The Philosophies in me

Not just in my mind, my mind is in it.

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As my many articles in the cyberspace show, I am addicted to the critical

analysis of issues perceived as either controversial or on which opinions are
highly polarised. With ignorance and chronic subjectivity serving as nurturers of
naivety and gullibility, I never intentionally seek to impose my opinions on
others, but rather to develop different perspectives to presenting issues so that
people can synthesise objectively. Sound confusing? I feel the same way.
Nevertheless, in response to the reader who wrote asking whether I am
controversial; the answer is simple; I am not controversial but controversially
rational. Does this sound rational? I will attempt to elucidate.

Having embarked in human rights abuse campaigns ever since my early teens;
ranging from family feuds for succession through to political repression and
vendetta, I have seen and experience their extremities. Being controversially
rational is what I have become as a result thereof. Consequently, through and
in my trials and tribulations, I have fine-tuned my senses to the seemingly
irrational but logical philosophies of the people I met. For example, in
Cameroon, I met and questioned a traditional chief why it was that their women
are not allowed to participate in local politics yet rhetorically; they posit or
synonymise women with Godliness? Without hesitation the reply left His Royal
Highness’s mouth without restrain; “Yes Youngman” he turned to me like a
regiment commander, “Just like God, let the women remain invisible while the
men take care of politics.” Although the irrationality of the invisible participating
in governance seems to logically legitimise the autocracy of the visible men
governing, conversely it justified the prevalence of gender discrimination in that
indigenous culture to the extent of near total female subjugation. Needless to
point out that, this local dogma of ‘governance exclusion’ based on invisibility
conflicts with my orthodox dogma of the invisible supreme omnipotent patriarch
(God) who, though external, is governor.
His Royal Highness went on to elucidate on the minutia of governance and
ethics in his heritage. “You see”, said His Royal Highness delicately sipping
palm wine from his royal buffalo cup, “When we men sit in counsel, women
have to sit away from us, making sure that their hands rest on their knees while
the men can support their heads in their hands. This is because men’s wisdom
to govern comes from their heads (brains) but by thinking with their legs,
women have inherited stupidity. Since women are not gifted with reasoning, by
resting their hands on their knees, the counsel is safe from women contributing
stupidity to deliberations.

Now, before feminist become hysteric with the passivity apportion to their
human kin, or human rights activists screaming at what may be perceived as
sexual discrimination, I dare ask, ‘who are ‘You’ to seek to transpose concepts
constructed base on Western ideologies to sovereign cultures? Conversely to
the perception of the counsel of governors as chauvinist or sexist, you can bet
that they will perceive your universal concept of Human Rights as Modern-Day
imperialism. If my controversial rationalising is to be objective, believe me, ‘in
no way is the current concept of human rights not synonymous with
imperialism’ Within the context of this indiscriminate universal human rights
which blatantly breaches the very rights of independent, free-thinking sovereign
cultures it purports to uphold, I suggested to the council of elders that allowing
children to work longs hours without rest violated their rights and deprived them
of their childhood. His Royal Highness replied with wisdom and fortitude; “down
through the generations, we have always loved and rested our offspring’s not
‘righted’ them. We only allow them to do those things that we will do ourselves.
Isn’t our love superior to your right?” While the sight of a child carrying heavy
load may constitute right violation to the so-named ‘imperialist Westerner’
(Universalist); rationality is indicative that this and similar treatment of children
are morally and ethically based on Kantian or Aristotelian virtues if not
philosophies. I dare declare that I consent and acknowledge the virtues in
treating children with respect rather than based on some social construct. In a
nutshell, I am a relativist. Relativism is in my mind not my mind in relativism.
Confused? So am I. It is this liberal and democratic rather than autocratic
perception of others and their views that has driven me to always examine what
some readers have termed ‘controversial issues in social policies.’ As I have
made it very clear, I never seek to impose my opinion on others but rather to
provide objective analysis from varying perspectives to enable people arrive at
rational, logical and may be objective synthesis. Sounds rational? Well,
acknowledge it is part and parcel of allowing you the privilege to dwell in my
thought process. Although my philosophies may not seem conventionally right, I
am sure it serves its intended purpose ‘as a catalyst to instigate relevant
debates’. For that reader who thought I think in abstract; remember that Freud,
Karl Max and Shakespeare were most often perceived as loonies in their days.
Their crime and misfortune was that they were all too far ahead of their time.
While I am in no way insinuating any degree of equality with these icons, I
rather you see my views as ‘different’ or incompatible with your beliefs, as
opposed to being ‘wrong’.

If you think my reasoning-clock has stopped working; just remember that even
a clock that has stopped working is right twice every day.

I raise my case. Convinced?

Keep reading and rate my writings, most importantly, feel absolutely free to
contact me directly with your opinions. I relish criticism since they constitute the
fulcrum of my innovations.

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