May belief Philosophers

To be a philosopher you have to be acclaimed to an idea and be a great thinker. This has been the life’s definition of philosopher for as long as I remember. You had to have a voice and that voice had to be heard and brought into being. This brings me to my assumption of the may belief philosophy syndrome. This from my terms is what countless numbers of us are doing, the woke generation blinded by numerous and countless movements, prisoners of our knowledge that a lot of us are unable to convert into meaning but rather paper and money. We the dreamers of the world have become more of daydreamers that innovators. We spend our days and nights ranting on platforms like Twitter and WhatsApp about the perfect worlds that have a lavishly impractical birth. Not because it is impossible but because we lack the drive and will to bring to life our minds. If I may call us hypocrites.

The earth has been around for presumably thousands of years and with each year a revolutionary mind is born and molded into the groundbreaking philosophers that we adore and study to this day. We have been a generation graced by the thoughts of individuals like Karl Marx, Simone de Beauvoir, and William James. These are some of the historically and worldly acclaimed philosophers that have their work still sipping into our daily lives. Bring it back to our beloved country we have countless recognized and non-recognized philosophers the likes of Nehanda Charwe Nyasikana and Sekuru Kagubi who had ideas of freedom and revolution in the life of bondage they had been born in.

I looked into these philosophers and they had one thing in common, they didn’t just let their beliefs or ideas run dry in their heads they perfected them and they made sense for the benefit of mankind and evolution of society. Karl Marx the father of communism saw the dent in his society and proclaimed the wrong, abandoning his comfortable life for what is written as a healthy cause. He till now has birthed the communist nations that have been seen to somehow prosper despite some downfalls in its maturity. Simone de Beauvoir who was a well-known French writer and feminist claimed her title through her love of fraternity among human beings. Her quote ” One is not born but one becomes….” paved the way to the rapid movement of Feminism she had a well know belief of the equal capability of woman and man. She wrote several books on female oppression like The Second Sex in a time where being a woman was more or less being a piece of furniture. Nehanda and Kaguvi were no different from these other philosophers I mentioned. Their impact was even greater than theirs. Despite them being mediums, their ideas fueled the actions that led to our independence. Their lives and mentality changed the course of their current reality to where we are now. These women and men were as human as we are but created sparks that ignited more than just fires but the atomic explosion made a difference.

They fuel our minds till now, their work has made the relevance of being woke to be a title and not their intended need of it to be a tool and instrument of change. So, I still come back to our may belief philosopher generation to live not one stone unturned in our minds but also our ways and pave a way for change in our tomorrow.