The Need To Fix An Invented And Inverted World

By: Stephen K. Ainsah-Mensah

The rooting of Western education in many centres of the world has naturally given rise to the growth of the stem, the branches and flowers of the tree of knowledge. That this has led to the flourishing of knowledge while debasing indigenous knowledge cannot be overlooked. Whereas this admixture must have widened the scope of knowledge of the recipients, brought - to them - a more vigorous understanding of the outside world, it has also distorted the compass of human and structural development. What we have seen, time after time, is the deliberate contention by Western encroachers that rhythmic and sophisticated cultures are/were unavailable in the recipients' societies. Such a risky arrogance invents a new wheel of human decorum that turns the natural progress of individual and collective personalities upside down. But encroachers build up superiority intuitions from this enterprise, which, with time, grows into a world-wide scope, diseased in many respects. Thereafter, all sorts of people glorify the encroachers’ values, developments, and strive to be part of it even as the values, the development of encroached cultures are put down for no good reason(s). Global affairs have proceeded largely from this unwarranted human arrangement. It looks as if capacities and talents are being laid waste through this invented and inverted world; yet, we do not, in most cases, seem to care - or fail to care.