THINKING ENHANCES OUR BECOMING

Selby Vusimusi Moyo
Activist

By Selby Moyo
Activist

Sometimes we wonder why we can’t change anything or see things change because we seldom sit back and think.

Or maybe we do, but to no effect because we lack self-confidence and to a large extent our self-worth is eroded!

This was bound to happen at some point.

Why?

Because we are not developing our thinking capacity.

And why are we not developing our thinking capacity?

Well, we have to be outright honest, if our brains still have it in them to know what it means to be honest.

We have to be truthful and admit that we have relegated our thinking to someone else, or to some group of people.

We have given our duty to think to some group which we expect to do the thinking on our behalf.

Yet it is clear that as a group their thinking capacity is already exhausted and that they can’t think any further than they can or have.

Now what compounds matters is that the said group can’t and doesn’t want to admit that they cannot think anymore.

We will support them because since we “elected” them then they surely know what they are doing; that we can now “kick back and relax,” for, after all we pay taxes for them to “work”

We have lost the capacity to think and understand that we have it in ourselves as the majority to think and do things for ourselves.

Immediately we stop thinking then we lose our status as human beings and this is the worst evil we can unleash upon ourselves, and we have ourselves to blame for refusing to build our own becoming.

Our becoming depends on our being, which pretty much depends on us being thinking beings.

Do you remember the dictum: “I think, therefore I am…Corgito ergo sum” by Rene Descartes?

Now in a cultic government such as we have today, people cease to think and become observers who are comfortable in the dark, just like the prisoners in Plato’s allegory, who couldn’t recognise that light signalled freedom.

When there is someone who makes a noise they are quick to silence or cast them out.

This as they don’t want to be discovered that they lack confidence, have fear and lack courage to change the situation.

Real thinkers have been courageous and in our situation people like Anton Lembede, Robert Sobukwe, Steve Biko, Thomas Sankara, Traore etc have had the courage to stand out and face the proverbial light and enhance it in order to spur us on into action.

But we have become political cheerleaders instead of being thinkers and we merely engage in reinterpreting what the erstwhile thinkers of our struggle have bequeathed us.

What we have subjected ourselves to is thinking within the parameters set by those who want us to remain zombified.

No one respects non-thinking people (translate this as saying no one respects zombies!) and that is why some cult leaders in our midst have the audacity to utter statements like: “those who are unemployed are lazy.”

This statement is oblivious of the fact that the cult leaders and their cohorts are in fact architects of unemployment and this uttering doesn’t constitute thinking, but represents arrogance and disrespect.

Our current situation can lead to an unintended becoming because we are constrained from thinking.

We can cannibalise ourselves because we have already started killing one another en masse.

Who knows, maybe at some point we may become “Soylent Green.”.

Our becoming is becoming pathetic and we can literally start eating each other unless we start thinking as we should.