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The obfuscating conundrum in which the world is roasting presently calls for
sincere mediation and de-indoctrination therapy if the entire human race will ever
enjoy a blissful co-existence based on rational and objective thought process
instead of the present evil we all call school of thoughts in both political and
economic parameters of global existence. The subtle mannerism and profound
methodology with which the invidious Easternism and the traitorous egocentric
Westernism, as untrammeled power of world view, has crept into our psyche as
a people is not only outrageous but seriously challenging and unquestionably
threatening to our fragile institutions either as nations or kingdoms. The
attendant division it has unleashed on our world can only be imagined. Human
disasters all over the world are now viewed and explained on the platform of
which divide you have come to adopt in life. Terrorism is simply explained off, so
are wars and social upheavals in the most delicate parts of our common habitat.
Easternism is this article is simply the concepts that postulates Eastern mental
universe anchored on the external orientation with the primary loyalty to Islamism
or Arabism, which rhetorically is in congruent contradiction to Western
ideologies and principles that is seemingly predicated on the doctrines
supposedly hinged on Christianity. Whether we believe it or denounce it,
Easternism has evolved as a universal ideology completely and precisely aimed
at the goal of Arab/Islamic solidarity, collaboration and identity. This scenario is
not new as it was first introduced as a tool to divide the civilized world into the
East and West blocks. In 1928, a political newspaper Al-Siyasa al-usbu’iyya in
Egypt predominantly advances the movement. It was a derivative, not intrinsic,
concept to strengthen everything against the apparently well defined,
homogenous and dominant West. In simple sense, the East only derives a
meaning in contrast to the West.
By 1932, the Journal of the Eastern Bond Society in its editorial on “Eastern
Idea” presented a retrospective concept denoting “Asia and Africa in comparison
to the western idea of Europe and America”. The definition and identity is more or
less circumstantial in its derivation. Hence Easternism is a form of expression of
the character peculiar with the violent battle between Imperialism and freedom, or
between the West and the East. So the concept is more of reactivism rather
than a sincere bond of internal solidarity. The weakness of Easternism is that it
only rallies against the West rather than evolve a developmental agenda that will
empower the solidarity and emancipate the people or nations within its scope of
identity. This is the reason for the implosion currently happening in the Arab
springs lately, because for too long the West has been published as the problem
but now their people see the leaders of Arab as the real problems. I will come
back to this later.
Westernism is a concept that has its root in Greco-Roman civilization and the
advent of Christianity. It simply refers to the nations of the West and its influence
and control over other nations. The concept of Westernism postulates Western
mental world and the total absorption of its values and norm. The West could
also be defined on the basis of the Renaissance, The Protestant Reformation,
The Enlightenment and The Expansive Colonialism of the 16th and 17th century.
Westernism is a term used broadly to represent heritage of social norms, ethical
values, traditional customs, religious beliefs, political systems, artifacts and
technologies of the people of the West. Whichever way you prefer to look at it,
the West is simply the Imperialist world of domination and conquest. The East
sees it as the evil incarnation of our world. The West is seen as an empire that
employs “expansionist doctrine”. The domination of the West definitely confers
on it the emblems of hatred and articles of disaffection by not so successful
entities.
Much of anti-West rhetoric sees the finger of the West in havocs and
destructions in its quest to the pursuit of mostly selfish aims at the detriment of
other nations. However, the West believes their only antidote to widespread
criticism of policies and control is the pride with which they attend every issue
and the arrogance of conduct and candor. I will not digress in my approach at the
topic above anyway.
Colonialism remains the single most unforgivable sin of the West, with which the
East portrays a sign of solidarity to the third world nations especially with
grievances on the continued exploitation of their labor and resources even at post-
colonial state. A great sense of outrage emerged at the imperialistic nature of
America as the front-runner of the Western agenda, with its sincerely selfish
foreign policy among nations of the world. Another major scourge of the West is
the cultural imperialism through which traditional values of developing countries
are eroded substantially by their “Modernization”. I particularly detest it myself.
In the middle of this contest of relevance and domination are many of us who
have no other means of defining our world, our existence, our perception, our
understanding, our views, our culture, our history, our beliefs, our opinions, our
dispositions, our tastes, our focus and ultimately our reasons for being humans
in the first place. So many of us are infernally consumed by the story lines of the
Western or Eastern tale tellers who presents the other one as bad and only
theirs are good. The harsh reality of the extent of our rancorous and resentful
discourse in political and social concerns leaves a bomb in the middle of both
divide. An average Muslim and Christian have completely lost everything that
made them human first before their acceptance of devotion to their avowed faith.
All over, it is either one is fuelled by the doctrines of the concept of Westernism
or Easternism. The acerbity of our loyalty to the system of believes now defines
our world, unfortunately.
We now have two worlds. One is created by the lust and passion for control and
dominance of the landscape of the Earth at the expense of peace and
understanding. This world is the Western World that bludgeons its way
ruthlessly through the social and political will of sovereignties. The other world is
created by a severe, hugely violent, and hatred-filled, terrorist-inclined order that
works in total opposition to the dominating West. The Eastern World is simply a
reactive world engaged in a violent “liberation” of the world from the Imperialist
West. Behind the two worlds are ill-driven agenda postulated and advanced by
men that have no regards or respect for human liberty and choice.
A critical look at both worlds suggests an evil been attacked by a greater evil,
and the real world stands still with winds of violence and waves of fear visited
upon it by ordinary men who has no regard for God and no respect for men but
eternally consumed with the passions of exterminating each other and waiting for
the last man standing.
Let me come home to Nigeria now. It is so disheartening to see how Nigerians
view issues of world history and contemporary occurrences. Even those who
have not left the shores of Nigeria ever sees with the eyes of deception
championed by the two worlds. Everything Western is evil but yet their
technology and their songs are good to them. All Eastern culture and
representations are bad yet Dubai is a great land to visit; their gold is good to put
on. The Western News Media are portrayed as evil driven by an agenda as
perceived by a man who is corruptly indoctrinated by the East yet he has all their
channels in the secrecy of his home. The Eastern News Media is also seen by a
corruptly Westernized man as only tellers of errors and defender of terrorism yet
he watches Al-Jazeera with somber reflection in the corners of his abode.
The truth is both can be good if only balance is introduced. After all, nature itself
teaches balance in everything we do. There is nothing absolutely evil about either
the West or the East except their rivalry for domination and the indoctrination of
extremism that is malignantly dividing the world. A man who has no intellect
should be redefined as one who is passionately consumed by the excessive lies
of the extremism of either world. An illiterate is one, though educated in letters,
but ignorant in the wisdom of denouncing evil when seen. As humans, we have
the prerogative of objectivity not to consume anything hook, line and sinker. I live
in the West but not consumed with the passion of defending it against all sense
of equity and balance. I criticize when evident evil is done by the West and
commend when good comes from them.
The most annoying thing about the negative influences of both the West and the
East is when Religion becomes intricately interwoven with it. The truth must be
told here. East and West does not represent any religion but a parochial agenda.
Certain perceive Islam as evil including all its practioners and will not realize it is
also part of the concept of the West. Many also see Christians as the first
enemy to be consumed because it is part of the teachings of Easternism. We
are now at a crossroad where there is absolute intolerance and disrespect for
lives and property because we live in two different Worlds of East and West
consumed in the rivalry of dominating us. It is obvious from the writings on the
wall that Easternism only wishes to possess a relative domination or at least a
balance with the arrogance of the West. There is nothing to suggest it will bring a
better alternative because it is also selfishly driven and ruthlessly disrespectful.
Believe me sincerely; both West and East are just mere same identity
competing for our servitude. Both have no plans for us as Nigerians or Africans
but absolutely entrenched in their quest to wrestle power and dominate forever.
I heard a statement recently that goes like this “One man’s terrorist is another
man’s freedom fighter”. The discussions that followed that statement brought the
monster out of some of the discussants. Evil is no longer seen as evil but
explained on the doctrines that pro-Easterners should see terrorism as freedom
fighting and pro-Westerners should see it the other way. Evil is evil, and cannot
be called any other name by any school of thoughts.
Finally, in our quest for self-control and actualization, we as individuals must
cultivate the excellence of freeing our minds from the innuendoes of doctrines
that perpetuates us in servitude and bondage. The West and the East has
divided us for too long and it is high time we left their indoctrination. Our
loquacious verbiage of petty parochial thinking should stop as we embrace a
broadminded scope of understanding the world. Let us think first as humans and
not as Easternized or Westernized folks.
Olumide Goodness Adeyinka can be reached at nigardgroup@yahoo.com
sincere mediation and de-indoctrination therapy if the entire human race will ever
enjoy a blissful co-existence based on rational and objective thought process
instead of the present evil we all call school of thoughts in both political and
economic parameters of global existence. The subtle mannerism and profound
methodology with which the invidious Easternism and the traitorous egocentric
Westernism, as untrammeled power of world view, has crept into our psyche as
a people is not only outrageous but seriously challenging and unquestionably
threatening to our fragile institutions either as nations or kingdoms. The
attendant division it has unleashed on our world can only be imagined. Human
disasters all over the world are now viewed and explained on the platform of
which divide you have come to adopt in life. Terrorism is simply explained off, so
are wars and social upheavals in the most delicate parts of our common habitat.
Easternism is this article is simply the concepts that postulates Eastern mental
universe anchored on the external orientation with the primary loyalty to Islamism
or Arabism, which rhetorically is in congruent contradiction to Western
ideologies and principles that is seemingly predicated on the doctrines
supposedly hinged on Christianity. Whether we believe it or denounce it,
Easternism has evolved as a universal ideology completely and precisely aimed
at the goal of Arab/Islamic solidarity, collaboration and identity. This scenario is
not new as it was first introduced as a tool to divide the civilized world into the
East and West blocks. In 1928, a political newspaper Al-Siyasa al-usbu’iyya in
Egypt predominantly advances the movement. It was a derivative, not intrinsic,
concept to strengthen everything against the apparently well defined,
homogenous and dominant West. In simple sense, the East only derives a
meaning in contrast to the West.
By 1932, the Journal of the Eastern Bond Society in its editorial on “Eastern
Idea” presented a retrospective concept denoting “Asia and Africa in comparison
to the western idea of Europe and America”. The definition and identity is more or
less circumstantial in its derivation. Hence Easternism is a form of expression of
the character peculiar with the violent battle between Imperialism and freedom, or
between the West and the East. So the concept is more of reactivism rather
than a sincere bond of internal solidarity. The weakness of Easternism is that it
only rallies against the West rather than evolve a developmental agenda that will
empower the solidarity and emancipate the people or nations within its scope of
identity. This is the reason for the implosion currently happening in the Arab
springs lately, because for too long the West has been published as the problem
but now their people see the leaders of Arab as the real problems. I will come
back to this later.
Westernism is a concept that has its root in Greco-Roman civilization and the
advent of Christianity. It simply refers to the nations of the West and its influence
and control over other nations. The concept of Westernism postulates Western
mental world and the total absorption of its values and norm. The West could
also be defined on the basis of the Renaissance, The Protestant Reformation,
The Enlightenment and The Expansive Colonialism of the 16th and 17th century.
Westernism is a term used broadly to represent heritage of social norms, ethical
values, traditional customs, religious beliefs, political systems, artifacts and
technologies of the people of the West. Whichever way you prefer to look at it,
the West is simply the Imperialist world of domination and conquest. The East
sees it as the evil incarnation of our world. The West is seen as an empire that
employs “expansionist doctrine”. The domination of the West definitely confers
on it the emblems of hatred and articles of disaffection by not so successful
entities.
Much of anti-West rhetoric sees the finger of the West in havocs and
destructions in its quest to the pursuit of mostly selfish aims at the detriment of
other nations. However, the West believes their only antidote to widespread
criticism of policies and control is the pride with which they attend every issue
and the arrogance of conduct and candor. I will not digress in my approach at the
topic above anyway.
Colonialism remains the single most unforgivable sin of the West, with which the
East portrays a sign of solidarity to the third world nations especially with
grievances on the continued exploitation of their labor and resources even at post-
colonial state. A great sense of outrage emerged at the imperialistic nature of
America as the front-runner of the Western agenda, with its sincerely selfish
foreign policy among nations of the world. Another major scourge of the West is
the cultural imperialism through which traditional values of developing countries
are eroded substantially by their “Modernization”. I particularly detest it myself.
In the middle of this contest of relevance and domination are many of us who
have no other means of defining our world, our existence, our perception, our
understanding, our views, our culture, our history, our beliefs, our opinions, our
dispositions, our tastes, our focus and ultimately our reasons for being humans
in the first place. So many of us are infernally consumed by the story lines of the
Western or Eastern tale tellers who presents the other one as bad and only
theirs are good. The harsh reality of the extent of our rancorous and resentful
discourse in political and social concerns leaves a bomb in the middle of both
divide. An average Muslim and Christian have completely lost everything that
made them human first before their acceptance of devotion to their avowed faith.
All over, it is either one is fuelled by the doctrines of the concept of Westernism
or Easternism. The acerbity of our loyalty to the system of believes now defines
our world, unfortunately.
We now have two worlds. One is created by the lust and passion for control and
dominance of the landscape of the Earth at the expense of peace and
understanding. This world is the Western World that bludgeons its way
ruthlessly through the social and political will of sovereignties. The other world is
created by a severe, hugely violent, and hatred-filled, terrorist-inclined order that
works in total opposition to the dominating West. The Eastern World is simply a
reactive world engaged in a violent “liberation” of the world from the Imperialist
West. Behind the two worlds are ill-driven agenda postulated and advanced by
men that have no regards or respect for human liberty and choice.
A critical look at both worlds suggests an evil been attacked by a greater evil,
and the real world stands still with winds of violence and waves of fear visited
upon it by ordinary men who has no regard for God and no respect for men but
eternally consumed with the passions of exterminating each other and waiting for
the last man standing.
Let me come home to Nigeria now. It is so disheartening to see how Nigerians
view issues of world history and contemporary occurrences. Even those who
have not left the shores of Nigeria ever sees with the eyes of deception
championed by the two worlds. Everything Western is evil but yet their
technology and their songs are good to them. All Eastern culture and
representations are bad yet Dubai is a great land to visit; their gold is good to put
on. The Western News Media are portrayed as evil driven by an agenda as
perceived by a man who is corruptly indoctrinated by the East yet he has all their
channels in the secrecy of his home. The Eastern News Media is also seen by a
corruptly Westernized man as only tellers of errors and defender of terrorism yet
he watches Al-Jazeera with somber reflection in the corners of his abode.
The truth is both can be good if only balance is introduced. After all, nature itself
teaches balance in everything we do. There is nothing absolutely evil about either
the West or the East except their rivalry for domination and the indoctrination of
extremism that is malignantly dividing the world. A man who has no intellect
should be redefined as one who is passionately consumed by the excessive lies
of the extremism of either world. An illiterate is one, though educated in letters,
but ignorant in the wisdom of denouncing evil when seen. As humans, we have
the prerogative of objectivity not to consume anything hook, line and sinker. I live
in the West but not consumed with the passion of defending it against all sense
of equity and balance. I criticize when evident evil is done by the West and
commend when good comes from them.
The most annoying thing about the negative influences of both the West and the
East is when Religion becomes intricately interwoven with it. The truth must be
told here. East and West does not represent any religion but a parochial agenda.
Certain perceive Islam as evil including all its practioners and will not realize it is
also part of the concept of the West. Many also see Christians as the first
enemy to be consumed because it is part of the teachings of Easternism. We
are now at a crossroad where there is absolute intolerance and disrespect for
lives and property because we live in two different Worlds of East and West
consumed in the rivalry of dominating us. It is obvious from the writings on the
wall that Easternism only wishes to possess a relative domination or at least a
balance with the arrogance of the West. There is nothing to suggest it will bring a
better alternative because it is also selfishly driven and ruthlessly disrespectful.
Believe me sincerely; both West and East are just mere same identity
competing for our servitude. Both have no plans for us as Nigerians or Africans
but absolutely entrenched in their quest to wrestle power and dominate forever.
I heard a statement recently that goes like this “One man’s terrorist is another
man’s freedom fighter”. The discussions that followed that statement brought the
monster out of some of the discussants. Evil is no longer seen as evil but
explained on the doctrines that pro-Easterners should see terrorism as freedom
fighting and pro-Westerners should see it the other way. Evil is evil, and cannot
be called any other name by any school of thoughts.
Finally, in our quest for self-control and actualization, we as individuals must
cultivate the excellence of freeing our minds from the innuendoes of doctrines
that perpetuates us in servitude and bondage. The West and the East has
divided us for too long and it is high time we left their indoctrination. Our
loquacious verbiage of petty parochial thinking should stop as we embrace a
broadminded scope of understanding the world. Let us think first as humans and
not as Easternized or Westernized folks.
Olumide Goodness Adeyinka can be reached at nigardgroup@yahoo.com
By Olumide Goodness Adeyinka
African Examiner, Wednesday September 14, 2011
African Examiner, Wednesday September 14, 2011
The East vs West Indoctrination and World Divide
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