‘Woke’ youth mustn’t snooze
The cult of digital citizenship has a supreme theme: that of the ‘digitally-woke,’ youth. Social media, expanded to fill the space life provides, substitutes Nigeria’s bleak moon for a digitized dawn.
Yet the joke persists in contemporary circuits that the battle for Nigeria’s freedom would be fought and won in social space and by the cudgels and blades of ‘woke’ youth. This notion sprouts from ideological fields at home and abroad, where pasture, copse and tributary of thought, flourish from sickly seeds of violence and death.
He is arsonist, assassin and mugger at election time; and canon-fodder for disrupting the state, in time of peace. He is the random cyber-rat with multiple monikers, preaching bigotries and a gospel of hate across multiple social media platforms and news sites as you read. Cowardice is what we should conquer. Cowardice enslaves all to mean and homicidal politicians. It cripples the rage of impoverished youth and binds all to the wiles of dubious political parties and public officers.
They frantically sought for votes for their self-styled messiahs, whose unique selling point was an exaggerated sense of self-worth. Extravagant sections of the press called the latter, titans. But they were no titans. They were simply merchants of rot, who emerged to clothe dross as gold and filth in newer, fanciful packs.
Ultimately, they brought nothing new to the table, save a slew of platitudes and tiresome rhetoric. For instance, some dizzy candidate promised to turn marijuana into a national revenue earner and establish a N100, 000 national minimum wage package for the country in a manner reminiscent of the prominent parties’ lifeboat solutions.
It is relatively easy to join a picket line and tirelessly castigate our elders and ruling class for everything that is wrong with our lives but these actions, while they demonstrate frustration, and in some instances, even heroism, deal generally with symptoms of· our problems and not the solutions.
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