APPRENTICESHIP IN LIBERTY vs APPRENTICESHIP IN ANARCHY
APPRENTICESHIP IN LIBERTY vs APPRENTICESHIP IN ANARCHY
CHIBU NDUBUISI 20/11/2017
Peace be upon you.
To be an apprentice is to be engaged in a learning process to acquire the basic training of a subject of interest. The word “Apprenticeship in Liberty” was first used by Alexis de Tocqueville to explain that multiple variables are responsible for guiding us on the path of liberty to live responsibly.
Apprenticeship in Anarchy can be likened to when particular political, economic, religious and social systems keep propping and galvanizing people directly or indirectly through acts of commission or omission to keep fanning the flames of anarchy.
I will employ some examples to buttress the two ideas of “Liberty and Anarchy”. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are dreaming and committing huge resources to help rid the world of some diseases, reduce infant and child mortality, Improve health systems, boost agricultural production, encourage family planning, support education and improve financial services for women. The Tony Elumelu Foundation on the other hand is empowering thousands of Africans to make them create “Social Wealth” for their communities through the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) support. This is a clear example of foundations that have been schooled and are schooling people in the principles of “Apprenticeship of Liberty”.
The second example has to do with the deliberate actions of some states government to keep undermining and under funding the educational system in Nigeria. The “Alamajiri System” in the Northern part of the country is a time bomb because the boys are used as willing tools for triggering instability. Former Governor of Rivers State, Nigeria, Mr Rotimi Amaechi threatened to make the country ungovernable and invoking that anarchy will be set on the country if the opposition loses the 2015 general elections. This is an example of education for war and no room for that in liberty principles.
There is equally the very pathetic story of meningitis outbreak in Zamfara state, Nigeria, which claimed the lives of citizens of the state. The only information that came from the Governor of the state was that those who died were as a result of their “sins”. No medical explanation. This is ignorance of the highest order coming from the Chief Executive of the State and ignorance is not a constituent of liberty. We must be properly informed.
We are dreaming of “Silencing the Guns” in Africa by 2020 and some power mongers just overthrew the government of President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe on the 15/11/2017 through the barrel of the Gun. Investing in the instrument of destruction is not the constituent of the liberty. The ballot box can serve the purpose of change of government.
Those who are not schooled in the apprenticeship of liberty resort to the politics of anger rather than respect, politics of grievances rather than resolution, politics of war rather than negotiation, politics of ignorance rather than proper information, politics of destruction rather than building, politics of intimidation rather than accommodation, politics of intolerance rather than tolerance, politics of gender exclusion rather than inclusion and politics of irresponsibility rather than responsibility.
Someone wrote that “change in the world always begins with an individual who shares what he or she has learnt and passes it on to others”. In my blog post of Last week we dwelt on the exposition by Mark Zukerberg on types of communities from the Supportive, Safe, Informed, Civically engaged and inclusive communities. Leveraging on these community pedestal, family pedestal we learn some of the needed principles of liberty.
Peace be with you
Read more insightful articles @chibundubuisi.blogspot.com
CHIBU NDUBUISI 20/11/2017
Peace be upon you.
To be an apprentice is to be engaged in a learning process to acquire the basic training of a subject of interest. The word “Apprenticeship in Liberty” was first used by Alexis de Tocqueville to explain that multiple variables are responsible for guiding us on the path of liberty to live responsibly.
Apprenticeship in Anarchy can be likened to when particular political, economic, religious and social systems keep propping and galvanizing people directly or indirectly through acts of commission or omission to keep fanning the flames of anarchy.
I will employ some examples to buttress the two ideas of “Liberty and Anarchy”. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are dreaming and committing huge resources to help rid the world of some diseases, reduce infant and child mortality, Improve health systems, boost agricultural production, encourage family planning, support education and improve financial services for women. The Tony Elumelu Foundation on the other hand is empowering thousands of Africans to make them create “Social Wealth” for their communities through the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) support. This is a clear example of foundations that have been schooled and are schooling people in the principles of “Apprenticeship of Liberty”.
The second example has to do with the deliberate actions of some states government to keep undermining and under funding the educational system in Nigeria. The “Alamajiri System” in the Northern part of the country is a time bomb because the boys are used as willing tools for triggering instability. Former Governor of Rivers State, Nigeria, Mr Rotimi Amaechi threatened to make the country ungovernable and invoking that anarchy will be set on the country if the opposition loses the 2015 general elections. This is an example of education for war and no room for that in liberty principles.
There is equally the very pathetic story of meningitis outbreak in Zamfara state, Nigeria, which claimed the lives of citizens of the state. The only information that came from the Governor of the state was that those who died were as a result of their “sins”. No medical explanation. This is ignorance of the highest order coming from the Chief Executive of the State and ignorance is not a constituent of liberty. We must be properly informed.
We are dreaming of “Silencing the Guns” in Africa by 2020 and some power mongers just overthrew the government of President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe on the 15/11/2017 through the barrel of the Gun. Investing in the instrument of destruction is not the constituent of the liberty. The ballot box can serve the purpose of change of government.
Those who are not schooled in the apprenticeship of liberty resort to the politics of anger rather than respect, politics of grievances rather than resolution, politics of war rather than negotiation, politics of ignorance rather than proper information, politics of destruction rather than building, politics of intimidation rather than accommodation, politics of intolerance rather than tolerance, politics of gender exclusion rather than inclusion and politics of irresponsibility rather than responsibility.
Someone wrote that “change in the world always begins with an individual who shares what he or she has learnt and passes it on to others”. In my blog post of Last week we dwelt on the exposition by Mark Zukerberg on types of communities from the Supportive, Safe, Informed, Civically engaged and inclusive communities. Leveraging on these community pedestal, family pedestal we learn some of the needed principles of liberty.
Peace be with you
Read more insightful articles @chibundubuisi.blogspot.com
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