The Western Paradigm Is Rotten: A Wholesale Purge Is Required

Adebayo Adeniran
4 min readNov 21, 2023

The sooner it happens the better.

A journalist, whose sacrifice exemplifies the spirit of the Palestinians. Image via Twitter

A few days ago, the Scottish National Party triggered a vote in the Westminster parliament for cease fire in Gaza and guess what?

The vote was defeated handily.

The vast majority of Labour MPs, who wanted to vote with their conscience couldn’t do so, because they were instructed by the leader of the party —Keir Starmer.

The Conservatives, as was their wont, voted and abstained in large numbers for the continued slaughter of Palestinian babies and women in real time and we are left with one inescapable fact: our current system is completely rotten.

Rotten from being compromised with the dollars of the oligarchs, who determine those who represents us and who don’t.

Rotten from the grotesque inequality, which has destroyed social mobility beyond all recognition.

And clearly rotten from fighting unjust wars, which were never sanctioned by the public.

To be fair, this fact was staring us in the face and we chose to look the other way, the whole time.

We had Iraq, Syria, and not forgetting Libya.

Back in 2003, the United States with the United Kingdom, defied the UN and its citizens…

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Adebayo Adeniran
Adebayo Adeniran

Written by Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible

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