CONVERSATION IN 2097!

MARK: Oh man, have you read the history book by Pius Adesanmi, "The Real Story of Nigeria"?

JOHN: Yes buddy I did. Man, I cannot believe many of the things there.

MARK: Same here. How could people have believed that the same group of politicians who created their problems will solve them?

JOHN: Not just that, I really cannot believe that there were Buharist who actually believed that man was really fighting corruption in an age where there were abundant information and all the corrupt people were evidently walking free, many of them working in his government.

MARK: Those guys were really in the stone age. And the group of people called Atikulators, did they have a moral compass at all? How did arrive at such conclusions when evidently they had thrown away their logic bars even before they started considering their options? It's just like saying, I've closed my eyes, I will walk into the gutter but when I get to the end, I will open it in order to choose the best way to lie down. Oh man, that's all steps to being radically dirty.

JOHN: And Oh man, I've really been thinking about how sane people survived those years. How was it like to be a normal, logical and rational thinking person in that kind of atmosphere?

MARK: It must really have been hard. How does one survive in a culture where being right is ridiculed and being wrong is praised and glorified?

JOHN: I'm grateful I didn't live during those days, I would have ended up in the asylum.

MARK: (Laughing) Well, as I see it, all the country was an asylum. Everybody was sick. They were all sick, you can't survive that level of madness. Can you imagine living in a world without constant power? A world where educated people throw out dirt through their plane windows? A country where a car with a seat for two people carried four, yet they prayed for Gods protection. A country where people passed their faeces on stones yet complained of being sick. A country where excellence is ridiculed, tribalism hailed and the least qualified are sent to be the best offices? They voted their politicians based on religion or tribe, nothing more. I read that they spent less on education, encouraged and supported their President to travel abroad and defended their President whenever they missed debates. Man, that was a world for mad people!

JOHN: Honestly Mark, if not for this book I am reading, I would never have believed that such people exist. Such ignorance, delusion, and nothingness. Such an ugly past!

MARK: Well, John, I think we are privileged to be a generation after that! May we make the labor of our heroes never be in vain.