Most important teaching the world is yet to unravel?

Does the blurry dotted lines of right and wrong equal blurriness of justice? How do we really tell the right from the wrong? How do we decide who was wrong and who was right in a world of plethora biases. The rightest and most wrong of all motives may be difficult to determine by the human order. The Homo sapiens’s court of law may be mistaken at hammering justice but obviously that will not be difficult with whom we have to give account of all our deeds. Differentiating the evil and good will be based on precision by the court of heaven.

When I look back on how justice has been meted out, I feel deeply sorry for the sufferers of injustice. Where I may have been licking my wounds of injustice sufferings, I would quickly hide my sufferings under the brutal relics of concentration camps like Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka, etc. Despite the huge depravity those Jews and many prisoners of wars went through, justice was not meted out appropriately. So, you are tempted to question God about the very reason He claimed the title of Just God? Nevertheless, the greatest judge of all cannot be sleepy. He can’t afford to slumber over justice when eternity awaits the last verdict from Him. The unveiling of Truth cannot be hidden from the TRUTH Himself. Every action will have recompense.

We were taught that our motives will be judge and not mere actions. Yet in order to understand actions, something else must be considered. Most important is that thing which is behind the actions themselves. What are the factors that drive our actions? We know that actions are driven by thoughts, imaginations, beliefs, upbringings, and more. It is vital to give more considerations to how we think what we think. 

When we think of how thoughts originate, we might further look beyond such things like our culture, upbringing, family history, national heritage, environment, etc.  We might just bundle all the aforementioned into: information sources. That is where many reasons for our thoughts came from. Now, variables that drive our thoughts originate from one or more sources.  Such source that drives the information which determined actions are worth considering. As we move deeper and further, we will see why we may have to study the origin of the sources…of what drives the information that drives the thoughts that drives the actions? So, source of sources…of information becomes our subject. We will forever travel back in history to determine that. In digging out many unimaginable things like these, the root cause of events, actions and reactions will not only be known; forgiveness will be easy for the unforgiving.

In other to avert the tendency for excessive digression, I will say that most of the teachings that will rescue the next generations in the years to come will have to look deeper than the present generation’s teachings. 

The frontiers of knowledge will have to extend into areas such as the root cause of thoughts and actions. Beyond the present day’s teachings on such subjects like management, leadership, strategy and more; teachings that will rescue people will be those teachings that help them confront their thoughts and motives.

Certainly training people how to be more effective and proactive are great. Greater than that will be trainings that are able to flip motives like someone frying eggs or roasting turkeys. In other to have an even roast, all sides must be thoroughly cooked. We will have to seriously give more attention to things of deeper meaning like: “what is the end result of all our teachings? For I think that these teachings are like tools with which we really need to achieve a purpose. But humanity is becoming overtly carried away by the end rather than the process to the end itself. In other for humanity to endure and progress, we must give attention to that origin of motives and the rightness of motive. Am I saying that we have not been doing that at all? No. Am I assuming that we have not been using management wisdom rightly? No. I will forever be grateful to management discipline. I will continue to advocate for the need of leadership wisdom. But the question is: to what end are we teaching management and leadership?

So, why are we advocating for effectiveness and efficiency? Why do we want our people to be proactive? Because these skills are not enough in themselves. All they need to be perverted skills are one bill that gets passed in the house, then politically correctness will no longer be what it used to be.

My humble submission is that we cannot afford to assume that skills acquisitions and trainings are the solution to the world’s problem. Why because the Nazi’s were obviously effective group. Adolf Hitler led a German army that were certainly efficient. They were dignified and disciplined in their cause. They had a singleness of purpose, which was extermination of the Jews. So the question is not about training people because that army went through actual military drilling. The question that differentiated them was the motive behind it all. The question of: 'was the cause noble indeed as they were led or misled to believe?' (Depending on where you pitch your tent). It was all about the rightness of motive. This is why the whole question does not lie merely at the door of management books and leadership trainings. It bores down to questioning of motives and weighing of driving force behind actions. 

When we have a vision or a purpose, it is not enough to stop there. There is more reason to ask and confront the motives behind that. How are we sure that our motive is right, pure as crystal, undiluted and faultless? How are we sure that we are right in our causes? Is it by hindsight? Is it by teaching people that their choices will definitely have consequence(s) or there are better ways to determine that so that people don’t wreck their lives and even go further in destroying other people’s lives?

Till date, many of the ninety percent unprosecuted offenders of genocides walk freely. 

Those who served in the Nazi’s army believed that they were right. They were more convinced that they were doing the right thing by exterminating the Jews. Similarly, the Hutu tribes of Rwanda were not acting under assumptions when they were killing the Tutsi tribes because they considered them as snakes and cockroaches. When a different tribe are considered sub-humans in terms of ethnicity, it was not assumption.  That genocide claimed over a million lives in  Rwanda. Yet those who started it felt they were right. The deception of human hearts could be traced back in history to the time of crucifixion of Jesus. Those who crucified Jesus felt that they were doing God a favor by killing Jesus. Why because this "Joker" from Nazareth is claiming to be God. And that was the highest form of blasphemy in history. So they killed the Messiah of the world. The question is how can we truly tell when motives are right or wrong? I strongly believe that one of the utmost teachings which the world is yet to seriously unravel is this teaching on the rightness of motive, the power behind motivations. Could this be a teaching the ancients missed till date?