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Writewithoma
Fiction Author || Autofiction writer || Freelance writer || Content Creator @ National open university of Nigeria
Fiction Author || Autofiction writer || Freelance writer || Content Creator @ National open university of Nigeria
When the Punchline Writes the Policy Report
<p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>There's a meme going around with a quote that probably never left anyone's mouth something about giving Nigerians eyeglasses "because they have eye problems" if they can't see all the good the government has done. It's satire. Everyone sharing it knows it's satire.</p><p><br/></p><p>And yet.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p> <strong>1.</strong>The joke works because it's plausible.</p><p><br/></p><p>That's the real punchline. Nobody had to stretch far to make this believable. A country where citizens are routinely told their perception is the problem that inflation "isn't that bad," that fuel subsidy removal was "necessary sacrifice," that the economy is "on the path to recovery" doesn't need much satirical exaggeration. The meme isn't inventing a tone. It's compressing one that's already familiar.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p> 2. "You just can't see it" is a real governing strategy, memes aside.</p><p>Strip the joke down and what's left is an actual pattern: when results don't match the rhetoric, the gap gets explained as a perception problem, not a performance problem. Citizens aren't struggling they're just not appreciating the struggle correctly. That's not a punchline. That's messaging.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p> 3. The eyeglasses joke lands because glasses fix nothing structural.</p><p><br/></p><p>Better vision doesn't change what's actually in front of you. That's exactly why it's such a sharp joke it mimics a government solving optics instead of outcomes. Fix how something looks, not what it is.</p><p><br/></p><p>But if clearly we need glasses to see what they truly claim to have done, then they need glasses too. Because they don't know where or what they really mean to do if that's all there is to show for it.</p><p><br/></p><p>The joke was never really about eyeglasses. It was always about who's actually failing to see.</p><p><br/></p>
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