The Material Society

Summary

このスクリプトでは、ケニアの社会、国家、政治、そして個人的な問題の根本原因として物質主義を指摘しています。物質主義は自己を超える視野の欠如であり、哲学的な洞察を妨げるものだと述べています。ナイロビの樹木の減少、政治プロセスにおける党規律の弱さ、そして教育システムの問題など、多岐にわたる問題に物質主義が関与している例を挙げています。ケニアの人々は、物質主義から抜け出し、哲学的な思考を取り戻すことで、個人や社会の成長を促す必要があると結び付けています。

Takeaways

• 🌳 ナイヤベイ周辺での木々の消失とその破壊は、簡単な契約として与えられる金銭的な手助けのために行われている。
• 🏛 政治プロセスにおける党の規律は、財政的な手助けを通じてのみ維持されており、これは物質主義の影響を示している。
• 📢 物質主義はケニアの教育、政治、環境保護など、多岐にわたる社会問題の根本原因となっている。
• 🧩 物質主義は、人々が自分自身や哲学的な視点を超えず、単純な生理的欲求にとらわれることをもたらしている。
• 🌾 農業分野では、なぜ特定の作物を育てるのかという哲学的な問いが失われ、市場の需要にのみ従っている。
• 🐄 牧畜民や彼らの環境への影響は、観光業のロマンチックなアフリカのイメージに適合しないため、環境保護の分野で否定的に見られている。
• 🏞️ 環境保護は、哲学的な思考の欠如により、外国人の観光需要に基づいて行われていることが多く、ケニア人の視点が欠けている。
• 📚 アカデミアにおいても、外部の視点に基づく「アフリカ研究」が行われ、ケニア自身の視点に基づく研究は不足している。
• 🌐 物質主義は、グローバルスタンダードや市場主導の教育に陥り、ケニア独自のアイデンティティを形成する能力を奪っている。
• 💡 物質主義から抜け出し、哲学的な思考を取り戻すことが、ケニア社会の成長と発展の鍵である。
• 🔍 個人や社会が進むためには、自分たちが何をするために、なぜその方法で行動するのかを理解する必要がある。

Q & A

ケニアの社会、国家、政治、そして個人的な問題の根本原因は何だと考えられますか？

マテリアルイズムがケニアの多くの問題の根本原因だと考えられています。マテリアルイズムとは、自己を超える視野を持たず、物質的な面にしか目を向けないことが指されます。

マテリアルイズムがケニアの教育システムにどのような影響を与えていますか？

マテリアルイズムは教育システムにおいて哲学的な問題を解決するのではなく、物質的な解決策を求める傾向を強めています。

ナイロビ周辺での樹木の減少はなぜ起こっていると述べられていますか？

ナイロビ周辺での樹木の減少は、樹木を伐採することで簡単に金銭的な手助けが与えられるためです。特に、資格や特別な技能は必要ないため、許可を得ることですぐに行うことができます。

政治プロセスにおける党の規律はなぜ問題になっていますか？

党の規律は、政治家が党の線を追わない場合に議院委員会から除外されることで党の指導者によって強制されていますが、これは委員会で支払われる手当てが原因です。

マテリアルイズムがケニアの政治にどのような影響を与えていますか？

マテリアルイズムは政治家たちに基本的な生理的需要にとらわれ、彼らが持っているべき以上のものを追求するように仕向けています。

マテリアルイズムが個人の生活に与える影響とは何ですか？

マテリアルイズムは人生の季節感を失わせ、人々がいつまでも物質的な利益を追求し続けることを招きます。

ケニアの農業におけるマテリアルイズムの影響は何ですか？

マテリアルイズムは農民がなぜその作物を育てるべきかを理解せず、政府の指導や市場の需要に従って作物を育てるように仕向けています。

マテリアルイズムがケニアの環境保護に与える影響とは何ですか？

マテリアルイズムは環境保護において、哲学的な理由を追求するのではなく、外国人の観光需要に基づいて野生動物を保護するように仕向けています。

ケニアの教育において「市場需要に応じた課程」の考え方には何が問題点ですか？

「市場需要に応じた課程」は教育を市場の不条理な需要に従わせるためで、学生が自分の道を模索するのではなく、市場のトレンドに流されるように仕向けます。

マテリアルイズムがケニアの文化やアイデンティティに与える影響は何ですか？

マテリアルイズムはケニアの人々が自己アイデンティティを失い、外国人の視点や市場の需要に基づいて自分たちを見定めるよう仕向けています。

ケニアの社会がマテリアルイズムから抜け出すために何が必要だと思いますか？

ケニアの社会がマテリアルイズムから抜け出すためには、個人が自分自身の行動の哲学的な理由を理解し、それに満足する必要があります。

Outlines

00:00

🌳 物質主義がケニアの諸問題の根幹

第1段落では、ケニアの社会、国家、政治、さらには個人の問題の根本原因として物質主義が指摘されています。物質主義は自己の視野を超える能力の欠如を意味し、ナイロビ周辺で木々の乱切りが行われていること、政治プロセスにおける党の規律の弱さ、議員の委員会への参加が報酬につながることなどがその影響を示しています。また、物質主義は人々の本能的欲求に驅られており、これは政治家や政府高官の振る舞いにまで及んでいます。

05:02

🏵 物質主義による人生の季節感の失墜

第2段落では、物質主義が人生の季節感を喪失させたと述べています。政治家や政府職員が健康を犠牲にしてまで地位や金銭を追求し、農民がなぜ特定の作物を育てるのか理由を理解していないことが挙げられます。物質主義は農業や保守部門にまで影響を及ぼし、ケニアの自然保護のためには哲学的な視点が必要であると主張しています。

10:02

🎓 教育と自己認識の欠如

第3段落では、教育における物質主義の影響について議論されています。アフリカ研究や国際基準、グローバル基準への執着が、ケニアの教育者や学者が外部の視点にとらわれることを示しています。また、教育を受けた人々が実際にその知識を応用していないこと、保守部門における牧畜民への偏見が物質主義の結果であると指摘されています。

15:05

🌐 物質主義とグローバリズムの克服

第4段落では、物質主義とグローバリズムを克服し、個人や社会の成長を目指すことが求められています。ケニアの農民や教育者、保守論者などが自分の職業や活動に深い哲学的意義を持たねばならないと強調しています。物質主義は、人々の思考と行動を支配しており、これはケニアが知的成長を阻んでいると述べています。

Keywords

💡マテリアルズム

マテリアルズムとは、物質的な利益や所有物を重視する考え方を指します。このビデオでは、マテリアルズムがケニアの社会、政治、教育などの多面的な問題の根本原因となっていると主張しています。マテリアルズムは自己中心的な考え方を促進し、哲学的思考や長期的な視野を見失わせてしまうと指摘しています。

💡教育システム

教育システムは、社会の知識や価値観を伝える重要な機関です。ビデオでは、教育システムにおける哲学的な問題と物質的な解決策の間で対立があり、マテリアルズムが教育の質に影響を与えていると述べています。

💡森林破壊

ビデオでは、ナイロビ周辺で起こる森林破壊がマテリアルズムの影響を受けている例として挙げられています。樹木が簡単に削減されるのは、物質的な利益を得るためであり、それが政治的な手引きとして使われることもあります。

💡政治プロセス

政治プロセスは、国民の意志を反映し、国家の方向を決定するメカニズムです。ビデオでは、政治プロセスがマテリアルズムによって腐敗しており、政党の指導者たちは物質的な報酬を通じて党の規律を強制していると指摘しています。

💡報酬

報酬は、ビデオ内でマテリアルズムの象徴として提唱されています。政治家や公務員が報酬を追求することで、原則や公共の利益を犠牲にすることが問題視されています。

💡自己認識の欠如

ビデオでは、ケニアが自己認識の欠如に苦しみ、マテリアルズムがその原因となっていると述べています。自己認識の欠如は、国民が自分の文化や価値観を理解せず、外部の価値観に依存する原因とされています。

💡農業

農業は、ビデオ内でマテリアルズムの影響下にあるケニアの経済活動の例として挙げられています。農民たちはなぜその作物を育てるのかを理解せず、市場や政府の指示に従っていると批判されています。

💡環境保護

環境保護は、ビデオ内でマテリアルズムが自然保護の哲学的根拠を失わせたと指摘されています。野生動物の保護は、外国人の観光需要に基づくものであり、ケニア人の哲学的思考とは関係がないと主張されています。

💡グローバリズム

グローバリズムは、ビデオ内で外部の価値観や基準に依存する考え方を指し、マテリアルズムと組み合わさってケニアの独自のアイデンティティを損なっていると述べています。

💡教育の市場主導

教育の市場主導は、ビデオ内で教育システムが市場の需要に応じて形成されるべきではないと主張されています。教育は独自の道を模索し、その後市場に適応するべきだとしています。

💡哲学的思考

哲学的思考は、ビデオ内でマテリアルズムから抜け出し、ケニア社会を前進させるための鍵とされています。個人や社会がなぜその行動をとるのかを理解し、内部から納得できる理由を持つことが重要だと強調されています。

Highlights

The speaker identifies materialism as the root cause of various social, national, and political problems in Kenya.

Materialism is described as an inability to see beyond oneself or think philosophically.

The unnecessary destruction of trees in Nairobi is linked to materialistic motives for financial handouts.

Political party discipline in Kenya is enforced through material incentives like allowances and trips abroad.

The speaker criticizes the focus on material gains in Kenya's highest political organs.

Senator Gloria Rober's suspension is mentioned as an example of materialism's influence in politics.

Materialism is said to eliminate the concept of life seasons, causing individuals to continuously chase material gains.

The speaker argues that Kenyans should question why they engage in certain activities, such as farming.

The coffee industry in Kenya is criticized for being controlled by cartels, to the detriment of farmers.

Conservation efforts are criticized for being driven by external interests rather than internal philosophical reasons.

The speaker calls for a philosophical understanding of conservation, rather than just biological considerations.

The tourism and wildlife sector is criticized for prioritizing external perceptions over local realities.

The speaker argues against the adoption of 'African studies' as it is influenced by external mindsets.

The pursuit of 'International standards' and 'Global standards' is critiqued for lacking a Kenyan perspective.

The speaker emphasizes the need for self-identity and philosophical thinking in education and academia.

Materialism is blamed for the lack of satisfaction in the work that Kenyans do and the education they receive.

The speaker calls for a shift away from materialistic thinking to philosophical reasoning in all aspects of life.

The importance of understanding one's actions and motivations is stressed as a solution to Kenya's problems.

The speaker concludes by advocating for the integration of philosophy in daily life to build a stronger society.

Transcripts

hi everyone today I'd like to talk about

what I think

is the root cause of so many of our

social National political even

individual problems in Kenya and this is

materialism just this morning A friend

of mine was talking on a radio show

about problems with our education

system and she kept going on and on

about

philosophical problems as she sees them

and the the interviewers kept asking her

about the

material material uh perspective

material

Solutions and this sort of underscores

our problem as a

Nation Kenya we are too

materialist and and just just to break

this down materialism is not the simple

thing we we think it is it is it is the

inability to see beyond oneself the

inability to to see things

philosophically and and an example is a

simple example is this I've I've I've

long been baffled by the diminishing

tree cover around Nairobi and the

Relentless destructions of of trees in

the city and I asked someone in the know

about why why this unnecessary

destruction is go goes

on and I was shocked when when he told

me that a lot of trees are destroyed

because it's the easiest contract you

can give someone if you want to give a

financial

handout and because you don't need he

told me you don't need qualif any

qualification to cut down a tree um you

don't you don't need you don't need any

any special skills or or uh engineering

skills Etc you only need the permit and

the power saw or whatever equipment and

then it can be done instantly because it

can be passed through the emergency

channels by saying that tree is

dangerously overhanging a road or

something because you realize all the

trees that are being cut down and near

roads you see it's dangerously

overhanging a road and you need to go

because it will fall and crash on some

cow or something and simple as that the

tree

goes and and if you look at an example

like the Fig famous fig tree in

Westlands that was to be cut down when

they were building the expressway there

was a human and cry and it wasn't cut

down the expressway got built exactly as

planned and that tree is still standing

today it wasn't obstructing

anything but someone needed that small

Financial handout that's just that's

just one example the other thing is even

our political

processes um political party discipline

is is something of of of an ongoing joke

in Kenya but the only way this semblance

is is enforced by Party leaders is

through parliamentary

committees in that in that any any

member who doesn't tow the party line

gets removed from parliamentary

committees and I used to wonder like

what who cares if you have your

principle why should a committee um a

committee seat have have any hold on you

and then I then I was later told that

it's because of the C allowances that

people on these committees are paid

heavily over and above their very

generous parliamentary salaries not to

mention they have trips abroad um with

these committees to go and Benchmark in

one some place or the other and this is

such a basic it's our even our highest

our highest organs in this country are

driven by the most base instincts the

the the going on there are driven by

physiological needs and there's an

ongoing case right now where um a

senator Gloria robber is under

suspension for making some allegations

of um of uh sexual harassment or or

inappropriate behavior by officials in

the house she couldn't she didn't

substantiate them so I'm not sure if

it's true or not but the allegations

were based on on

allowances and travel and

pdms and really you it's it's it's a

very alarming sort of IND indictment of

our of the quality we have as a people

that people who have so much and are so

high up there are still cannot get away

from their base Instinct very basic

physiological Instinct and and this this

is one of the most harmful things about

materialism it eliminates Seasons from

our

lives our lives should have seasons

there are seasons when you are young

you're young you're running around after

this that the other there Seasons when

you become mature you become a parent

some even economic Seasons there are

seasons when when one is sort of

comfortable economically some even very

wealthy and and now stop chasing every

little penny here and there but our

materialism has completely eliminated

these Seasons I don't need to name any

of them but we all know of very very old

politicians who keep chasing bits of

land bits of money parliamentary seats

even to the detriment of their health

same thing with even government

officials this why we don't have these

seasons and if we look at if we look at

materialism it is the reason why very

few of us actually know what we why we

do what we do farmers grow crops that

they they they don't know why they grow

that crop they found people growing it

the government tells them to grow it Etc

um and an example is coffee the deputy

president

recently basically said that the cartels

running the coffee industry are

immovable and he isn't able to overcome

them and obviously that's very

disappointing to Farmers but from the

individual level of the farmer you must

ask yourself that why does the deputy

president's effort success or failure

determine what I do I mean why do you

grow

coffee um coffee grows in very fertile

uh fertile and and moist areas I can

name 10 or 20 food crops very profitable

very nutritious

and and very easy to grow that can grow

in these areas where coffee grows but we

still stick with the coffee same with

the other cash crops which is the whole

system of production of these cash crops

was set up to in some quy slavery type

structure where there are cartels that

control the marketing and value addition

and black people are just the production

we were just the

the the elbow grease if you can call it

or the labor and we were never meant to

get wealthy from growing these cash

crops the Brokers Were Meant to get

wealthy and our country would earn some

foreign exchange Etc but we we we don't

we very rarely think like that so we are

growing

coffee tea even flowers for exports on

fertile lands while our government

Imports food stuffs for people to

eat that's materialism for you cuz we

don't think about why we doing what we

are doing if we look at the conservation

sector where I come from we have that

very strange Ministry called tourism and

Wildlife it means that even our state is

unable to Fathom a philosophical reason

for conserving Wildlife other than the

fact that some foreign people want to

come and see

it uh or photograph it or or even back

in the 70s used to come to shoot them

and carry off their tasks or skins or

whatever

what about the invisible quote unquote

invisible animals like an advac why

should we conserve ad very few Africans

even local people get to be lucky enough

to see one certain T very tourists don't

see them should we just kill all the

adars or the fish under the sea or the

snakes or the stuff they don't see but

that philosophical thinking completely

escapes

us that's why that's why if you go even

even into the main hall of the national

museums of Kenya you'll find all these

the centerpieces is is mild animals um

mounted

animals and they're beautiful animals

but that's not what's special about

Kenya this the same zebra that we have

in Tanzania or South Africa or

wherever the same elephant same same

giraffes we even have an oapi in that

centerpiece an oapi which is not even a

Kenyan animal but that's that's because

those are the

things the external gaze especially the

Western external gaze finds cute or

interesting about our country they don't

care about the people but that's that

repository should be for us and about us

and what we think about

ourselves but if you look at it even in

Academia we have this strange thing

called African

studies what is African studies in the

context of an African

scholar I mean you can't have fish

studying ethology or an insect studying

entomology so what's African studies to

an African we should just that should

just be sociology or anthropology but we

call it African studies because we are

stuck in the external mindset in this

country um we want to approach our we

even want to approach ourselves the way

foreigners approach us that's why

everywhere you go you hear this strange

thing we call International standards

Global standards Global This Global that

but these Global things we are pursuing

are completely irrelevant if we do not

have our own perspective from which

we're pursuing them and that is that is

the most unique thing I found in I've

found out in recent years about Kenya

the complete holess the absence of

self-identity that that uh that uh that

uh pollutes all our thinking and that is

the materialism

and that's why when we talking about um

education we talk about Market driven

courses the market is the market uses

uses knowledge the market can't drive

knowledge the market is

illogical like what C or fashion it's

illogical if you following the market

you will never have any path of your

own

you must have your path and then adjust

yourself to the

market and many of us many of us and

this is where this is where the

so-called educated class in this country

let let down the rest there are a lot of

people who went through education got

qualifications but what you're doing now

is not exactly what you are taught in

class in fact my my philosophical

understanding of conservation

and my teaching in conservation is in

spite of what I was taught in

class what I was taught in class about

conservation is

rubbish it had no philosophy it treated

conservation as

biology yet right now I'm talking about

philosophy and policy and this is what

this is what I do now and we have to we

have to be able to pass that thinking On

to the Next Generation but we are the

one tell ones who tell them you must do

Market driven Market driven courses I

don't know if you're going to teach

because if you look at what are the

fastest growing businesses in Kenya

gambling maybe Car Wash

um and uh and uh Mir trade how come we

not teaching anything in class about cow

wash

techniques or or gambling or Crusades

religion is also growing why we teaching

about religious Crusade management

Masters or MBA

because these These are these are just

things that happen around us they can't

we can't follow them these are trends

that happen around us we can't follow

them as as as as we try to try and chart

out our our life's path

so Kenyans at all

levels we have to escape from this

material type of

thinking we we must Farmers must

understand why you're growing what

you're growing materialism is the reason

why the conservation sector hates

pastoralists and

pastoralism it's because the pastor

lists do not fit into the Romantic Out

of Africa image that we are trying to

sell out there yet pastol lists are the

have the lightest environmental

footprint of anyone in this country

probably the world their footprint is so

light that the areas where they live

visitors come there and think there's

nobody who lives

there that's how light the environmental

footprint is but we do not want to see

their animals in and around the world

life because the tourists don't like

that I've said this over and over again

if you don't want to see

samburu goats and camels and and

cows then don't come to

samburu if you don't want to see M

people and their livestock or doing

their thing don't come to Messi Mara

when you talk of Messi Mara that word

Massi there that's people the mara is

the

river but we cannot Embrace this philos

philosophically so now we have this

strange thing called the conserva

movement that you keep hearing this

strange word people giving their land

for

conservation this is people being

displaced from their land to serve the

external

gaze any tourist who loves Kenya that

much should come and see the world life

in and amongst the people where wherever

it is their the people with the world

life so we must get a philosophical

standing even the species that we have

here the person who declares them

endangered or least concern or

critically endangered is sitting in

Switzerland at

iucn where they have no

wildlife

this materialists and globalism is the

reason why we we we are so far behind

intellectually behind where we should be

capitalism is

Evil by definition is violent but it has

an aim it aims to make profit

materialism is that like the

younger brother of of

capitalism it it just worships

lucrative material and and appearance of

material uh

wealth it doesn't have a name on how to

make it or whatever that's why we take

advice from people like Bill Gates on

everything agriculture Health uh women's

reproductive Health population coid he

advises us on everything except computer

software which is actually what he knows

something about but it's because he's

wealthy and we are materialist

so we must grow out of this mold if we

are to grow as a society so I think and

people the materialism is what makes us

keep asking this what I think is a

really dumb question what's your

solution what's your solution what's

your solution everyone ask for a

solution like want me to tell you

download this app

no the app is Right within us it's your

brain we need to use that so the

solution if for those who are so in love

with this word is everybody must try

understand why he he or she does what

they do a farmer should understand why

they keep goats or cows and why they

grow this crop or that crop and they

need to be satisfied internally with

that you have to be satisfied with what

your kid is doing in school you have to

be

satisfied not the teacher you have to

engage the teacher and tell him if

you're not satisfied and and you pursue

that you have to be satisfied with with

the work you do the people you help the

thoughts you have not because every we

can't have this hard mentality where we

follow something because everyone does

it so we have to bring philosophy back

into our lives down to even basic things

like what why we eat what we

eat in Kenya we even eat things because

people are currently eating these things

I've seen Trends in food like Moringa

and all these fun things suddenly

everyone's eating this everyone's

drinking this what do you

want why do you want it so let's bring

philosophy into our lives I think then

we'll build from an individual basis and

eventually eventually our society will

grow but right now we are running on a

treadmill we don't know where we are

going lots of effort lots of resources

but going nowhere just like the

treadmill in the gym