The Virtue of Selfishness (1)

Next to something you love is something you like. Is it possible then that you may not like what you love? Is it possible, maybe probable that you may dislike (i.e. not like) what you love? I think very few of us think to make the distinction between those things or those persons we love and those things or those persons that we think we like and those that we ascribe the emotion of loving love. We are often forced to assume that the two words, love and like, mean the same thing. They may have and in some people convey the same or similar meanings, or convy the same or similar emotions, but they are cetainly not the one and the same. You may like and not love. You may love and not like. Only discerning people hold this as the truth and nothing but the truth.

Consider this: Your spouse likes you. How often does he say he loves you? Don't bother to count. His love is limited to the thing he likes about you. You know this is the truth. You know he probably likes your face; your backside; your hair or the way your face looks. He likes your company because he enjoys the time you have together (and those you spend together). He has to make you feel special so that you make him feel comfortable. Yes, his selfishness is the reason you have him where you want him. Believe me, you do not want to change him into a selfless being. Encourage his selfishness, because in so doing you comfortably and conviniently disguise your own selfishness.

I love to be selfish. You should. Otherwise, how would you bring yourself to do those menial jobs you call homekeeping? You know there is a reward in it. From whom? Your loving husband of course. Is he not to show kindness and compassion towards you? Does he not say he loves you even though he means that he likes how you look after him (and the house and kids)?

Think selfish. Act selfish. We need more of it in the world. America needs to protect its selfish interests (including compelling compliance with its own notion of democracy) to maintain its status as the only superpower in the world.

There is virtue in selfishness!

The Virtue of Selfishness

It is because I need this read that I wrote. It is because you need reading material that you came. You and I have our reasons for doing what we do. We are selfish. We are not selfless, because selflessness means you are without self. How could you be without self?

Think about it: Unless you were really selfish, you would not have had a direction. You may allow yourself wait on providence to lift and drag you along. Providence does not condone indulence even if it was gracious. Yes, I mean your idleness and waiting on destiny's child to lead the way is not productive; it defeats ingenuity, driving to the pits any semblance of productivity. Should you then, perchance consider productivity, think selfishly; be selfish. That is what made the likes of Bill Gates of this world.

Think about it.

Obama: The African in Him

Tomorrow, it is speculated, the erstwhile rival of Barack Obama, presumptive Democratic Party Nominee for the 2008 presidential election in the United States, former first lady Hilary Clinton will end her campaign. Whatever that means, I don't know. I want to believe she will be putting a stop to further spending and rethorical speech making. I think it is time. I think it is time for everyone, especially those of us in Africa, to begin searching our souls to understand the implications of an Obama candidacy and maybe, an Obama presidency of the 'greatest country' on earth. We already have enough material to ponder on.

We must recall that Obama is the son of a Kenyan father. He has been to Africa, but has said categorically that he is NOT A MUSLIM. He needed to say that. What with the trouble his Pastor caused him along the way and his soft spot for Hamaz et al. This son of an African father has really learnt the spicing up of the American dream. Those of us who refuse to dream may just have to ask of what benefit is an Obama candidacy and or presidency of America to us.

They say it is going to be historic. The first AFRICAN AMERICAN to be the candidate of a leading political party in America. The first. Yes. But what is leading about the Democratic Party. The number of supporters or amount of money they play with? Obama may be black, but he certainly is not African and no African nation, including Kenya, should expect Obama to win and be in office 'for the 2016 olympics?' Now, America would not be America. How many of you have read THE MAN by Leon Uris? Or was it ....!

There is Africa about Obama. Africa is not in him. Africa will never be with him. Africans must realise that whatever Bankole says on Africa World Tonight, that radio/tv show, is only Havard wishful thinking. The indoctrination of the American 'we are the world' machine lives on.