METANOIA: A PATH TO CREATIVITY
- THE BOTTOM LINE
- Aug 30, 2015
- 5 min read
I cannot confirm the authenticity of this picture, but it does get my point across. thanks.
This week has been rather interesting. For the first time in history 1 billion people logged into Facebook on Monday the 24th of August. 1 Billion People were online pretty much at the same time, using the same product, that’s roughly one in 7 people worldwide. Can you imagine the enormity of that? If the numbers are true that’s the “entire” human population on the African continent. At the same time China’s equity shares crashed to an 8 year low by 8.5 percent causing emerging market currencies like the South African rand (ZAR) to nose dive into a re-pricing event that will now go down in history as “Black Monday” because black represents all things bad even though in reality people’s faces regardless of their colour go “white” when they are in shock (or when blood drains off their faces) Anyway there’s no black and white in the rainbow. So if you are interested in getting more confused about what is going on in the markets, because that’s all the “analysis” you will get from me you can read The Economist they are fluent in Latin while I on the other hand well, I dabble in Greek, sometimes. So here’s my one billion worth of insight:
The world loves secretes. But the truth is very little is secrete in this world and if you know anything at all about life you will indeed know that true power hides in plain sight. Just don’t look too close because you’ll get tangled up in a maze. Ok. What am I on about?
Do black lives matter to black people? Do black or African people care about their own lives or is the black lives matter campaign directed or aimed at white people or non-blacks? I understand the premise and the need for this campaign but I just thought it might be useful to ask a rhetorical question since I don’t live in the United States of America where Black people are in the minority (although the same questions applies to them too). I live in Africa where black people or Africans are in the majority, do black lives matter here? And if I’m going to hold a placard saying black lives matter, who am I directing it to? Who cares about my black life? Why should they care? In 1922, 214 striking mine workers were killed by a white army after 70 thousand Africans went on strike in South Africa. In 2012, 34 striking mine workers were killed by police after more than 2 thousand workers went on strike in South Africa. Same strategy, the only difference now is the person behind the gun in Africa is the African, otherwise known as a Black person? And why is that?
The real secrete to wealth or the truth that the worlds’ wealthiest people know is this: money is not real wealth, it’s a drug. Money is the biggest drug of all time, it is the gateway drug to all the drugs in the world you can think of or wish for. In other words it is a way into all manner of addictions - not just the usual suspects, but whatever it is that gets you high, whatever it is that makes you happy. If you need money to get high or happy then you are in trouble. Shopping is one addiction. Power and influence is another. Creativity is another. The rush you get from being able to afford something really expensive to treating yourself to this or that, to telling this one do that or go there can be addictive. As a result we all work for money so we can get high on things, power, influence, clothes, shoes, trinkets, cosmetic products, whatever we like. Money is an addiction that no-one tells you about. That is why you feel worthless (empty) without it and you will give almost anything to have it. We are willing to kill for money.
To understand what I mean: you need to understand how Africans started working for money. Those who needed labour needed a way to create a debt which did not exist, in the form of taxes. To force the many Africans who were busy minding their own business to work for them, so they could feed their habit. Through the barrel of the gun many taxes were introduced. A hut tax, dog tax, poll tax. You were taxed for breathing. To make sure that there was no way Africans could pay for these taxes they stole whatever real wealth Africans possessed in the form of their livestock which they confiscated and crops which they destroyed and razed to the ground, including children which they kidnapped into slave labourers. As a result Africans were left with two choices, starve to death or go work on white farms as domestic workers or the mines for money which was then used to pay the hut, dog, poll, breathing tax. In addition those in the mines were introduced to cheap alcohol as an additional drug to keep them working at the mines longer and those at the farms were introduced to other drugs such as clothing, soaps and creams etc. Fast forward to the 21 century and there's an infinate list of things we just can't live without. We are addicted to a million million milllion million things.
Now how do they get wealthy? Where in this scenario does true wealth lie? Who brings in the “money” as it were? You guessed right, black (labour) people or on this continent Africans, in China (it’s the Chinese) in India (Indians). We are the real wealth. That is why when one becomes a m/billionaire and go of the “financial” grid as it were, you use a black card. Not gold, not silver, not platinum or titanium. The Black Card is the one you use so you can make contactless transactions and become virtually invisible. Those who are in power know the value of black lives to them. They know that blacklivesmatter and how much they matter or are worth per unit. The question is, do you?
If this is beginning to sound a little like Greek to you that’s because it is – Greek. Metanoia is a Greek word used frequently in religious Christian texts to indicate a change of mind or more accurately – to change the way your brain works. Metanoia is made up of two words Meta (after) and nous (mind). It is so drastic. It’s like getting your brain rewired completely. Or have a major event happen to you, which changes the way you look at life. Finding love (or losing it) is one of those critical moments in life when metanoia (a drastic change of thinking) can take place. This is what happened to one man whose desire (addiction) to be love (d) was so enormous it led him to create one of the most addictive drugs in the world. We all use it voluntarily today because we share the exact same powerful desire. It gets us the appearance of what we all want most in life, the one thing that can get you through anything.
Without love your black card is worthless, and yes, black lives don’t matter. Black lives matter only if you love a black person or if that black person can get you whatever it is you love most of all i.e fame, recognition, fortune, influence, power, freedom etc. A black card only matters if it can get you what you want the most, and for an overwhelming number of people that is, time spent doing (enjoying) the things you love with the one(s) you love – who love you and sharing it. So here’s a trick question: who is the most powerful person in the world today?
PS: No need for paranoia or conspiracy theories.
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