Instant Gratification ...02

We have become so used to being treated unfairly by authority figures that we have come to accept that we deserve to be so treated.

But in truth, the reverse is also the case. We treat authority figures, particularly the police, unfairly too. For instance, we treat them unfairly to a low living wage and then leave them to their own devices.   We fill them with the need to augment their income.

So, they ask for a bribe and we give it; we offer a bribe, they accept it. In exchange, they overlook our offences and allow us to get away with murder and avoid lengthy bureaucratic processes. Quid pro quo! 

In addition, they get to keep whatever else they solicit at the roadblock and at 101 other places and occasions. A farsighted officer will put a chunk of this away for the rainy day or as a pension pot, because little or none may be coming from official sources after retirement. Certainly, here is one willy officer who will not be protesting over poor or unpaid pension in retirement.

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Instant Gratification ..01

 We have become so used to being treated unfairly by authority figures that we have come to accept that we deserve to be so treated.

But in truth, the reverse is also the case. We treat authority figures, particularly the police, unfairly too. For instance, we treat them unfairly to a low living wage and then leave them to their own devices.   We fill them with the need to augment their income.

So, they ask for a bribe and we give it; we offer a bribe, they accept it. In exchange, they overlook our offences and allow us to get away with murder and avoid lengthy bureaucratic processes. Quid pro quo! 

In addition, they get to keep whatever else they solicit at the roadblock and at 101 other places and occasions. A farsighted officer will put a chunk of this away for the rainy day or as a pension pot, because little or none may be coming from official sources after retirement. Certainly, here is one willy officer who will not be protesting over poor or unpaid pension in retirement. 

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In Life And In Death …04

 Glowing eulogies and tributes have been flowing in the direction of former President, Buhari who passed on Sunday, July 13, 2025. He was buried on Tuesday July 15. May his soul rest in peace!

A couple of days before his demise, I posted the last in a series of cartoons which I started 14 years ago. Conceived with the thought that “life imitates art”, the cartoons “In life and in death …1-3” were based on fictional characters – party leader, Chief Lathief and Mr Johnson.

Based on a real-life character, the cartoon below helps to corroborate the idea that life, indeed, imitates art, or is it “art imitates life”?

In Life And In Death …03

 Like I said in earlier posts, we feel obligated to speak well of the dead, whatever the devil they were in life and to spare no expense to give them a once-in-a-lifetime burial.

We have also found a way to take this convention to extremes. A sort of, “I come to praise Caesar; not to bury him.” We give glowing eulogies and tributes, either to conceal something or in anticipation of what we are hoping to get out of the tragedy.