Questioning The Motif



A motif is a symbol, that represents an idea a statement or a philosophy. Like the German swastika and the heart shape both motifs are motifs of the Nazi party and love respectively, both are peddled by man from one generation to the next as maxims, some without questions, some to the point of destruction. Without caution, caution the thrust of our exegesis, for if motif could be peddled as form, situations, coping mechanism and life expectancies and achievements to showcase, define and place, We at the saturated precipice of the bludgeoning of man, must question that which cogs his wheels, keeps him going as Ask “Imitation monkey, are you of the things you are imitating?”
For the Christians, Protestantism imbues in them according to Weber the notion of the “calling”, infusing them with paticularism telling them to go and possess their possession, from pupa to larva,it grew from mere Calvinist snob to the motif postulated in paint as the Gainsborough painting of Mr and Mrs Andrews, inoculating capitalist success as Christian blessing,(40 acres and a mule).As God is your father and you are to possess your possession and the Muslim amidst haloed hedonism cap it off with going to Mecca for Hajj to become Alhaji.
When do you question these haloed wants and greed of ours? When can it be said that God have blessed you enough, when is it just mere greed, avarice and sleaze.
The motif times 3 billion people on earth(just under half of the world population) means no one will be able to own property except Christians. If the bible apportions 70 years to live, your ego is only as big as you allow it to be. People once saddled with the idea of achieving for themselves get deflated completely when life takes their arm or leg from them. A definitive disease like cancer reduces their want to just staying alive, so why not reduce it now? now that we are complete sane enough to allow our bones rest instead of breaking them in futility. Why not question the motifs driving you mad, making you beggared, sad and unable to see this paradise under your feet.
Until a man is truly educated he will duplicate the learned stupidity to another and the reification of the madness of the mind will afford whoever the necessary self righteousness gotten intrinsically as pontification to do so and more.
So the problem is the motif, for 80 billion of us is just manure, we can’t hurt the planet and it’s ecosystem hurdled naked under trees, stoned in perpetual cunnilingus, but our activity have brought us here and It must be questioned.
Who braves them? People. Let them question it, if they can’t be wiped out.
 
If only two people existed in Nigeria they will each get their motif (either Christian or Muslim) and in a landmass like Nigeria’s there would be no problem, if only two people existed they would never even meet. But when you have 200 million people chasing after the same smoke, without caution, without consideration or moderation, what you have are bullets firing at each other, Pure atavistic convolutedness - chaos.
Challenge their toil and agony and find them pained not because they have seen the environmental cost of their motif and but because you are attacking their inalienable right from god for them to pillage, possess their possession, if it means the death of rain forest, extinction of animals, destruction of wildlife and sea life.
The motif is the major cause of this hyper inflation as many of the wares are organic and the price of goods remain commensurate with the price of the want. A woman selling sweet will want to make 2 million naira from sweet of 2 thousand naira and will do anything not for mere sustenance but for a motif. ( a house and a car)
A man will marry 4 wives and have 5 children by each so as to avoid cheating anyone even praising his fair and logical thinking will have from just him alone a total of 20 children not for the want of children in the motherless babies home or dearth in population but for a motif. Have he questioned this motif? who started this thing I brave, why can’t I question and out-think it, and is it still applicable in today’s world?.
We question the motif by asking the man gearing up to build the third house, that why are you trying to build a new house you already possessed your possession with the first and the other extra on the side, why not build a sport center or park for children in cities or even water in communities in the village if that is expensive, why not a library, health centre with that same money.Most times after the usual greedy replies, they might ask what of my children do you want them to suffer?
Oh yes, children we want to take our children to automatic wealth by sacrificing our lives for their own, forgetting that there have to be a balance between toiling and living a good life. What make you think you will live long? You might abnegate your life for children that might not be worth it (Nobody is worth it). And for the struggle, what makes you think your children will not sell the land, property and the “wealth” you spent all of your life acquiring buying drinks in a night club, battling an illness, a drug problem or settling the debt of a expensive lifestyle. F or the suffering of the father can never be transmitted to the child telepathically. So as long as you have suffered and sacrificed, your child will definitely have a molly-cuddled life and the suffering you went through will mean nothing to him no matter hows much you try to explain or make him understand.So why try?
Instead of children why not child, the believe in having two or more stems from the instinct of incase one dies another must inherit. what if the other also dies or they together and at once the children in an airplane crash at one time in Nigeria, What do you do to  all your motif, When the essence of its gone it’s really not in your hands.What of their own lot they may even be wealthier than you, if God provides for us all.So leave the children out of it
Even if, the protestant thinking which stipulates delayed gratification of which I am equally a victim, one must still draw moderation and question our motifs for the sake of others.
 Bludgeoning in Nigeria our youths saddled with Marslows’s hierarchy of needs look for in vain for anyplace where they can hang their triangle and call it roofing, but they can’t find it anymore than we can’t find an end to our motifs.
Haven’t we possessed more than we ought to , leaving others quite stranded as landlord and owners of properties, forgetting that we are equally all tenants in life and nothing can stay glued to our palm, nothing not even  glue.
We own nothing and are but mere funnels
People volatile and package in sentries, brave these motifs with a conspired chuck on our education which leaves no character to our person, have to be reduced if they life unto want.
The reduction must also be in the want, as much as the people, educating them in the importance of thrift, minimalist living and the true value of thing which reduces the dependence on their motifs, make useless their maxims and toil, and gets a sustainability going.
People, mendicant from being unable to question their motifs go as far as collecting loans from banks, sharks and the other plethoras of lies, telling us to “get and spend”
Without asking the most important question “WHY?”
I’m all about enjoying oneself but not at the expense of being mendicant all for a motif The thinking of a dead man There are always cheap replicas for every form of paradise,if only you open your eyes to see. Many who brave the motif of car ownership, expensive clothing, big house  latest phones,plenty wives, doing this without question, are saddled with it’s economic burden and wonder why god is so unfair to them, not asking if they are even fair with themselves, and the heaven helping them. So How do you question your motif?
 
We do so by travelling, watching movies and documentaries using them to compare our reality and with a little minimalist, ascetic and cautious and slow approach to living, are intimated with the intentionality of every action, it’s true cost and consequence and find calm where they say there is none.
 
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