ON a global scale looking beyond our personal lives, where indeed, things have literally fallen apart to the extent of hopelessness leading to para suicide , suicide , murder and destruction of life as we see on mass media on a daily basis . Man rising against man. Son against father and leaders against the people. Morally corrupt generations that now calls , natural , un natural acts against nature…eish..wars and rumours of wars and epidemics of a devastating nature not seen before and more…
Yes, ” THINGS FALL APART…THE CENTRE CAN NO LONGER HOLD! “
What must we do then?
Apparently much education n technology has not addressed our moral and spiritual decadence and am afraid it has made things worse as information is shared at lightning speed across the globe without any mitigation whatsoever. Young minds are now consuming adult information hence adulterating their mindset before their characters are properly formed!
THINGS FALL APART in a world where it’s, ” EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD FOR US ALL !”
Let’s go back to FACTORY RESET
and find our way out again!
Let’s recapture the societal bonds that bind communities and family reunions that protect the nuclear and extended family..stop and think about these simple steps. Let’s talk to one another as we used to. Let’s love and accommodate one another and tolerate yes tolerate! Let’s find ourselves once more and anchor our lives in family cohesion. Let’s retrace our Godly ways and find our reason to live….FAILURE TO THIS WILL MANIFEST…in a world that is falling apart as sung by Isaac Hayes!
Cheers n a good day as you find yourself!
W. B. Yeats
1865 –1939
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Chinua Achebe lifted his famous quote, ” THINGS FALL APART …” from this great quote about the second Coming…by Yeats…
Isn’t it amazing!
And true to this great poem…things are spiralling downwards, globally , as socio cultural economic and geopolitics come tumbling down..we have become ,a ” man eat man ” society with zero moral obligations towards humanity..yes indeed , ” things fall apart !”