Profound changes are being made in our desire to live together and these shocks have diverse origins: social, economic and political.
To understand the importance of the changes occurring at the global level, we must examine the new behaviors of the average Senegalese from a social, economic and political perspective.
Social life seems weakened since the role of protection, education and support is increasingly disintegrating within the family which must remain the basis of cohesion in Senegal. The distribution of roles and tasks changes with economic and technological progress which accentuates external influences through the importation of “values” in all directions. Thus, the social fabric is gradually torn apart and at the same time a system of validation of these “values” from elsewhere is established without resistance. Complacency and partisanship take over the cardinal virtues. Given that change is inevitable, we must change without abandoning the essential which is to always refer to our Senegalese culture in its beautiful convergent diversity. Only anchoring to our authentic culture can save what remains, reinvent and breathe new life into Senegalese society. To do this, it is urgent to dissect the sources of upheaval in our system of family values and, by extension, societal values.
First, the abandonment of our culinary traditions leading to the establishment of diseases previously socially unknown, a purchasing power at a discount because everything can be bought now. The way we eat is a highly cultural level that must be reestablished in order to reduce very costly health risks. To restore good collective morality, it is necessary that each of us be able to eat as much as we want without embarrassment or external dependence. Our greatest fight must be against hunger, because it is the source of all the ills of the social fabric and the greatest obstacle to development in short. Indeed, hunger is the source of poverty and not the other way around, human beings develop more quickly if they manage to extract from their thoughts the search for sustenance and awaken their innate potential as vicar on earth, that is to say, a builder.
Secondly, the breakthrough of the media with programs that are completely out of phase, to the detriment of traditional nighttime vigils around a story, a tale or debates of ideas. Social networks occupy our days, not even time for a little reflection on better use, always looking for views and everything is open, everything is permitted, restraint seems to disappear forever. Everything escapes, escapes us and no one cares, so the father is no longer the benchmark that the mother urges you to follow. They have become simple progenitors for their offspring. The other, the unexplored, is the landmark without being the lair. The family home is becoming more and more empty due to this virtual presence. To say concisely that the family unit, which is the basis of all social life, must recover and deploy itself to play its fundamental role as an economic agent as a household. The household can be defined as domestic government and everything that concerns the expenditure and maintenance of a family. To say that the family is also the primordial economic pillar of a Nation. Everything starts from this cell, so to aspire to real development, it must be placed back at the center of economic life.
Currently, this domestic government is struggling to fully play its role as an economic actor despite its enormous potential. All economic agents come from this government, regardless of their position in the system. So, it is imperative to awaken this potential that slumbers in each of us, to hope for prosperity, because the ultimate goal of any society is to benefit from all its members in order to achieve harmonious and integrated development. This irremediably requires the inculcation of exemplary citizenship through education, and especially through the culture which determines our way of living in our environment. This awakening will ensure that each citizen will take ownership of the development of their neighborhood, their commune, and so on, until they become the Senegalese that we so desire. A Senegalese with the cult of a job well done, responsibility and justice. The latter is the synthesis of three qualities that we should borrow from the scales whose ultimate objective is equity which can be translated by balance and not equality.
The first is the sensitivity that is incumbent on anyone who aspires to lead their fellow human beings, from the head of the family, through the mayor, to the head of state. Sensitivity stands out here as an essential quality and in no way means weakness, because it is courage, in all its splendor, thus detached from temerity and cowardice in decision-making.
The second quality is accuracy which is required to indicate the rules to follow in order to establish social cohesion by respecting our habits and customs in all areas of the life of our Nation. At the national level, the National Assembly should appropriate this quality to pass laws that resemble us and bring us together.
The third is loyalty which is very useful for any relationship that wants to last and build trust. In the family space, this quality is in decline due to non-compliance with the application of the rules laid down culturally and religiously by society. The judicial power must, at the state level, apply with rigor and intelligence, if not faithfully, the laws passed by the representatives of the People without bias. Without this, the sensitivity of the Executive and the accuracy of the laws of the Legislature will be of no use, because the absence of fidelity would mask all efforts towards social cohesion, because without justice nothing can work. Injustice resurrects the monster that lies dormant in each of us; only justice, which has the scales as its symbol, is capable of stopping it.
And there, we are directly involved in politics which relates to public affairs, to the government of a State or to the mutual relations of various States, so this immense and exhilarating space requires dynamic training and infallible information, hence the need for parties to prioritize the training of their activists and supporters so that they can have the qualities required to serve and not serve themselves.
Rekindle the enthusiasm that has finally died out because of the prevailing injustice in all our socio-economic as well as political interactions. Nothing is right anymore, the law of the strongest continues to reign and no one cares about what we have in common: Senegal
Partisanship takes hold and dictates its laws, and this destroys social cohesion because no one anymore seeks the truth, but rather to be right. And there, these are the signs of a country in distress not because of the lack of electoral democracy, but because of the absence of a democracy of life where everyone feels concerned, not surrounded. Our democracy is still under construction for those concerned who have identified the failures in the quest and exercise of power. To overcome these failures and complete our democracy, we must rigorously confront the harsh realities of life by reversing the roles to discern the truth without assigning it to ourselves.
The single truth is that we must unite to arouse hope and build a prosperous Senegal, imperatively through the humanly developed Senegalese. Without cohesion, nothing will be possible, despite our multiple natural resources, so let us help each other, with sincerity and wisdom, first through the family which will generate a model citizen anchored in its traditions, but open to the world with competitiveness.
Souleymane SECK – Senegalese citizen
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