Culture
Peace Child is a book about living among headhunters and cannibals. The culture valued treachery through fattening victims with friendship before the slaughter. It’s an interesting read.
Hunger makes everything worth it. It is the drive, the actualized will to become what you imagine to be. It is the epitome of creative energy in man. It is bred when one is a toddler and manifested in adulthood as a spirit to produce. It keeps self-driven men woke in search of their dream(s). When these people meet and work as a group and capitalize on this drive, great things happen. The builder mindset is instinctively set in individuals driven by hunger. It starts by being self-reliant.
I live next to a madrasa. Every evening from 7 pm to 8 pm kids come and recite the Quran, it’s a good thing. Teaching kids about religion gives them a unique anchorage that walks with them for life. This is where the foundations of belief start. Mohammed is usually the slow kid in the madrasa, he was beaten again for the 5th time this week because he failed to recite a verse in the Holy Book. His classmates are usually caught up in the same predicament. I wonder how they manage to sit after being whipped. The use of fear for motivation to learn is interesting, especially at their tender age. The methods yield results and within no time children master the Quran. I hope Mohammed adapts quickly. A Fear culture is set in motion.
From childhood, the spirit to compete has been gleeful. At home, Social surroundings - like churches and at school. I attended a church service once where candidates were being felicitated for their auspicious performance. The top performers were called, received handshakes from pastors and money gifts. The others were seated watching enviously. Get good grades so you can be. That was the lesson! Only the best are chosen and only by doing this some ‘doors’ or ‘windows’ open for you. Our minds are shackled in a confined way of thought. We have been successful in implementing this particular paradigm of learning. Can we look into other patterns and see what we can find ? People are uniquely skilled. I think the competitive edge spills over into the work environment where competition is made manifest and people do whatever it takes to be on the spot that they perceive to be the highest. Can we continue to grow with this mindset? Self-interest culture is brought to light.
Every even year my tribe would take boys aged 10 to the river in the wee hours just before dawn, smear them with wet — cold clay soil to act as an Anesthetic. The boys would go stand for a test of bravery and courage. A man dressed in traditional attire would come gallivanting and cut off their foreskin in less than 2mins. Exceptionally fast 'surgeon’. A skilled craftsman in his domain. The boys would go into incubation for a period of one month and come out as new men of the tribe. Everyone would rejoice in the new addition of brave men to the tribe and the culture would be passed on successfully to another age set.
Fear is an engaging emotion. It’s the genesis of indecision and doubt. Which leads to a rabbit hole of an extensive range of emotions one of them being desperation. It’s chaos. I’m sitting quietly in the presence of this emotional entity and I am amazed by its motivational drive. ‘The Fear of Poverty grew out of man’s inherited tendency to prey upon his fellow man economically’. It’s the natural order of our ecosystem. Even animals do it, but are we animals? Is our ecosystem wrong? The truly great men and women of our generation climb through the mass law of the hierarchy of needs and reach the apex only to realize that self-actualization is the opposite of their drive to become the best part of themselves. We grow and change.
When I was a child my mother would ensure every night before we slept we had a share of God’s word and a prayer to protect us from the evils of this world and bring forth what we needed. She still does that today. At the time I looked at this as a burden and I didn’t quite grasp the full impact of the ritual. Now though I see it as foundations of my faith for my use with regard to accessing part of my boundless mind. This is spirituality in its truest form. For we walk by faith and not by sight(2 Corinthians 5:7) — an interesting concept worth looking into. The concept of faith is something I’m trying to understand in order to have a broader view of how it works.
Billions is a luring series. An action of two powerful minds at odds. It gives you a full picture of how the world works. The series generally portrays the prisoner’s dilemma game theory- through the various struggles the characters have overcome through means that are quite questionable. The winning mindset is upheld in this particular series and it truly gives a clear picture of capitalism at its peak. It’s a must-watch series. It brings out how we can achieve the best version of ourselves through sheer self-will, manipulation, and being an arse. Let’s build a winning culture.
