THE
STING OF CIVILIZATION
-Isralmore Ayivor
-Isralmore Ayivor
The common saying that
“every action has a reaction” is undoubtedly applicable in diverse areas of
life. Likewise every rose flower has thorns around it. This clearly teaches
that even things viewed to be highly valuable equally have hidden laggings
somewhere. The ‘bee’, a species belonging to a class of insects is well noted
for its economic importance, thus production of honey. This same tiny animal is
also known to be made up of a “sting” with which it “bites” an individual when
tempered with inflicting painful sensation and swelling at the site involved.
Civilization when
viewed critically with unbiased spiritual eyes is a ‘metaphorical bee’ in the
sense that it does not only ‘open the eyes’ of humans to device better and
advanced means living, but also it has
‘closed their minds’ from knowing where they are being led to. The verb
‘civilize’ which means ‘to influence peoples’ behavior, making or teaching them
to act in a more sensible or gentle way also can be described as ‘to behave in
a way that is more ‘fair’, ‘comfortable’, ‘developed’ and ‘suitable’.
There is no need
arguing the fact that civilization as led the hands of many humans out of
ignorance where man can now easily understand how things do happen, for
instance causes of diseases. The credit goes again to civilization, for by
virtue of it, advancement in communication methods, transport and many more
developments wouldn’t have been a success now. Imagine how the world would have
been without a climb to this level, courtesy civilization. We would be unfair
if we don’t put our hands together for the great work done by civilization
through scientific explorations, clinical advancements and technological
inventions that made life on earth so easy. However, despite all these
benefits, civilization stands proud to present to us parcels of vices
containing uncountable pieces of dirty practices that do nothing than preparing
us for the devil’s butchering knives. No controversy! This concept is more of a
panel, prepared to scrutinize some of the stings that this metaphorical bee has
developed to inflict pains to those who pursue its laurels.
First of all, lets spot
the sudden changes in the costume adorn by today’s victims of civilization.
There is no denying the fact that the principal reason for clothing oneself is
to hide one’s nakedness, any other reason could be acceptable but not
principal. Unfortunately modern civilized folks have invented different reasons
for this and the former reason is almost given a kick into extinction. See how
this parlous state of our current world is provokingly excusing real virtues.
If you ask today’s music pop star or entertainer or a talented beauty pageant
to prescribe attire for you to use on stage, guess the types he or she would
offer for you to make your choices. Only few or even nobody will attest to the
fact that these people we see especially on the screens do exhibit the premier,
divine, authentic biblical and principal reason for dressing even if they have
it in their minds at all. Another modernly civilized accomplice of the above
named villains is the carnal fashion designer under whose tutelage this ‘bee’
continues to reproduce more species whose stings become adapted to carry out
whatever they were bred to do. All these people are civilized, no need to argue
this out. But have under the preamble of various thoughts deviated from the
ideal; thoughts arising from ‘immoral desires’, ‘inordinate affections’
‘luxurious ideations’ and ‘mundane folly’. Dressings have now taken hold of the
much awaited chance to become excessively glittering, meager or inadequate, explicitly
stylish, transparent and permissively attractive to spectators. We should
however note that no matter the admiration or condemnation we give to these
alterations, no matter how appealing or appalling they are, it is evident that
the some souls and spirits of the bodies on which these attires hang are not as
glittering as the attires that hang on their bodies. More clearly, the unsaved,
stinky and rotten souls of some of these civilized are in well decorated,
shinny, transparent, stylish and attractive wears. Of which benefit at all is
it to find a dead soul in mechanized apparels? Or is it a modern interpretation
of what Bible calls ‘a white tomb’ containing ‘unclean bones of dead people’? A
Christian convert who was once a slave, encapsulated by the thirst for fleshly
pleasures announced that her conversion was primarily pivoted by a simple
question she asked herself but could not identify worthy answers to support
this question. The questions she said was; ‘who am I pleasing with my costume’?
Question of destitution it is! Possible answers arising; ‘God’ or ‘human being’?
‘A mortal soul or an immortal spirit’? Can an attractively inadequate attire be
used to please God? “If it’s meant to please God, is it to do this by seducing
Him? Its real that God cannot be seduced by a lady’s sexy cloth, He is a
supernatural spirit and that cannot happen. But would He approve of something
seductive?” Think about those questions for a moment. Perhaps it could be an
anti-venom for the poison of the stinging bee.
Mother civilization had
nursed human hands with crafty skills; how experienced and skillfully have they
now graduated into. The evidential services are not far-fetched. Though the
moral lessons transmitted to generations through audiovisual inventions, still
civilization has in stock some consumers to sting there too. The major preys
for this bait are those folks who fail to interpret the sarcastic bacons from
this ironic intruder. Through the manual dexterity of the inventors, more
adjustment are even made from time to time that the eyes of those, to whom the
handiwork appeals cannot afford to blink to lose a glimpse of these so called
civilized follies.
Talk briefly about the
violence that skillfully magisterial violence has fabricated and parceled into a
deluxe gift. And as if by a magical lobby, easily fascinated Christian brothers
and sisters who peradventure might have been unlucky to have presented
themselves around the scorching magnetic fields of these products, accepts to
surrender their mortal fleshes to them with no questions or with negligible
resistance. We are trying to decode the word “sting”. Isn’t it? By comparism,
additions and deductions, a critical look will reveal that the violent films
popularly unveiling their frightening synonyms such as “war films” are just
real brutal tools that are used by self to deconstruct one’s own virtues; and
we know an attempt to destroy oneself is a crime known as suicide. We opened
this concept by dividing through the main objective characters that made
civilization comparable to the “bee”. Recapping them, we were first of all
grateful to civilization for “opening the eyes of humans to delete ignorance”. Likewise
by concern, on the same platform, we went straight to frown on civilization for
“closing the minds of human preys against knowing where they are being led to”.
Yes, the sense deficient and unreasonably entertaining movies unquestionably have
created tall ramps or should we say mountains, on the paths that the legs of
our souls tread to victorious eternity. Then can’t we describe civilization as literal
Trojan horses? Yes. This will be fitting since the projects aligned by
civilization seemed to be ordinary, but have hidden intensions behind the
plateau of understanding of mundane souls. Practical analysis will unveil the
fact that there is a great irony lying in the loose bosoms of these brutes. The
irony is that, they are consuming poisons by their mouths, and it consumes them
by their souls; meanwhile in their minds, they are swallowing a delicious
delicacy. Blinded indeed!
We have not yet touched
on the other brutal versions of these man-made audiovisual products as started
above. However, the final, but one out of the numberless brands of these
destructive equipments our panel is yet to screen is found in the pornographic
enterprise. Guess; from a glossy screen of a civilized man-made electrical
appliance, stairs at you a woman, either fractionally nude or totally naked and
is seductively displaying, perfectly excusing God’s laws of morality right in
front of you. What will come into your mind? This product, is it not more than
a prepared fist, ready to box one’s creator? Or let’s say it could be a set of
demolishing gadgets set to bring down God’s temple. I believe it’s not only in
the electronic media do we feel the harmful scorching of such dreadful
presentations, but also in the print media where their intensions are
transmitted through pornographic pictures, messages and a lot more. The last
straw to have the camel’s back in pieces is the fact that these filthy
ideations are being distributed in bits for no expensive charges. A boy or a
girl below my age can just fetch legions of them from the internet where they
flow like oceans at his or her convenient time, on a convenient storage device,
and once at a leisure time, have a full share of its venom. Computers of
various capacities, televisions of various brands and their accomplices have
now swayed people from the road linking here and above. You know why? Just
answer this; if a 90 minutes football match plus extra injury time could make a
patronizing human emotionally and hilariously glued to the TV set, while a 3
minutes entry into prayer induces sleep, how do we call that TV? A graceful saviour,
or a deliberate killer? If a person can make a list of heroes of football both
living and dead, but cannot describe the role that one Biblical hero played, do
we call that game a grace or a danger? This is the ‘bitter sting’ we are saying
the ‘sweet honey’ producing bee is carrying.
Still on the emphasis
on the stings of civilization. Let’s screen another set of conspicuous sting in
mother civilization which is the arrival of human rights and freedoms. There we
know we still have to put hands together for civilization in that it has to an
extent enlightened the society to give away the parlous canker of primitivity.
Unfair human practices such as female genital mutilation, child labour are done
away with and positive time-table on humanitarianism has replaced the former.
Despite these laurels, we can’t be mute to voice this fact that even the rights
and freedoms are hybrids of two contradicting species. Let’s judge it from
these spectacles; because of the existence of the right and freedoms, today’s
little ones can easily do a formerly unaccepted thing in a modernly accepted
way. A child can get the guts to fearlessly inform the Christian parents he has
his right to religion. Foreign countries have more to say. It happened where an
adolescent sued her mother who did not want to spoil her daughter, by sparing
the rod. A caring mother saw herself locked behind bars, not permitted to be
bailed just because she had the thought of a disciplinarian. You ask why? And you
get the answer “human right”. “Right”? How can a “right” make a biblical saying
“wrong”? Meanwhile, mother was just trying to prevent daughter from the
horrible consequences of pornographic films, which is another vice orchestrated
by civilization. Can you now listen to what civilization is saying here? It
says you have the “rights” to do a “wrong” and if an “innocent” person corrects
you, he or she becomes “guilty”.
Civilization has
blinded the eyes of humans. Even the pairs of eyes that see cannot see what they
think they are seeing. Brethren, if as a living being, you know very well the
health hazards of smoking, having it clearly spelt on the packet of a
cigarette, yet you sell it in your store to customers, can you prove yourself
by telling me that you are not blind? In the same way, it you can read this
health caution against these products, understanding what it implies and yet
you purchase it for consumption, who do you think you are? A blind man of
course! So here a blind and a blind are transacting business together and you
know what it results into if a blind is leading a blind. God’s principles are
against alcoholism not only for holiness sake, but for human anatomical
tolerance also. But what do we see? Civilization will not let you call it
alcohol, rather “alcoholic beverage” which means it has been diluted with a
percentage of a not-forbidden liquid. So, we are meeting another reason why we
should refer to civilization as a “Trojan horse”; it encourages you to eat
poisons that you think are delicious meals. So you see, civilization has
partially accepted the concept of smoking and drinking, while God is not
interested in both.
Criminal abortion is no
longer a sin in the faces of today’s civilized youth, all in the crafty name of
civilization. Marriage which supposed to have been a permanent and God oriented
union has now metamorphosized into an “on trial” contract where the shareholding
contractors can choose to vacate for a time or for good. The young have also
recklessly turned into defining marriage in mishandled and misinterpreted way
and soon grow to have limping marriages. Now, a man can marry a man, woman marrying
a woman and nothing is seen to be wrong with it. Cyber modifications also
proved themselves by suggesting ways they thought good for people to make their
marital choices. All these made the whole setting of the geographical earth
crust to appear horribly different from how it was few minutes post creatively.
Civilization has constructed
a perpetually unending race among the living society in quest of making them
satisfy their thirst for material and “moth- eaten” treasures. It also has an
ideation of demolishing the thoughts of divine benefits, divine purpose of
creations by substituting them with the scientific discoveries on evolution
which wrestles to win this recognition that human beings unlike the bible said
were not created but evolved. Another area where civilization agrees to
disagree the power and authority of God comes into play when those so called scientific
laws refuse to enable one to believe the areas where God exploited his
supernatural powers to disprove natural laws. A head-to-toe scientist would
ridicule the fact that “Christ walked on water”. Thomas Cardyle saw this state
of disbelief of the world and said; “if Jesus were to come today, people would
not even crucify Him. They would ask Him to dinner and hear what He has to say
and make fun of it”. It’s true because to the “civilized brains”, God’s laws
are insignificant and archaic since we are in a new world.
The ugly one here is
that, by the decisive crafts of civilized thoughts, wickedness is on the
ascendance. The guns, bombs and other missiles are not things we can’t say are
not product produced and advertised by civilization. Wickedness is
proliferating daily all because man have a close access to things that can kill
and destroy. The effort of the all-day industrious civilization have led to
decorated or ornamental recreational activities that stairs as glittering
spikes of luxury and lust, thereby “closing the minds” of living humans behind
the thoughts of the question “where am I being led to”? Now that the “mental
luxury” of grand civilization has converted its tasteless intensions into
chocolate-filled lyrics, the high-life and low-life, cools or hots, what can a
brute do than to rush for them? The great irony behind this ignorance is that
although these monotonous musical rhythms tickle its patronizers to feelings of
excitements, day in day out, it points its dirty fingers with pride accusingly
into the face of its maker. You can even judge this yourself with biblical
assumptions. Bible states clearly, God deserved to be praised. God himself out-listed
a command of praise with musical orientation to him from the very pots He has
modeled. He explicitly stressed, He is a jealous God. If a modeled creature of
His will then offer a non-sensible music to please who or whatever he or she
thinks he or she seems to know, will there not be a cause for jealousy from the
great creator? This is rightly the reason why a worldly music, both local and
foreign points it dirty warning fingers into the eyes of God with vile
accusations. Believe this or not, where there is singing and dancing on those
songs, God is not and cannot be there! It’s a bit bitter to understand but am
sorry you have to take it like that and adjust.
Before we use this
moment to accept the already passed judgment for the dilemma that civilization
could be a “metaphorical bee”, lets without biasness endorse the fact that
though these easily identifiable evidences decode by this concept, there are
more known and more yet-to-be-discovered proofs that should awaken us to believe
that despite the deluxe edifices of vitality constructed by civilization, it
still have parlous estate predisposing humans to eternal doom.
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