THE IGNORANCE WE ENDORSE - by Catalyst ✍️

You know that thing that happens when you open one of your social media app? Ehn ehn, that one. It started like every other evening. I picked up my phone just to "check one or two things." Five minutes became thirty. Thirty became an hour. Before I knew it, I had watched someone become famous for shouting into a camera, another for dancing without rhythm, and another for saying things that did not even make sense. Then I closed the app and asked myself a question that refused to leave my mind. Are we rewarding ignorance or authenticity? We often say, "Just be yourself." It sounds beautiful until "yourself" becomes an excuse to celebrate mediocrity. There is a difference between being authentic and refusing to grow. Authenticity is being real. Ignorance is refusing to learn. Somewhere along the way, we started mixing the two. Today, people laugh more at nonsense than they listen to wisdom. Someone spends weeks researching, writing, editing, and creating something that can change lives. It gets a few likes. Another person turns brings stupidity into entertainment, and the internet crowns them king. We call it content. We call it vibes. We call it cruise. But deep down, what exactly are we rewarding? The scary part is not that these people become popular. The scary part is that many young people are watching. They begin to believe that knowledge is boring and that effort is unnecessary. They see people becoming successful without adding value, and they start asking themselves, "Why should I stress myself reading books when I can trend by doing the opposite?" This is where the Olodo Uprising begins. Not because people do not know, but because society claps louder for what is empty than for what is meaningful. I remember a time in school, I walked into our lectureroom before an exam. There is this student who has spent nights teaching us IPA CHARTS (SOUNDS) we did together. Beside him is another who disturbed us during the night class. Somehow, when the results come out, nobody remembers my friend and I. But when the other person crack a funny joke in class, and everyone knows his name. The one who feeds the mind is forgotten. The one who feeds the moment becomes a celebrity. I am not saying everyone who creates funny content is ignorant. Laughter is important. Entertainment has its place. But when ignorance becomes the fastest road to attention, we should all be worried because that's the Olodo rising. Every like is an endorsement, every share is support and every repost tells the algorithm, "I want more of this." If we continue rewarding empty noise, we should not be surprised when meaningful voices become rare to find. Because,my friend is starting to walk in that path of "rare to find". "So, are we rewarding ignorance or authenticity?" I think the answer depends on you. If authenticity means being true to who you are while still learning, improving, and adding value, then it deserves more than just applause. But if ignorance is dressed up as originality and celebrated simply because it attracts attention, then we are building a generation that values popularity above purpose. The Olodo Uprising is not just about the people who trend. It is about the people (us) who make them trend. The problem is not what they post or what they do, the problem is what we choose to endorse and applaud. Because whatever we celebrate today becomes the standard for tomorrow. Catalyst ✍️

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