I have given this lecture to the naysayers before. The ones who think the Nigerian problem is intractable, or believe that the breakaway nations from it might not be viable or carry over the same problems into the new ones.
I would forgo the philosophical and historical inaccuracies of their pedestrian thought process.
But let's focus on how people forge new social orders.
We would look at the very first stage in the process.
The attached images are there to help us see how China grasped the process and is now using it to reverse engineer a complex HK conundrum.
People who point to the success of Xi Jingpin today must be aware that they have to mention Mao Zedong in the same conversation.
Without the Chairman Mao's initiation of the first step, there would not be the China we have today.
When the Communists took over power post WW2, they initiated the ideology called 'The Cultural Revolution'.
(I always point this out to the wannabe analysts who look at the snow flake revolutions elsewhere to point to the 'ineffectiveness or failure of revolutions - Haitian, Arab Spring e.t.c.
Understand that the violent physical revolution is just one part of the process! You have to have a mental/Spiritual/emotional revolution as the other side of the coin for it to be successful!).
The Cultural Revolution therefore, was the side of the coin of the military conquest by Mao Zedong's Communist party.
The Cultural Revolution is the social engineering of the system - physical and psychological - using EDUCATION and REWARD as the driving forces of change.
The very first step in the process is the EDUCATION investment. Across board to the very best individuals.
China was able to educate the people about its past glories and the work required to regain it. Embracing the Chinese language was a major part of that. And learning of the history of the Hans Chinese civilization evolutionary pathways.
Of course, Mao Zedong got the economics wrong and many died as a result. But his primary role was to offer a clean cultural landscape for the next generation to build on.
Deng Xiaoping saw the economic gap. And he was able to plug that by using the concept of adaptive resilience. But his work was given the breathing space because the cultural Revolution was already a success and Chinese people operated from the same template.
Li Jingpin is the final puzzle in that jigsaw.
Today, the Chinese have taken over Hong Kong from the British and are assimilating it into the mainland Chinese system.
It's a far more complex job that people think it is. But look at the attached images and see how EDUCATION and REORIENTATION are the very first step in the direction of the assimilation framework.
Have we seen this in Nigeria before?
Yes.
Awolowo in the Southwest.
His success was based on understanding that independence fight was the one side of the coin. And that forging a cultural change, on the other side, was going to start with mass EDUCATION.
He did that and in just 10 years, he and his able lieutenants have transformed the Southwest for good. Jagabandit doesn't understand this. All the ones who came after do not understand this.
People tend to look at a SYSTEM from its component parts. No you don't. That's a mistake. You look at a system from the total interactions between the parts.
This is the difference between a good auto mechanic and a bad one. A mechanic that understands the whole system will be better at fixing the component parts.
It's easy to listen to propaganda on mainstream news and conclude you understand global politics and economic systems.
And don't point to Arab Spring ever again. And this is what I have told the separatists. Separation is just the creation of the SPACE you need to organise.
Once that's done, the process begins.
And if it doesn't start with mass education and cultural reorientation, you have bungled it. But our people are more interested in positions than in knowledge.
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