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In the 1960s, Eric Hoffer was Right About Why 2023 Africa Would Fail- Lack of Maintenance

It was one of the great joys of this Blogger’s hasty life, to know the stevedore-philosopher Eric Hoffer. He was the author of the tome, THE TRUE BELIEVER; a tome, which everyone interested    in politics and the foibles of human nature, should read; he was one of the great minds of the 20 th  Century.   This    Blogger met Hoffer while he was in exile; he had antagonized the Liberal Elite with his working class insights; he was specifically in exile because of one heresy. He opposed the Elitist viewpoint that Afrofuturism was the inevitable future of Mankind.   Hoffer maintained that post-colonial Africa was all fake glamour, a P.R. veneer; a veneer which would crumble, deteriorate, and atrophy,    because Africans did not have the will, nor instincts nor common sense to MAINTAIN democracy or infrastructure.    As this Blog is being written, one of the super powers of post colonial    Africa, the Republic    of South Africa has declared a national  disaster  because of the breakdown o

THE NEW YORK TIMES vs. The Legacy of Eric Hoffer on AFROFUTURISM and DIVERSITY

Since the election of Donald Trump as America's 45th President, this Blogger has subscribed to the NEW YORK TIMES. Why? Because this Blogger is particularity interested in the reaction of Anthropocene Liberal Neanderthals to the rise of the Anthropocene Trumpian Cro-Magnons; reading the NEW YORK TIMES is like reading William Golding's THE INHERITORS in real time. (THE INHERITORS by Nobel Laureate Golding tells the tale of the rise of Cro-Magnons, from the Neanderthal viewpoint....useless, ineffective grunts). In the time frame since the Trump electoral victory, the NEW YORK TIMES has been striking in its obsolete  and misguided flat earth  worldview, especially concerning the future of the world, and the current state of America. In 2017, against all known facts, the NEW YORK TIMES believes that the world's future progress depends on  benighted Africa, AFROFUTURISM. Liberals have been peddling the cant that the future is Afro since the early 1960s; it was astute