Political Consciousness And The Million Dollar Mistake
How Senegal's Ousmane Sonko case exposed the dangers of extremist belief in the law of attraction
The worst attitude I have witnessed during the three-year Sonko saga in Senegal is that of the extremists of the law of attraction—an ideology that seems to have finally and fully arrived in Africa thanks to social media.
These extremists (identifiable by their Facebook posts) foolishly believe that in every situation, between the victim and the perpetrator, one must always find a positive angle, highlight it, while sending the parties away back to back.
It’s about doing everything to avoid stirring negative feelings in oneself, for as far as the law goes, positive vibes are the holy grail. The outrage of others over political violence exacted for the sake of illegally hanging on to power is perceived as ignorant.
Knowing well that these fundamentalists have horribly misunderstood the true essence of the law of attraction, which stems from a deep and active faith, I pity these desperate humans who are so convinced that easy neutrality in the face of the most tragic injustices is the royal hack against the vicissitudes of fate, an open boulevard to happiness, to abundance.
Oh, the desire for convenience!
As usual, we forget that to amass millions, one must produce and serve, rather than blindly believe in brain-numbing and passive dogmas.
Do you think Rome was built passively, merely through positive vibrations? Was the British Empire, on which the sun never set, built through passive positive vibrations?
Did Mandela and his comrades liberate South Africa from apartheid through passive vibrations? Did Mohammed Ali, the champion who was a conscientious objector and refused to kill "no Viet Cong"; did he submit to such an ethical dereliction? What about Lincoln who preserved a union? The Black Americans who freed themselves from the chains of slavery?
These people. Was their key asset the passivity of some vibratory joy? Were they ethically confused?
Let's see! If you have to remain silent in the face of murder for the universe to send you a million, there is a problem. What good is it to gain the world if you lose your soul in return?
no, if you want a million, manufacture and sell Teslas or tomatoes. Provide a useful service. The universe is not a dim-witted mistress whom you put to bed with pure nonsense.
Listen, extremism—be it Islamist or related to any fashionable ideology such as the one of positive vibrations—is always problematic. In all things, clarity and moderation.
Yes, the law of attraction is verifiable. And if there are two true practitioners in the spotlight today, it is Mr. Sonko and Faye.
They have understood what the great men of history understood before them: Faced with barbarism and human wickedness, choose the right path and determine to triumph against all the damnedest devils.
To denounce injustice, overcome obstacles, fortified by the harmony with one's conscience—the echo of the divine: That is the law of attraction.
It is not the cowardice of passivity, through which one hopes to deceive a not-so-very clever Universe that would only be concerned above all with your positive vibrations!