Shared Culture of Oneness- Here, There and Elsewhere: What of Cultural Lag?

Surely it would have been nonsensical for Afrikan souls to have even conceived of themselves - in their natural state of highly cultured normality – to be delayed or lagging in regards to engagement in their way of life. For this primary people of creation, culture is naturally core to their lives and empowers the outwardly expressed functioning regardless of the sphere of operation. Here, neither the quickness of pace nor the slowness of pace deemed fit for life’s upright pursuits negates the core cultural substance from which the expression is energised from in the first place. Indeed, it is Afrikan people’s cultural fabric that can help guide whatever level of importance or urgency a particular life endeavour may have in service of this people’s fullest flourishing and security.

Unfortunately, in a state of interruption and disruption where Afrikan souls may be destructively set upon by others that mean the Afrikan ill, attempts to derail authentic Afrikan culture (creatively restored or otherwise) from its natural core position of centrality in Afrikan life may be afoot. In this, a sort of divisive strategy to separate Afrikan life expression from it natural core substance may be pushed and peddled via a host of vices and contaminants of ill. Somehow, for example, technological development may be seen as something separate to culture. Yet, how a people do things is naturally empowered and energised by the core of culture from which it comes.  

A contemporary mainstream source highlights the debacle in the following description as it relates to cultural lag:

“Cultural lag is a sociological phenomenon or theory that takes place when changes or advancements in material culture occur at a faster rate than changes in non-material culture. In other words, scientific progress or advancements in technology outpace the accepted values or beliefs found within a society”.

Since ‘scientific progress’ or ‘advancements in technology’ are naturally expressed from a ‘culture’, if there is an unnatural disparity between either science or technology as it is presented and the Afrikan way of life, then a useful question to ask might be: Who’s way of life is the ‘scientific progress’ or ‘advancements in technology’ being expressed from? Additionally, one may also then ask: Who’s existence does the ‘scientific progress’ or ‘advancements in technology’ beneficially serve? It may even be pertinent to ask: Who’s lives will be hampered or destructively set upon with the ‘scientific progress’ or ‘advancements in technology’?

Of course, in Afrikan souls embracing their own self-determined and authentic cultural fabric (creatively restored or otherwise) their expressed fields of science and technology will naturally reflect the imperative thrust for their continual ascension, fullest flourishing and security. Certainly, this soul people can do themselves a great service by avoiding the trap of delaying the restoration of self-determined cultured living to their lives. Indeed, each generation ought to be born and raised in authentic cultural fabric of Afrikan oneness. Putting off engagement in the natural core substance of life to be totally consumed and derailed by miseducation or other vices of ill is surely of self-detriment.

Thankfully, with the examples of the creative restoration of authentic Afrikan cultural fabric such as the exceptional example of the Nguzo Saba and the observance of Kwanzaa from which it comes, Afrikan souls here, there and elsewhere have ready access to shared levels of their cultured living. Surely, it would be worst than being a travesty for this soul people to delay civilisation or suffer from civilisation lag. After all, the phenomenon of civilisation is not of happenstance.

Kwanzaa is one of the essential cultural observances of life within the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation. The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) is an Afrikan-centred spiritual and cultural mission for ascendancy that embodies living spiritually and culturally rooted life. To find out more about URAN and its spiritual-cultural mission for liberty and nationhood click here. The exquisite URAN pendant can be obtained online by clicking here.

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