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Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has bemoaned the sorry state the social media has fallen into in Nigeria, saying it has been dragged right down to the bottom frequent denominator and brought over by individuals he reckoned as “babarians.”

Soyinka mentioned that in different climes, the social media continues to be legitimate – as technique of interactions due to the mental contents and reasoned engagements being deployed by customers however famous that right here within the nation, the reverse is the case as those that dragged it down have swapped the mental quotient side of it.

The octogenarian who spoke on Saturday on the forty eighth President’s occasion and his investiture as a honourary member of Abeokuta Club, Ogun State, mentioned the scenario has degenerated to a stage the place even a mere disagreement in an election might result in one being labeled on social media as having a phobia about others.

At the investiture graced by the Alake and Paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, and lots of outstanding Egba little kids, the Playwright urged the nation’s neighborhood of mind of minds and creativity to rescue the nation from the monstrosity of the social media.

Apparently referring to the final common elections, particularly the presidential election side of it, Soyinka mentioned he was each astonished and flabbergasted that folks have been so energy besotted that they may not even settle for the likelihood that they didn’t win the election and reasonably than desk their info for thorough scrutiny, they resorted to demonization of others.

On his investiture as a honourary member of the Abeokuta Club the place Dr. Adewale Adeola is the President, Soyinka mentioned it was a recognition he personally cherished, saying the Club is a honourable social group, having interacted with a great variety of members at private stage.

“In a scenario the place disagreement in an election can lead one being labeled one thing phobia or no matter. It is actually superb that in a neighborhood of mind, real and genuine worth after which now we have a scenario of one thing known as the social media. The social media is awash with accusations of 1 being a sort of ethnophobic. So unusual to me however that’s what now we have been diminished to. And when that sort of accusation comes, there is no such thing as a want or worth in making an attempt to say you aren’t. You simply say, Thank you very a lot! The complement of ethnophobia is ethnophilia.

“So, if you’re ethnophobic in a single route, then pull again and change into ethnophilia within the different route and depart those that declare that they’re being phobilized to wallow in their very own marketing campaign of hatred, of dehumanization of others merely due to obvious routine mundane actions as holding a political opinion, as making political remark and warning others to not plunge the society into the darkish age from which we barely emerged at very merciless dictatorship, probably the most merciless this nation has ever had.

“I’m astonished and flabbergasted that individuals are so energy besotted that they’ll’t even settle for the likelihood that they didn’t win an election. It doesn’t matter whether or not you’re proper or mistaken or they’re proper. It is only a query. Take your info to the desk, let’s look at them rigorously, think about the likelihood that we could also be mistaken or it’s possible you’ll be mistaken however you don’t must descend into demonization of the group to which others belong so as to set up your level.

“I don’t deal in social media. As far as I’m involved, babarians have taken over social media and so they have swap the mental quotient which used to make and nonetheless make social media legitimate in different society. Here on this nation, social media has been dragged right down to the bottom frequent denominator.

“However, I believe in the community of the intellect of minds and creativity to rescue us from the monstrosity that the social media has become (in this country).”