Essays In Persuasion

  MA Iliasu . Hard work, they say, is the input of success. The same way reputation has been proved as the measure of competence. Human society doesn't entirely work on speculation, as Maynard Keynes would say, but it greatly gets affected by it. And so, the renditions of social culture have dictated that a well-reputed hard worker would have better chance of earning college degree, securing bank loan, recording a good bank balance and winning woman's hand for marriage than any other person termed the opposite. This what's familiar. And familiarity, to an extent, determines the norm. Therefore this is the norm. Which mainly points to one thing; the society appointing people and any other social institution as the managers of their social image by owing them a debt of consistency upon their actions and inactions; the paying back of which will determine whether their social image is painted in agreed stature or not. Shehu Jaha, the protagonist of the famous satirical Hausa-fo...

MA Iliasu. Man is naturally never adrift of irony. Observation has proved that. And so we live in a world in which people think the leader of global super power, who beforehand, also happens to be a multimillionaire, is dumb because he chat nonsense to the media. We live in a world in which people think the Korean leader is bad and therefore deserves staying in coma because he doesn't fancy smiling in the public. We live in the world in which people think the governor of the state that accommodates the largest commercial city in Africa, who beforehand holds a doctorate degree and has been in power for half his own life, is dumb and stupid because he looks like a perishing doughnut. The same ironic world that thinks the governor of the state that borders the city from south is a genius by hanging his economy, which the economists say is a bicycle that falls when the wheels stop rolling, by the balls. The world in which grown adults think social media hashtags could rescue the oppres...

MA Iliasu. If you read on this blog regularly, you must've gotten tired of reading about Jean Jacques Rousseau's the Stag-Hunter impact, Ibn Khaldoun's Prey-predator dynamic, and surely John Maynard Keynes's paradox of thrift, among others. The three intriguing dimensions are heterogeneously interdependent for the fact that they all help explain the effect of paradox; which has been proved as the constant outcome of collective reaction. This time, I'll attempt an audacious analysis regarding the prospect of successful courtship, being the outcome of collective social relation that exists between two people; man and woman; using the Prisoner's dilemma model - which is another adjacent of paradox. Forgive my over-flogging of the topic. The prisoner's dilemma is a standard example of a game analyzed in game theory that shows why two completely rational individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interests to do so. A common beli...