A subject of recent interesting Youtube videos was African Time. This is explained as why African immigrants tend to be murderous, violent, and destructive, and why Africa itself (sub-Saharan Africa specifically) was mostly mired in poverty and atrocity (Case in point: 1994 Rwanda Genocide and current South Africa).
The concept of African Time was coined from an author named John Mbiti. According to that concept (in the words of the Youtube hosts), time moves backwards, there is no future, and people are the ones who create time only when an event or action happens. As the hosts explain, if there’s no future, then there are no consequences. Thus, many Africans are violent and atrocious because they see no consequence to their actions.
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Another thing is that Africans also tend to be late because they have no concept of measured time. In short. Africa is backward because its denizens’ concept of time is backward! And last, African Time also holds the idea that the glory of Africa is in the past; so if time moves backwards, they can go back to that glory. We have the saying, you can’t turn back time; but Africans believe they can.
Now some people might tell me, I didn’t understand it properly. However, I think the videos I’ve watched, like Sargon of Akkad and Connor Tomlinson, get the basic premise correctly. This is because their source is an actual African woman who explains African Time herself in her own video.
Now, some may notice the similarity of being habitually late between African Time and “Filipino time!” This may lead to the question, what else is similar between the two cultures? I think it is just that both somehow value the rural, primitive, and tribal society. For example, we Filipinos sometimes have an addiction to “katutubo” and nativism, sometimes using it as a form of “oppressed” identity. Some calls for “support local only” can become irrational. But on the other hand, we Filipinos are more time-conscious and embrace modern concepts and philosophies, thanks to Western and some East Asian culture. African culture, rather than staying backward, even wants to go further backward.
Next, the idea that people create time indicates mysticism, similar to the dialectic and other origins of Marxism and wokeness. Mystic ideas are often a product of the primitive and is among the germs of these bad ideas aligned with the Radical Left, including eugenics, transgenderism, seeing the objectively real as constructs, socialism, hive-mind, and more.
Another factor might be the syncretism or one world religion goal of the Parliament of World Religions. It is not farfetched if some bad players are actually helping fund or push acceptance of African Time in Western Societies (through immigration) for “inclusivity” purposes, but it might also for the purpose of overthrowing Western values (I think it’s called the Great Replacement Theory?). However, African Time will certainly clash with Western Time and it won’t lead to a “dialectic synthesis” of ideas. The reality-aligned, pragmatic idea (the Western) will win out.
So, to sum it up: tribalism and primitivism are among the great obstacles keeping both Africa and the Philippines from improving. I wrote before about the Noble Savage idea, which holds the idea going back to a tribal and primitive society will return us to being “pure.” But I see that as rubbish: there is no nobility or “pureness” when there is savagery and backwardness. When people seek to rape, torture, and kill, it is not the rational, but the primitive at work. In my earlier article “Modern culture vs traditional culture,” I laid down my position that Filipinos best leave behind primitive cultures (and even cultural identities) and move forward to more modern lifestyles and practices, as a way to solve poverty and corruption in this country. And it can apply not just to African or Philippine culture, but any tribalism-trapped people, like the Sentinel Islands denizens.
Some will defend African Time and say it is a legitimate culture worth respecting; “all cultures are equal,” “respect all cultures,” they will say. Nah; there are bad and good cultures, and bad and good ideas. We should eliminate the bad ideas and keep practicing the good ones.
There is a ray of hope, as a friend of mine had been to Kigali in Rwanda, which he described as undergoing development into being the Singapore of Africa. If that is the plan, I hope it continues in such way. That will mean a part of Africa has left African Time and decided to be in touch with modern sensibility and acceptance of the future. And yes, this is the same nation that witnessed a brutal massacre. But if it does become the beacon of modernism and development in Africa, that would be a lovely turnaround, and may the rest of Africa follow.
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