LAGOS LIFE: JUST A SIMULATION OR ANOTHER MASSIVE DISTRACTION SCHEME?

We have spent months complaining about insecurity, bad products, food safety, corruption, economic pressure, the future of the country, and what kind of Nigeria we're handing to the next generation.Then suddenly, here comes a simulation of Lagos life, and an enormous chunk of everybody's attention goes straight into their phones. No seriouslyThink about it The Nigerian youth have already been called lazy and unfit and this game has proven just that. Total wrong timing Just months or weeks ago the same Nigerian youth were complaining about insecurity, fake products and foods everywhere and today?Today they're distracted with their phonesEverybody posting updates on their Snapchats and WhatsApp statuses about Lagos life Look I'm not saying it's badBut again, wrong timing.Now's not the time to be caught in a simulationNow's the time to stand up for the future of our nationWe're already so cooked The same people who say "Nigeria is killing us" open their Snapchat only three minutes after their lamentations just to show us their mansion in Lagos life. Sure we can bury our excuses behind the money that comes from itYou have access to other people's money and you're happy?That's it??I really don't get it. I see us like cats chasing laser dotsOne minute we're demanding justice.Begging so passionately for the release of those in captivityNext minute we're decorating our Lagos Life houses.Laser dot.Laser dot.Laser dot. What will we leave behind for the coming generation?They're literally becoming worse than us alreadyAnd now this?Their big brothers and sisters and aunties and uncles and dads and moms are carried away dillydallying on their glowing rectangles. We say "if it weren't for these things we'd die of depression in this country"Seriously?!Seriously??!! Maybe those potbellied old men in the red velvet chairs of political rooms are not entirely wrong about usMaybe we're really unreadyUnfit! We complain so much about the nation yet there's nobody stepping up It's like constantly complaining about a headache without reaching for the solution What is wrong with us?What is really wrong with us?? I only have one important question on my mind Why now?! And tell me.... Is Lagos life really just a harmless simulation, or is it just another massive distraction scheme?!

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