THE RIGHT MINDED

Why Logic and Why realism

To consider why a person would prefer logic and realistic thoughts over pretty idealistic and positive thoughts we have to look at our own personal experience on small scale as well as a holistic look at a nations inkling to thoughts of left and right.

Of course a person would be more inclined to harbour positive thoughts than negative thoughts and assumptions, because, as most of us have experienced, your happiness is linked with your thoughts. Thus the more positive your thoughts the more positive your life seems to be. So a person, if he can afford it, would rather see the better side of things instead of the bad negative things. I say ‘afford it’ because a person who hasn’t eaten for 4 days and does not seem to have any tangible evidence of getting food anytime soon cannot ‘afford’ to believe every little thing’s going be alright. He must grasp the reality of the situation for him to be able to know what needs to be done and do it. Whilst a well fed person with a pantry full of food is much more inclined to believe that every little thing’s going be alright.

Therefore even in this small example, a positive mind-set and positive opinion is directly linked to the prosperity and security of a person. It’s easy to tell the hungry person, every little thing’s going be alright if you are not the hungry person.  Therefore it is easy for a Frenchman living in a grand flat on the Riviera to only assume the very best of every black person in Africa and demand the white man in Africa treats every black man as his equal and as good. But if he were to move with his family on a farm bordering the township Mamelody he would be much more inclined to now harbour realistic thoughts, because now his life and the life of his family depends on it.

For example, he will quickly learn of the practical and efficient application of generalizing. Regardless of the occasional black person he might every now and then offend because he first assumed him dangerous before knowing him. He wouldn’t care, because as Benjamin Ntananyau once put it. “The security of my people is more important than my popularity.” But for the Frenchman in is flat on the Riviera, his popularity is much more important than the security of other people.

And so the public opinion in South Africa in the 1980’s and 1990’s was created by comfortable well-meaning foreigners. They were so far removed from the issue that they created their staunch support for the struggle in South Africa of the blacks believing all blacks were like Denzel Washington, Oprah and Nelson Mandela.

Then why did the majority of whites in South Africa agree to the abolishment of apartheid and gaining a typical African government? Regardless of having over 30 failed African states as evidence of the horrid outcome of democratically elected tyrants in all other African governments?

Because of the prosperity that apartheid had afforded the whites in South Africa. Because of how far removed they were of real Africa. They had full stomachs and full pantries so to speak. Then their positive mind-set was bombarded with idealistic visions of a pretty future with the same-as-me African. Hook, line, sinker.

Back to the point: What determines a person’s mind-set? Thus idealistic pretty thoughts are nurtured and created by prosperity and security. The best modern example of this being the newly elected far-right political party FN (Front National) party in France with Marine La Pen. As the immigration problem in France increased with more and more immigrants from Arabic and African countries the problem was becoming much closer to home. The Frenchman in his flat on the Riviera no longer needed to move to South Africa to develop a realistic and logic mind-set as his security, thus the security of his prosperity, is now clearly under threat, and he can no longer ‘afford’ to have a pretty idealistic mind-set. So he resorts to the FN. But alas, for them it is also too late. There will be no turning back the tide now. But if they have listened to the unpopular few who so accurately described the consequences of slack immigration policies, they would not have had the problem.

And so the West is doomed to realize the truth only when it is too late. Because they ignore a tumour too long, and now, the treatment required to cure it would likely kill the host. War.