What Led To Celebrology
It was September 11, 2001 terrorist attack that led to the intellectual creativity of Celebrology. I posit, in the counterterrorism expository track intelligence theory (CTETIT) which I postulated that two sets of terrorists exist: the intralanding terrorist (a nationality that perpetrates act of terrorism within his own country and against the government of his country) and the interlanding terrorist (someone from another nation who carries act of terrorism against the people or government of another nation). The case of September 11 was an interlanding terrorism that was carried out by Osama bin Laden who assumed the role of blooding financier and still served in the operation as distant active partner, using his militant wings to attack America, killing 2,977 Americans with severe injury of nearly another 6000 Americans.
This sad incident caused me to wallow in a prolong mental trauma, which provoked me to think for solution. I felt within me that the true solution lies in creating knowledge that will liberate human’s mentality from false ideology and belief that brutally corrupts the conscience – that the greatest solution anyone can give the world today should be rooted in the knowledge of human dignity, if indeed we want to help. In creating Celebrology, this knowledge will therefore achieve two most important things:
1. It will empower humanity to solve diverse challenges that confront them, which attempt to displace and paralyse them.
2. It will disempower, discourage and castrate those who indulge in violence or any form of evil against their fellow men.
This sad provocation of Celebrology justifies and can not be exempted from the usual intellectual culture of sad provocation that characterises the birth of knowledge at any given period in the world history. The same is true of Philosophy in Greece when Socrates was unjustly killed by the evil law of the land in which he was forced to drink hemlock. Plato felt so sad and angry that he directed his sorrow and anger to the founding of the Academy, which led to the birth of academic knowledge.
The birth of Sociology followed the same process of sad provocation in France. This mayhem caused by the French Revolution (1789-1799) was highly devastating. So brutal it was, that grievous massacre was recorded. Society was in chaos and seriously disorganised. A generation-thinker of the time, Auguste Comte was willing to restore orderliness into the society, and he created the scientific study of the society. This led to the birth of Sociology. Several academic field of studies have followed their trend of birth this way.
Thinkers from time immemorial who led the world through series of intellectual inventions and scientific discoveries have proved their sincerity to solving world problems such as Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Alfred Nobel, Albert Einstein and many others. They have used knowledge to light the world.
Yes, prior to September 11, I, Sola Odumosu discovered a deep catastrophic menace in Nigeria. This was corruption. Corruption had rooted itself in the Nigerian leadership structure and became the pivot of the nation’s political system, following its liberation from colonialism. Its post-independence assault only got worsened in coup plot that deepened militarianism. Its shameful nakedness only became pronounced in the nation’s democratic dispensation. Corruption is the problem of Nigeria. Corruption is in government, corruption is in the teaming masses. It is in high places, it is in low places. It has reproduced itself in degrees, posing serious injuries to the nation’s health.
Xenophobia deepens in South Africa. This is a new cankerworm that is affecting the South African nation. Xenophobia threatens South Africa’s hard won freedom and corrodes her system, perhaps what leads to xenophobia is the citizens fear of foreigners who they falsely accuse as threats to South Africa. The research conducted has shown that it is the intimidating mental trauma South Africans had long experienced during apartheid that resulted in xenophobia. People have been killed and maimed, their innocent blood cries for vengeance on South African soil. Many have been rendered homeless and deported and is fast becoming the weapon of displacement, causing disunity in the unity of Africa.
The problems of Nigeria and South Africa pose a great danger to the health of Africa. This is not to say only in the two nations of Africa that problems exist, several nations of Africa are experiencing series of crises. These are tough times in Africa! In my conclusion of things, African reality has not been diagnosed in totality and we have not come up with the knowledge that is developed on African soil in its entire negroidic thinking-revolution, that is capable of global applicability.
Every nation of the world is being confronted with its own peculiar problem, including international disputes: the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War, Israeli-Palestinia War and many others. The peculiarity of problem in a given nation, in its aggregate complexities, is the problem of the world. This is because a given problem which originates from a given nation and is tied to it, spreads its wings to different nations of the world, such that if it troubles too many people in too many places, it becomes a global problem. This is true of colonialism, slavery, racism!.
I submit, there are issues of problem scale and fingerings of knowledge. In the problem scale, we are being attracted by a given problem. In our attempt to address this problem, we discover series of problems overlapping and persisting, which are connected to the exact problem that causes the sad provocation of knowledge, such that instead of concentrating on the problem alone, we are warned that several problems correlate with it and they must all be addressed. In addressing the complexity of these problems, such knowledge that has been sadly provoked into invention must point its fingers to so many problems and proffer solutions. This is what is called the fingerings of knowledge. Therefore Celebrology is called the knowledge of fingerings.
