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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Alternative modernity
How do we build an alternative modernity....a modernity and future that defies history i.e. that does not follow prevailing historical and economic conditions..

It is a question of how do we rectify history,and put the history of a nation on an alternative trajectory.
The Nazi tried to create an alternative modernity and plunged the world into darkness.

The soviets alternative modernity version plunged the world into 70 years of uncertainty and blood and pain.

The Japanese created an alternative modernity thrice with extraordinary and mixed results.the first during the 16th century when they went through a mood swing and closed their country to the entire world;in the second instance was during their 1930s with their glorified Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere;the third instance was the success of the economic miracle from the 1950s.
There is one thing ,altering historical direction requires monstrous mental and physical effort because history is almost fatalistic,we don't really alter it in the real sense,we just interrupt it for a short while,maybe 50 years,maybe 100 years....but you know what HISTORY HAS ALMOST ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD

3 comments:

esp. said...

Excellent post, but the way I see it, especially from the point of view of a developing country, as well as your view of the idealistic Africa of the future, is that one ought to ultimately disregard history so that he or she, or a collective nation, may live in the present whilst planning for a future that does not consider history as much as it focuses on its goals and aspirations for the future. Modernity is an interesting, relative concept, which, as you said, can certainly be shaped by certain actions, and these actions, whatever they may be in your case, are what is going to change Africa for the better. Good luck, mate.

Annie said...

Hi so I changed browser and I can now make a comment.

Yes, I like the thread "I have a mind of a child...." and this post on Furturistic Africa, when you put them together; it will make a beautiful article.

Kingsley said...

Well well, very nice treatise on changing history. But I always believe that history doesn't flow on unaided, the course is altered by great men whose names litter the annals of history. People make things happen and sometimes they alter history forever.

The transistor, electricity, the airplane and probably computing are developments by a few people which will have an almost timeless effect on history.

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