Intellectualism, allows us to research before we argue, argue on substance and experiment on the possible available and improve the visible. After claiming modernism, revolutions allow us to express our instincts within a society even though others become subjective due to this. Since there was never any successful society that never underwent a revolution, we must analyse well our socializations before any revolution. For many Gambians, instead of seeing The Gambia as a nurturing mother, we tend to see it as a resource that must be exploited without limits.
What is self-inflicted is arguable base on what is understood about a society’s culture. Culture is the lenses of perception, the approach to the reality and the ignorance of a people. When a child is defined incapable or capable, it holds to which culture she comes from. When a family is deemed prestigious, it is not just a matter of endeavour, it has its strong hold in its history. The Gambian society is a self-inflicted complex structure of failure.
When a culture is morally based rather than materially inclined, hopes for equality could easily be assumed. However, if a people are blind to what they think is the right approach, solutions are highly unreachable and problems become predominant. Morally here, is meant to be what is fair and justifiable within a culture of morally equal people. Assuming that Gambian people are far separated from each other and now in a tense competition against one another is a threat to the culture of a people. This new culture is not only foreign but also unfair. Competition for any developing society is not that bad, however, it must keep the morals of that society. At this point, we must ask ourselves whether the new culture of competition which condemned the less privileged majority below the poverty level is evil. One does not need to spend a year of research to find that answer. It is there very transparent. Our society is one where the foreign culture allows the best fruits into the stomach of those who struggle a little and compelled the watering of that plant by those who will not eat the fruits.
The majority of The Gambians sleep dreaming for a strength to better their future but the next morning institutions decay their morale. Slavery is not a foreign culture to The Gambia.the transatlantic slave trade has met many Gambians enslaved by their own institutions where one’s family defines his entire life. Though I aimed not to compare transatlantic slavery to that of the already existing local slave culture, what I want to discuss here is, the mentality behind the two. The former was foreign and aimed to improve the challenges of a modern society. That is to be able to produce more than what the market needs at the expense of the majority and in short, that is the main stance of capitalism. Meanwhile, when we turn our moral lenses to our own slavery that was in existence countrywide, and still prevalent in many parts, one is made to know the genesis of our history, our own self-inflicted decadence and why we face what we face today. Though local slave markets were never destined to boost the capitalists market but it was created to help keep the few at the helms of power. Children born to a slave, continue to be slaves for the rest of their lives with a subjective and unequal role to play in the development of the upper class. A master will be a master for the rest of his life and his family enjoys the fruits of their workers who are the slaves. A slave has a special relationship and a role to play among which is never to doubt the master. The master is not under any moral obligation to consult the slave in any decision making even where the life of the slave is at stake. There cannot be any intimate relationship between the slave and the master. The rewards of a slave belong to the master. Materialism was not new even by then. The more slaves a master has at the farm defines his wealth. These slaves were given food to keep them strong on the farm. Their mental capabilities were subjugated and could never dream to challenge their masters.
Both the former and the later forms of slavery were meant out of the selfish evil desire for competition and the betterment of oneself against the other. Both were evil exploit many. I can still see local slavery in many forms even if they are not that typical as short. From our political, social and economic spheres, we continue to create institutions that will enslave and exploit the majority.
Antislavery, was a fundamental shift from the old culture to a new legitimated evil dogma of market slavery. Even our social hierarchies are deliberately crafted according to the dictates of the market. The supply of goods and services is a strong economic principle which only a stupid market will fail to observe. Where survival becomes a competition, the strongest is bound by conditions to exploit the weak for their own survival. I am not legitimising this paradigm, in fact, I am critiquing it.
My parlance on The Gambian society here is focused on why we are failing. Our rigor, logic, and coherence are until now cloudy with feeble signs of success. Many times I am forced to doubt my own potentials, which most probably has had its foundations from my own culture. The culture of who the cap fits wears it. The culture that I try to suggest a solution to continues to mimic the failure of unborn people.
Inequality is not only painful but also against nature. Though I am not arguing from a theological point of view, however, any struggle to dominate nature is evil and only creates more difficulties for the underprivileged majority. Our institutions (in the broadest terms of the word) must not torture other souls, instead, they should be more natural and promote equality or at least uplift the least privileged.
The destructive mechanistic paradigm in The Gambia is one that seek to dominate nature by exploiting the innocent poor and weak to serve the gods of the capitalists markets.
Many Gambians did not know, or, at least, do not know that they know. The most exacerbating forms of is when you do not know that you are in fact being humiliated. Instead of seeing The Gambia as a nurturing mother, we tend to see it as a resource to be exploited without limits!
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