The man who said: Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice couldn’t have said it better. Misery and vice are the sure daughters of a fling of ignorance.
It is heartbreaking to see people in their right senses wallowing in the miry bog of ignorance. It surely is saddening because this is the tattered state of our society.
In these dark days of Aids we cannot afford to throw caution to the winds and ignore the possible repercussions of our actions.
The decisions we make affect our present and shape our future. Decision is a force to reckon with.
So you can imagine how devastating the life is of one whose decisions are based on Ignorance.
What is ignorance?
Ignorance is absence of understanding. We fail to understand that in the fight against Aids many lives are at stake.
If we really understood then our behaviour would have changed long ago. We would be venting a virtual onslaught on Aids without reservations.
The value of understanding is worth everything we own; everything we ever wish to have.
Ignorance is a problem.
It has been a source of power for tyrants, dictators and despots. It has been the fuel of the engines of tyrants and dictators.
Ignorance is damn dangerous. Slavery got its strength from ignorance.
Those who enslaved people had one philosophy: don’t educate them. If you teach a person to read he will know what you know.
Knowledge is the enemy of ignorance.
Someone said, tongue – in – cheek , “if you want to hide something from a blackman, put it in a book.” Ignorance is the power of oppression.
If we let Ignorance light our path and guide us through life then we have a task master for a guide. Well grope around in the darkness that is its light.
That’s why it’s important to have our priorities carved in stone and be true to our convictions. Our number one enemy is ignorance.
Wake up Africa ! We cannot afford to sit down comfortably and belch, thinking all we have done is enough. It simply isn’t.
Aids is not playing games with anyone. Not even the high and mighty.
It is not joking. How tragic , then, that we joke with our precious lives as guinea pigs in ludicrous experimentations.
Ignorance in this matter is tantamount to visiting suffering unto ourselves and families. This is not only avoidable but cruel.
A heavy gust has been blowing from the west bringing western cultures with it. Cultures that don’t give a hoot about conventional moral codes.
Our youth have been more than ready to embrace and replace them for their own. Dressing, music, literature and many more dubious ones.
What do we make of our young men dressed with their trousers at ‘half mast’ (half way up their bottoms) exposing God – Knows – What!
What about scores of pornographic literature that have littered our streets and the dark recesses of our own homes. And the countless numbers of pornographic sites on the internet available on the screen at the click of the mouse.
Where are we headed if these things are not food for thought to us? What will come of us if we let westernization creep onto us and change what we know to be true?
A great number of people will continually be decimated by this formidable scourge if we fail to take up the right arms against it.
Being Ignorant people, people who are not ready to change, means we have relinquished our future to what it holds without our ever changing it. It’s a dangerous position.
Lord Budha said : A heart that follows the path of ignorance does infinitely greater harm to man than his most hateful and vicious enemy.
Let us join our hands in a tight grip leaving no space between us and face our common enemy: Aids. Let’s stand on the rooftops and shout out loud against everything that propagates the scourge.
No form of ignorance should be allowed between us and our enemy. Otherwise this would mar our vision, block our arrows and ground every effort towards attaining our goal.
One Laurence J. Peter said: Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to re-establish.
The day we can say this in all honesty we will have made one step forward.
And that’s the bottom line.
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