Living in the Republic of Denial

Human idiosyncratic demeanors will always be reflected in the way reality is perceived. To be less poetic, It is likened to arguing about the color of the sky with the man in shades. He is damn sure of what he describes based on the filter (tint or tone of the lens he sees through).

In Nigeria every tribe has a lens with a color filter of reality as a default, when you add religion, do remember this is a simultaneous equation and by all means note to balance the equation by adding extra lenses for every variable. So when you pick an average Nigerian who is ethnically conscious, religiously aware, politically poised (brainwashed or prejudiced), Educated (either half baked or just flaunting the prejudices of the system that produced him/her) etc know that reality is tremendously distorted except in cases of outliers who have genuinely experienced an epiphany via exposure or enlightenment (spirit, soul and body).

So it is difficult to say anyone’s assertion is correct or wrong per se just as one would not assert that there is only one way to succeed in life. The sad thing though in Nigeria and with Nigerians is the level of ignorance which has given rise to the rate at which rhetorics are elevated to truism. It is a very sad development indeed.