Where should we place the lapse of moral values in the Nigerian socio-political life?
Now, morality does not hang in the air! Morality is super-structural. The dominant ideas of good and bad which is what morality is all about are determined by the types of economic structures that you have. If the economic structures enable people to make minimum efforts for maximum gains or advantage, then, the dominant morality would reflect that particular ethos. A capitalistic ethos is to appropriate as much as you can from what should ideally belong to all of us. Whereas, if you restructure your economy to emphasise the needs and interests of the preponderant majority, then the dominant morality in such a setting would be utilitarian. Okay, you want to advance the interests of the greatest majority and the greatest happiness of the greatest number, so people would see one another as friends, comrades or even brothers. But if live in a capitalistic ethos, the rules of the tomb is beggar-thy-neighbour; dog eats dog, everybody for himself, the devil takes the hindermost. So, the domi
