Of Kenyans’ Collective Myopia & Selective Amnesia
I elect to be a last laugher this time round. This I do with regard to the political conundrum that the country has been in over the past one or so months. My reasons for taking a back seat and letting things play out are well documented right here in this blog. If Karl Marx was alive in Kenya today, he surely would not opine that religion is opium for the masses. He would replace ‘religion’ with ‘politics’. Though not for all. With no further ado, here is my 5-point 2 cents on the ‘ai ii bi sii' IEBC-out heatwave : 1. The vulgarity that was exhibited by bigwigs from whichever political divide is just a mirror of the values (or are they vices?) that we, as the Kenyan society, hold high and close at heart. A stinking morass of morals and social norms. According to one Aristotle, Society produces what it has, no? 2. The 2013 election was probably the best and most advanced Kenya ever held, but not the best there could ever be. As Sir Winston Churchill put it, 's