At least
now no one can argue the natural law of cause and effect: that what we
are now is a sum of all the causes of our past, and that same can be said of
our future. A higher fact of this
natural truth will be that we are living the future now, or in other words,
currently we are shaping the form of the future we shall have.
When we talk about the future of a
nation like Ghana, I want to bring to your attention an element of culture
called meme. Meme is an idea,
behavior, or style that spreads from one generation to another within a
culture. So meme, in this way,
suggest that a way of behavior or a way of thinking of a particular people
group (as in a cultural group like Ghana) does not change over time, but rather
modernizes to suit the time frame.
So the future of the country, according to the
nature of meme, is that we are going to pass onto the future generation all the
unscrupulous, wicked and immoral practices we have now. Could you imagine? Could the President
imagine the future reflecting the shortcomings of today? Could the Ministers and the Public Servants
imagine the future leaders of the nation embezzlement the assets and wealth of
the nation? Could the economist imagine
the state of the state’s future economy? Could the politician imagine how lousy
and canning their future replicas would be just for the sake of luring power?
Could the general public imagine how much costly it would be for the
forthcoming nation to make here a secure and healthy place to be? Could we
imagine the story we will tell about our resources (like the oil and gas
resource) and assets today?
We could be in crisis today because of our past
but the future is also being determined today and if we don’t have any interest
in the life of the nation in the future, we are not qualified to live in the
present. Be the change you want to see in the future now.
Columnist: Elvis Owusu Dankyi
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