Change and credible criticism

by

Noel Ihebuzor

1. The possibility of alternation is one of the biggest benefits of democracy, but meaningful alternation is reason and cost benefit analysis driven.
2. Change is often mistaken for a “replace with anything” sell & mindset. That is not change. Change is value adding & positive.
3. If it is not value adding, then it is not and cannot be change.
4. Some folks believe that the surest way to market themselves as change agents is to engage in endless criticisms of those in power.
5. They criticize, trivialize and oppose whatever it is that the person in power does.
6. Such an attitude and mindset soon give rise to a malignancy which I call serial opposition disorder, SOD.
7. SOD as a malignancy leads to the spawning of mindless and non-credible criticisms.
8. To be credible criticisms must be context sensitive and more importantly provide valid and feasible alternative lines of action.
9. Non-credible and invalid criticisms are usually driven by spite, ignorance, ambition, bias, arrogance and selfishness.