No one can control him
Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
Professor of History/African Studies, CCSU
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Founding Coordinator, African Studies, CCSU
Toyin Falola
We are witnessing the emergence of the Techno-State. Its forms will be visible, as in the technofeudalism that the Musk-Trump alliance represents, and some will be invisible, as in the technosurveillance that Gates/WHO represents.
You can no longer use the textbook paradigm of the state and the rich to analyze this emerging situation.
Break down your expenses—the state gives you the money, and three people collect it back from you: the mortgage company, the car dealer, and the grocery store owner. Even many do not understand this older form, now with a powerful layer on top.
Break down your behaviours, emotions and values—they have shifted from the traditional to the control by the state.
TF
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Dele Layiwola
Cornelius Hamelberg
Sounds so dystopian
Are we already, soon
There ?
Mud Slide Slim And the Blue Horizon...
Mud Slide, I’m depending on you
Michael Afolayan
Oluwatoyin Adepoju
The man is trying to reshape US society and government.
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Toyin Falola
Your last line is an eschatological error. History is not stationary, as in something coming to pass. The slave trade began in the 15th century and lasted till the 19th. Yes, it stopped, but the human suffering for hundreds of years during and after is enormous.
As I tell my Nigerian people, living in an age of greed, things may continue for decades into the future with enormous damages.
If Trump creates a new ideology of power—manifested as in his most recent extreme statement that Palestinians should be relocated elsewhere—even if Trump leaves in four years, the damage is enormous. Ethnic cleansing is what he is talking about. This may trigger recolonization, including of various African countries.
TF
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Oluwatoyin Adepoju
Even the US could be negatively impacted by his govt, leaving deep problems
Cornelius Hamelberg
Lord Michael Afolayan,
For the times they are a-changin'
May I suggest that you get in touch with my buddy Peter Holst the editor-in-chief at
Why?
I’m impressed. At Sunday school in Umuahia where the Pentecostal fanatics babbled in tongues and sang with a frenzy, Omewo rom ya, I learned that wherever you read in the Bible, “And it came to pass” , it’s never good news that follows. ”And it came to pass” always presages disaster, round the corner - although the New Testament authors ( always inspired by the Holy Spirit of course) always wrote about the future or the past, never in the present continuous. How could they, when the Gospels were composed long after Jesus arose and ascended to Heaven? Ojogbon the historian knows all too well that “History is not stationary” and hopefully, so do we , that “ time marches on”. Yet such were his premonitions , not unlike Jesus, he himself anticipating the future, speaking from personal experience, albeit without fear, ( it was not yet the good old days of Sani Abacha) and in retrospect Ojogbon says in Counting the Tiger's Teeth,
” I was worried, nervous in that moment that the end of history was in sight, that the end of the world was near. I would be gone to join my father in heaven, a place of no return. Soon we would all be dead. Our struggles were for a better life, but the end was death. If the dog was dead, we all would follow, slaughtered like him, to be decapitated, brutalised, violently killed. Only, unlike the dog, we had notice, and we prepared for the fatal and violent end. Let it come. We were eager to invite death.”
I was thinking about these things while listening to Sabine Hossenfelder’s lecture Does the Past Still Exist?
What you’re saying is that this shit has happened once before and therefore could happen once again, at least once more and hopefully mankind will survive and remain human.
I’m impressed: Your lines “ a new Sheriff is in town” etc read like they’ve come straight out of one of those newsletters, and could fit in snugly with some issue at a future date whilst Trump is still busy Making America Great Again
NB : But Elon Musk is completely under control. He has a boss : Jesus