Silence and Propaganda


The positive changes the world had ever felt in politics, sciences, literature etc. and those that are being enjoyed by millions of people all over the world are results of significant intellectual efforts.
President Trump and President Xi Jinping
How programming codes for software developments and hardware controls were conceived and brought to reality enjoyed productive silence too. But for those who fall into the opposite category, they make more noise. Practically, noisemakers in politics are inherently insecure and become under achievers. Even with so much noise made by Adolf Hitler and other allies of his, Germany collapsed and it was rebuilt through the hard work of intellectually determined people. Ironically, the names and efforts of most of them are not accounted for by books of history. They were not recognized because they were never in positions of political or military authority.
Don't wonder much. The globally known example of a noisemaker in the world today is in the White House. Supposedly, you know the referent to whom “he” refers in the next sentence. Arguably, he is the weakest president in the globe. He appoints individuals into the administration he leads during a one-to-one discussion. But when it is time to end such appointments, he builds the wall of Twitter around himself. He hires physically and fire senior members of staff on Twitter. Is fear accountable for such?

Though the President of China, Xi Jinping, may be or may not be a dictator (let the final judgment be yours), he is not a noisemaker. Without being told or having sleepless nights on Twitter, he knows that China is the biggest economy in the globe. This is valid as long as economic gigantism is connected to indices like: (1) number of consumers in a state and (2) positive trend of the purchasing power of a national currency.

In order to differentiate intellectualism from propagandist presidency Xi remains quiet as the secretary general and chairman of the Communist Party of China as the man in the White House continues to create storms in a tea cup. After waiting for two years, Trump’s War against China was simply answered by President Xi who states:

“Thinking that one's own race and culture are superior, and insisting on transforming or even replacing other civilisations, is stupid in its understanding and disastrous in practice.”

Who is *stupid* in this context? Which culture is acclaimed to be superior?


Akinlolú-Prime Samuelo

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