The Global Gravity Collapse and the Extensive Collateral Damages on the World -By Jimi Bickersteth

“Nothing is impossible,… It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.” Author François De LA Rochefoucauld.

The world’s recent experience of an extensive aperçuz, a near-apocalpse whose prognosis shocked, shook, and rocked even its foundation. An aperçuz, noun, pronounced [a-per-sy] – an immediate estimate or judgement; understanding; insight on the specter of death around a doomed world loomed even larger in the advanced nations in spite of the famed advances in science and technology.

The scenarios coupled with the now famous deadly global virus, COVID-19, pronounced with a moue – a baffled pouting grimace, [koh-vid-nahyn-teen], presented the spectre that looked like an imminent third world war in a movie setting, and a looming recession to governments, parents and loved ones, and even to those watching the tragedies from anywhere across the globe.

Though the COVID-19 incidences and fatalities up till now are quite cultured, but for the gory sight of pathetic humans in body bags, seeing terrified students at home watching on television and anguished on-lookers (some with ashes on their foreheads) was a reminder not only that we must face the reality of death, but also that far too many are dying from a negligent culture that destroys lives, families, society and communities.

I was prompted to address how to avoid parental frustration at this time, I lifted my head, removed my glasses, tried to focus my slightly crossed eyes, decided it wasn’t worth the effort, and settled back down on the matter of the moment. At the same time I felt my ecru-coloured feline stopped by my feet, stared at me, then went on its way.

That cat is a menace, so is the COVID-19 scourge and the resultant global gravity collapse, that is giving a new meaning to the word “order”- the global social order; and that’s not being ridiculous about the tragedies and deaths around the world with little or no comedies about the world, its present times and events. Not entertaining at all. I let out an indignant squeak. I’m compelled to pursue this gravity collapse, that stole on the world like “a thief in the night” further in a world turning rather grandly as a conservatory.

Gravity is that force in physic that attracts objects in space towards each other, and on the earth pulls them towards the centre of the planet, so that things fall to the ground when dropped, this natural forces of gravity appears to have fallen in so suddenly, and breaking apart. COVID-19 has caused the global economy, its enterprise, health, prices, shares, trading, markets and tents to collapse. All fall inwards, became flat and empty.

The gravity of the situation and the looming imminent recession, its bandwagon effects and its extreme importance has to capture the whole of global attention.

But the twinkle in the eyes of world leaders belied the gravity of the situation and presupposes a conspiracy somewhat. In spite of the global lockdown, lock, stock and barrel, the world leaders appears to be losing the plot, that’s how bad it can get. Have you ever watched the news, thoughts and opinions in the last few month, can things get any worse. There has been so much deaths of the aged, old, middle age and the young and infants, that some fear an Apocalypse, some believe the world must be close to its bible-propesied end, or perhaps the world is on the fringes and that we are living in the time just before the end of the world.

Between December 2019 when the pandemic officially broke out and April 2020 more people have been killed in peace time than at any other time in human history. Just imagine the pains and misery coupled with food shortages and lack of money to purchase at exhorbitant prices what was on offer.  The Tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricane’s, terrorist attacks all became like child’s play. The pandemic and the shutdown and its costs on humanity. Yet, as we speak, has no cure. The world asks, “why?” Many hoped that the spate of recurrent horrific and deadlier deaths would rouse the world from its collective moral slumbering and produce effective forensic monitoring.

This global lockdown broke one’s heart. The world is divided along those who have taken the covid-19 vaccination looking out for those who have not to die, while those who have not are awaiting those who have to die, what a paradox. In any case people on either side of the divide were dying. I know I’m not the only one afraid of the world’s tomorrow. Kids all over the globe were exposed to the television reports, newspaper articles, worried conversation amongst the adults.

It was the worst spring of my life, and the weirdest. It was the spring the world showcased its fantastic superhuman abilities, the three warring worlds attempt to resolve their differences over the planet, and the world of COVID-19, coronade are thrown into chaos by special interest groups that continue to dominate world politics and a failing United Nation and its robust legislations, oral and written intervention that even many across the globe see as just plain common sense pedestrian or not forthcoming.

So the world remains one that has descended from its magnificent grandeur, one where bloodletting and pouring blood out as dust, with perplexity and the prospects for changing that and the prevailing ‘superiority complex’ of the dimwitted superpowers seemed dim and our hearts are beginning to entertain fear of our dithering diplomats and politician diplomatese. Kíní lá’jo rí ẹyìn tó pọ́n tí ò ṣ’epo fọ́’mọ aráiyé! The Yoruba’s quip. What is our politics!

The latest tragedy in what was becoming a pandemic of horrible and senseless experiences involving children and their parents in a  macabre orgy and dance of death. The world never planned for this sudden ends, and a global gravity collapse and strange lockdown. None foresaw all of this, goosebumps run up and down my spine, and I shiver. I know parents have tried to shield the kids as best as they could from the awful details of the litany and long chain of deaths and ill health in our nations, or precisely, how many there have been. But how do we tell them that the adults around haven’t been able to fix? That nothing has happened to make these horrible events stop.

My take is that the nations, united or disunited must align in the intrest of humanity to turn setbacks into comebacks; it must understand this wisdom from Henry Ford, “Life is a series of experiences each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching forward.”

This days, apart from the shutdowns of the scheme of things and processes, shutting down global economic and political systems, and MZ’s Monday shutdown of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, one is not sure what to expect in a world with a legendary warped social justice, peace, propaganda, poor-living conditions and general insecurity affecting mostly the poor and the marginalised in a world that was forever struggling to emerge from centuries of retrogression, recessions, dithering on misplaced priorities and the daily struggle for survival facing over 70% of itspopulation.

The world’s present status has revealed a situation where the world leaders were focusing more on superficial religious rituals and less on  a profoundly personal way of relating to one another and unable to found strength to deal with the physical, psychological and social challenges of living. Some politicians, searching desperately for a justification for their appalling record of inaction, have even claimed that it is impossible to ban or legislate away evil-fallacious reasoning.

Legislation cannot make evil disappear, but it can prevent and deter acts of evil and create environment that are safer, freer, and more compatible with human dignity, where people irrespective of colour, Creed or religion can flourish as persons under one world government.

And every serious public servant knows this, polarisation, partisanship, and the influence of special interest groups produces excuses. One can understand how easily citizens who care about addressing the pandemic might give in to cynicism and despair. The world cannot wait until that social media buzz to promote the cause of equity, equality and good governance, and organised protests against a world and those who are fighting to preserve the deadly status quo ante.

As many as one million people have died and countless others still sick of the debilitating pandemic. Today the global reality is a bleak one on both the sociopolitical and economic fronts. In the last three months the world appears to know more of the experience of painful, hardship than it does of its warped prosperity. The challenges that existed prior to the global lockdown was further compounded by numerous conflicts bordering on political relevance and international relations both of which was striving to stunt economic progress and international cohesion.

With a large population in need of food and medical support the shutdown is stifling and at the same time signalling the imminent collapse of the old world order; but the advent of the new order may mean so many things to the about 70% of the world’s population’s growing deficit in infrastructure and mounting debts retarding their growth and development. The developing and emerging world struggling with traditions, the senselessness of their own leaders greed and heist, the ignorance that comes from lack of ‘education’, the emotional tiredness and numbness of a whole generation of people who have already lost so much and don’t have a fight in them.

The precarious state of things globally and the fantastic debt burden has showcased a very deficient system for a large population that have no access to medical care, and if treated by medical personnel most don’t have the financial wherewithal to buy the medicines, or the medicines are not available. The biggest killer are malaria and also hunger-related illness –malnourished babies, anaemia and infections. The COROVID-19 attacks should help the developing and emerging world to sustain the momentum so that caring and futuristic and altruistic planning remains on the top of agenda of international discourses even during a chaotic era of compressed news cycles.

The world’s youth quest for building a better world can no longer leave it to others to be the protagonists of change in a world where its gravity has collapsed. Change from the mess all round and around. A mess that gives us solidarity and hope with despair, yet shaking up a world that is too often afraid of change and indifferent to injustice.

And with the COVID-19 global expedition and experiences, the world can’t afford to remain impassively quiet. It must be unified in the message that the continuous strings of deaths is unacceptable and that new legislation is needed.

The pain continues to be very real for the people, and the present time call for a variety of changes, which the UN as presently configured may not be able to combat. Albeit, the extraordinary role the UN is in focusing the world on this critical social problems deserving of a global reengineering. The processes should be presented in a manner that would impact the tone of the debates and ensuing resolutions about the global health, guns, violence, economic deprivations. The world leaders should realize that the present tragedies victimized people from all walks of life, from every class and ethnicity and religion, disregarding economic divide.

The political class and diplomats in the emerging new global order owe the world support as they make needless deaths and deprivation a centrepiece of concerted efforts to promote social justice to earn their corns. Such initiatives, words and actions show that new legislation on the world economy, politics, and health are critical, it also require addressing issues such as poverty, racism, drugs, unemployment, gang culture, and more, that stand as obstacles to the realisation of the common good.

With the new world order, the emerging world and picturesque has to find away to inject hope into the push for more sensible administration, whose impact in changing the global conversation will inspire a new spirit of public service and engagement that will eventually transform global politics and diplomacy; reviving democratic norms, inspiring political and social reforms that gives power, real power back to the people, and initiating policy changes that are desperately needed to protect the world’s vulnerable and advance the common good.

Here, the ID2020 alliance and governance intended as a “coalition of the willing” hinged on an approach that is supposedly holistic market-based and address the full scope of that scale of the challenge to the world. It is obvious and clear as daylight that no government, company or agency can solve this challenge alone. Setting the future course of digital ID and navigating the associated risks is a challenge that requires sustained collaborative and global partnership as it sets to build a new global model for the design, funding, and implementation of digital ID solution and technologies.

This initiative of course has Christians biblical interests as captured in the Bible book of Revelation 13:16-18 and sleuth misinformation from elsewhere and all over to contend with. However, you have to make a distinction between religion – which some see as a political structure having to do with power and control – and faith, which is something very personal and private, and has to do with one very own personal relationship with the creator. This distinction is important so as not to use religious reasons to disparage politics and socioeconomics of existence and survival.

God is not an ethic, ethnic, event or a social event or even a religious event, it is something that is the hidden glue of humanity. Hence, the Alliance, needs broader partnership to be able to bring about transformative impact, changing the flow of funds and addressing the imbalance and wide gulf between the ‘haves’ and ‘havenots’ is necessary to realign incentives. For most of the African continent for instance, identity statistics is vital for political, economic and social opportunity.

Where the systems of identification are archaic, insecure, lack adequate privacy protection and for over a billion people inaccessible.

Closing the identity gap is an enormous challenge, it will take the efforts of many committed people and organizations coming together across different geographies, sectors and technologies to provide the world with an essential building block to every right and opportunity they deserve. However, the forces against change are continuing to fight to preserve the deadly status quo, but legislation can break through to secure the common sense legislation that can make the nation safer and shift global politics in a positive direction. 

Growth doesn’t just occur – it takes the right culture, processes and discipline. Most importantly growth takes intent and deliberate focused action and developing strategies and measurable executable plans.  The world and its UN penchant for a global drama script of more-dialogue-less-action and the global setting of a bland and mediocre existence must be seen to be changing. Today, it appears the world is filled with idealism, and struggling with ideas of development and change. It is not easy for anybody.

The COVID-19 pandemic looks like a global turning point, you’ll note that the most decisive turning points in world history are substantially co-determined by souls and or events whom no history book ever mentions. We will only find out about those souls or events or incidents to whom we owe the decisive turning point in life on the day when all that is hidden is revealed. The world has to reflect and embody at this moment in its history a global aspect of development and growth indices and why they have become obstacles to global prosperity and wellbeing.

The world is broke because it is driven by a lot of economic indices and the cost of crude oil prices are going down from the way it is, and the COVID-19 and the global lockdown is going to affect a lot of disposable incomes. The world will have to in the painful days ahead cut spending and with it reduce all the capital expenditures and with a lot of worsening debt crisis a bad case is made worse.

The world has to mobilise global consensus to confront a monumental tragedy looming and a threatening recession, especially the assault on peace, security and prosperity.

Last line:The devastating impact of #COVID-19 as an enemy that has no borders or creed has made the world to see how irrelevant the things that divide the world are.Hope the world come through soon with this experience fighting poverty, diseases, ignorance, under-development.

#JimiBickersteth

Jimi Bickersteth is a writer and blogger.

He can be reached on Twitter@bickerstethjimi@alabaemanuel Emails: jimi.bickersteth@gmail.com jimi.bickersteth@ yahoo.co.ukjimibickersteth8@gmail.com