Regard for others is sinking deep: No longer society of live and let’s live
The cards have changed and one can clearly see a dangerous community order of die and let’s live, with only a tiny greedy and selfish minority in command.
Otherwise, why has the wild craze for money, said to be the root of all evils, suddenly descended on us and turning hearts cold?
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Why are there so many brazen activities to chase money, never mind who loses out?
It is simply a world of die and let’s live.
One remembers those good old times when one used to be well and truly one’s keeper in the communities we lived.
The times when one could stand with chest out and blow the trumpet for belonging to a peaceful open and caring society.
It was those days when children could play outside till late without parents worrying.
Those days when any older person could call and send a child in the neighbourhood to do errands for them without even seeking parental approval, because it was an open society and people lived for each other.
Old Testament days
Are those good neighbourliness and care for one another gone forever?
There are enough signs around to answer yes from what one sees, reads and hears in the news.
The wickedness happening around us are not different from what happened in Noah’s days before God sent the floods to wipe away evil from the face of the earth.
They are not different from the days of Sodom and Gomorrah and cannot be different from the days of Lot, all of which are told in the Old Testament.
Yet, those lessons are not of any worry to a society which is said to have up to 70 per cent Bible believers.
Things are so bad that even some so-called men of God, who openly carry the Bible in their hands and preaching good over evil, are under the cover of darkness planning evil.
They are pre-meditating and executing the killing in cold blood of fellow human beings simply for money rituals.
The sad story of an innocent young lady, a prospective student of nursing, who perhaps without any suspicion thought her own sister’s connection had landed her a safe accommodation, while in transit, ended up locked up in a room with her mobile phone taken from her.
What happened next was brutal murder in cold blood.
A victim of well-orchestrated money ritual.
Greed
The dangerous greed for money as if it is the be all for life in our new order and for which people are actually creating time to plan the cold murder of fellow human beings is becoming exceedingly frightful.
It is sad that security and safety have been compromised with impunity in the quest to get rich quick.
If it is not cold blood murder for money rituals, it is hacking of phones of hard working individuals and using technology to steal and wipe out the life savings of their victims.
And as if all that were not enough worries, illegal mining and sad destruction of our environment has also reared its head, again with impunity. Degradation of our forests has gained heightened currency, in search for gold.
Unfortunately, this turn is posing as an attraction for easy and quick way to make money.
And so the environment bequeathed to generations of Ghanaians are being desecrated now with nothing left for the future.
It is heartbreaking to see precious vegetation laced with water bodies being brutalised and land abandoned with gaping trenches after the looting.
A clear case of die and let’s live.
Our beautiful society is turning something else.
The pace is being dictated by the love for money by a few who are not stopping to think about the consequences of their actions on the majority.
Take illegal mining for example.
It has not only degraded the environment, deprived people of arable lands and safe water bodies, but it has also left dangerous traces of poisonous mercury, we are told, in those rivers and environments where mining has taken place.
Experts have explained that the dangerous levels of mercury being used by illegal miners have dire consequences for the health of those exposed to the substance, with time. Has the greed for wealth blocked the warmth in the hearts of illegal miners to the extent that the life of others, now and the future is of no importance?
The saying that we live in dangerous times has become very real.
Real because of the wickedness and other vices that have erupted in our communities because of the craze for money.
It all calls for complete orientation.
But who will bell the cat?
