Nigeria, Sept. 9 -- We now live in a time when social media has turned the marketplace of ideas into a noisy bazaar where every opinion is shouting for validation. It is no longer enough to go to school or collect a degree. You have to sharpen your thinking just to survive the flood of insights, hot takes and half-truths that fly at you daily.



Subjects that once came with a clear moral label such as cultism, pornography, masturbation, BBL, gay and lesbian identity, cosmetic surgery, organ enlargement, smoking, alcohol, drugs..now arrive wrapped in nuance. To be fair, human, and realistic today is to sit with complexity instead of reaching for easy judgment.



It was in this confusion that I ran into a post about "poverty mentality....