves as the "informed" and even "spiritual elite"...based on physical evidence, housed in footnotes, without spiritual enlightenment....   My "Thought Gymnastics for 2020 and Beyond"..after reading the Afterword by Prof.Nico Koopman to the book of Prof Aslam Fataar "Searching for the Islamic Ethical Agency"...published 2019... Shukran Salaam. Mogamat Faadiel Arnold..
9 January 2020.