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We Live In The Age of The Absurd: Welcome To The New Normal

Adebayo Adeniran
3 min read5 days ago

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The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

Folks who would have been deemed less than worthy in times past, are now firmly in charge and determining the fate of humanity.

And given their visceral hatred of the system, they are falling over themselves to dismantle everything, piece by piece.

But should we blame these misfits and renegades?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was never fit for purpose, deliberately targeting marginalized communities and also playing their part in not only assassinating their prominent voices, but also ensuring that a leadership class would never emerge from the inner cities of Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.

The United States Agency for International Development might have had lofty ambitions to elevate millions in disparate parts of the world from poverty and desolation, but it soon became the means through which billions of dollars was funneled by the Central Intelligence Agency to implement coups, wars and regime change in nations of the global south.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was meant to ensure that ruinous destructive wars and genocide never happened again, instead it became a tool of undermining the Russian strongman who had…

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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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