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Ignorance!! This is what destroys the man who thinks he has attained the height no one else can reach. Ignorance!!! The beginning of a fool's paradise is the kick-off of another fool's paradise. Let me not confuse you with this rhetoric.
In our search for the best in life, we come in contact with nothing in the end. The Paradise we seek, a place where there is comfort and no sorrow, no work, and no death. That's the general perspective of what a paradise could mean. For me, that's what It means and without much ado, it means the same thing to many other folks too.
Search For Paradise
Looking back to the beginning (the general biblical belief) Adam already had a paradise, if that paradise was homely enough, he won't have accepted the fruit Eve offered him. In the same way, no matter the height a man has reached, he still seeks paradise. The abnormal norms continued here and now.
Knowledge is on the increase. Thus, one envisioned paradise when attained soon becomes old-fashioned.
Lantern & Electricity
I still remembered my grandfather's oil lamp that is turned on only when it's dark. Palm oil is the fuel that keeps it burning. Of a truth, the light burns dim. With time, the paradise that was found in the oil lamp faded. People began to drift towards gas lamps and now electricity. Before we could mention Jack, solar energy is taken over. One Paradise just kept giving birth to another.
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Library & Online Books
Preparing to write exams in the 1980s, you have to spend a long time reading through the pages of books in the library. The library was a paradise for scholars then. Today, we are in another Paradise. Libraries are now being used as tourist sites 🤣😂. The internet has taken over. Books of different sizes and titles, with the aid of the internet in the comfort of your home or office or car, mention it, is what you have. I know this paradise of the internet will soon fade away. It will come to an end.
Kodak film-flip Camera and My Android Camera phone
The onslaught of the internet against what seemed to be in vogue before now is not taking me by surprise. Even Walmart that house over three hundred stores is not pitied by Amazon.
Do we call it a black moon era or a passing phase of development? Kodak, Nokia, Blackberry... had one time created a paradise or perhaps lived in a Paradise but now have been relegated to the past. To take a full image capturing of an event back they, I can't imagine the number of camera film (tabloid) a photographer will need to purchase. The story isn't the same anymore. With your phone fully charged, you can cover an even in video and photograph.
Yet, we live in a Paradise despite that we want to live in an assumed paradise where things are not the same as they are presently.
Music and film shooting
The entertainment industry is not left out on this issue. No human engagement is left out. Our banks from the war of passbook to internet banking to another era of paradise of cashless policy. Hollywood actors in America, Bollywood in India and Nollywood in Nigeria are perhaps the biggest movie industry in the world. Did you remember watching the movies Devil's Advocate, Menace II Society, Desperado, etc were shot with crude gadgets compared to how some recent movies were made.
Paradise is time and time us paradise. One time elapses and moves away with an archaic idea, a new time appears with a vogue where you tend to forget what you have cherished moments ago. That's paradise for me.