Olodo Uprising: Are We rewarding ignorance or Authenticity
<p>Olodo uprising: Are We rewarding ignorance or<span style="background-color: transparent;"> Authenticity. Let me give the definition of</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> olodo :An olodo is a word being used to describe.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">someone who is not intelligent and it does not </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">mean whether you are educated or not. The "Olodo Uprising" is a viral cultural debate</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> sparked by Nigerian rapper Y Cee. It questions</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> whether society now rewards unpolished, low-brow virality over education and intellect.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Choosing to support ignorance as "authenticity" romanticizes a dangerous lack of critical thinking, which ultimately hurts national development and <a class="tc-blue" href="https://problem-solving.Let" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">problem-solving.Let </a> me also back up my point with this idiom an Empty vessel is a person with no knowledge or <a class="tc-blue" href="https://substance.With" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">substance.With </a> the life of peller who can not speak English fluently we are facing ignorance in the <a class="tc-blue" href="https://society.The" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">society.The </a> way we are upholding ignorance is that some people don't go out again to work they can just start doing online job e.g people who are doing yahoo it is not that they is no job but it is because they are ignorant some of them even go further to back people's account and in Nigeria that is what leads to corruption in the society or <a class="tc-blue" href="https://nation.They" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">nation.They </a> are also looking for alternative to make money because the government has failed,the government also refuse to construct road it also give them means of reckless <a class="tc-blue" href="https://driving.The" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">driving.The </a> intellectual potent of youth in Nigeria is very very low that is why we are worried that they may not be able to relate to intelligent content someone like Layi wasabi he does a lot of funny content but those contents are highly intelligent,he does things that someone who is absolutely tomfully. It is like we try so much to tolerate unintelligence people treat them with love so they will not feel bad majority of the society are not supporting academic excellence now people say yahoo <a class="tc-blue" href="https://culture.In" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">culture.In </a> other words of Chimmamanda Ngozi Adiche Nigeria's are very in materialistic so what so anytime you check someone status you worship money the way we worship <a class="tc-blue" href="https://God.Why" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">God.Why </a> is vile entertainment now more valuable than substance that is a valid question this is What Tosin eniolorunda when he spoke About Nigeria not having talent .it is essentially the same thing that <a class="tc-blue" href="https://K.cee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">K.cee </a> is alluding to the human capital but people are not longer interested in the value that produce long term <a class="tc-blue" href="https://results.They" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">results.They </a> want short gains they want to be uninformed and rich, They also want to best when they are not being educated because the cost of information time discipline matters mostBut then we must solve the country problem now most of the content creator are ruling the world and most of those artist .Now they are younger generations looking forward to what will add them money or bring them sources of income but now when they go to school it teaches them that ignorance is not good and it is not supported which is going to spell a serious doing some of the youth we have today don't know anything about inventions and innovations we follow more trends that"school na scam" everyday we have less people who want to aspire to be a professor or how many young people want to study law or medicine they will think that is a long <a class="tc-blue" href="https://cut.So" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">cut.So </a> people who go into things like creating contentNigeria cannot build a globally competitive economy on shallow expertise. Artificial intelligence cannot be developed by people who have never studied mathematics, data management or computer science in <a class="tc-blue" href="https://depth.Modern" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">depth.Modern </a> manufacturing cannot thrive without engineers who understand engineering beyond PowerPoint <a class="tc-blue" href="https://presentations.Healthcare" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">presentations.Healthcare </a> cannot improve through motivational speeches. Public policy cannot be transformed through hashtags. Innovation is built upon disciplined knowledge accumulated over many <a class="tc-blue" href="https://years.The" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">years.The </a> world’s most successful nations reward mastery. Nigeria increasingly rewards visibility. That imbalance carries <a class="tc-blue" href="https://consequences.Yes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">consequences.Yes </a> we know the problem now become visible that is not a <a class="tc-blue" href="https://problem.The" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">problem.The </a> reason why people are not concerned is because they want to make money but it is actually wrong it will lead us to a problem in the nearest generation because we will have society where we want to I no ate build good status because they is nothing there to do with .Let me get a reference they was a case where the CEO cried about 500 Nigeria people can't win .The statistics references shows us that they are psychological studies publishers which engage in ignorance we are noticing that 40% people choose to remain willfully ignorant of the consequence of the action they <a class="tc-blue" href="https://take.They" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">take.They </a> know enough to sound convincing but rarely enough to solve difficult <a class="tc-blue" href="https://problems.In" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">problems.In </a> a recent Inspire Africa Series, Atedo Peterside made the point about ‘dilettantism’ – contrast with his ten years Merchant banking experience, exposure and education before founding the Investment Banking and Trust Company Limited (IBTCThe systematic misconception in global survey testing basic word development and social facts 15% of respondents answered every single question wrong performing worse than random selection of a <a class="tc-blue" href="https://monkey.Some" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">monkey.Some </a> of them don't want to make themselves figures that are important and some of them could work in corporate places but they is no insensitive for that but I feel like that is a problem now that government as made our society like this the solution is not like to endowed and appreciate proud olodo's in the society and give them as of the endowed thing that can be,but is a world where we also reward intelligent people and other <a class="tc-blue" href="https://conversation.As" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">conversation.As </a> we are,we need to demarkert the olodo's uprising and make people see further there know how may clown did we have?But in the nearest future we could only have to plan in the market .It will get to a stage where the Olodo could have finished all the content but one thing that will give us access in the nearest future a world where we have people who are investing in education and Demarketing <a class="tc-blue" href="https://ignorance.If" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ignorance.If </a> you check most of these guys they make you look stupid,nowadays they are some men who graduate with first class because of lack of understanding they start to create content ofr start to defraud people here and <a class="tc-blue" href="https://there.In" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">there.In </a> conclusion I will like us to create a society where intelligence are being celebrated or wanted so if you have a chance use it wisely because Fame without depth is like Celebrating a crown made of paper.</span></p>
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