The CIA had done their homework when they put up Trevor Noah to give that China-Africa shpill.
They were prepared for Africans to ask "what about the US?"
Their answer is genius: "you're saying the same thing."
It's genius because it's shutting you up by agreeing with you.
If they disagreed, that would send Africans into proving how the US has decimated Africa since the days of the Cold War. It would have got more people to learn about US economic hitmen.
So it's not in US interests to disagree that the US has a more sordid history than China.
It's psyops, getting under Africans' skin through language. Manipulate us to restrict our conversation about colonialism to China but suggesting that American imperialism is obvious to everyone, so no need to discuss it.
Like really.
So people, I know how we are gaslighted through language, thanks to my experience with CBC and Cambridge Analytica. Don't mess with me. I studied useless subjects, I know how this manipulation works.
I can tell when the bourgeoisie are politely telling us to shut up. I have an antenna that has become quite good at picking it up. If I find myself disarmed by a reply like "you're saying the same thing," and if I notice more than one person saying it, najua ninabebwa. #mysecret
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A few weeks ago, I did this experiment to see if Kenyans would react the way I suspected that they would.
Unfortunately, they did not disappoint.
My criteria for assessment of counties was actually silly. I looked for two fascinating governors, then put in the last one for the sake of it. I wanted to see if people would accept to work within the idea of ranking.
And they did.
Very few saw that I was driving at something beyond the rankings. Most people fell in line. They discussed the criteria of rankings, one or two asked my qualifications to rank , but most basically accepted my rankings and just disputed the positions.
Linguistics, literature, psychology, philosophy and theology and are the most important subjects of the decade. If you spent the 2010s believing the garbage about marketable subjects, get your spirits and your minds on, dust off that side of your life and get in touch with it.
Educated Kenyans have been brainwashed on Enlightenment garbage about STEM and entrepreneurship and have completely no sense of how they are being manipulated through their emotional, psychological and spiritual side. That cluelessness has made Kenyan life cruel and soulless.
We are living in a cruel irony where politicians and media manipulate our emotions but in class we are told the emotions interfere with reason. So Kenyans are unable to notice cruelty and trauma, especially when they experience it through language and bureaucracy.
We Kenyans multi-task every day. We endure abuse from bosses, we go to manage CBC homework with the kids. Ati you cant serve us because we have so many documents and you are so stupid that you can only manage with one #hudumanamba?
Kuweni serious.
First of all, is #hudumanamba going to give us services GoK is withdrawing from? You privatized hospitals and universities. You are shipping trained Kenyans to work abroad. You're always telling as "pirate sector" nyef nyef, we're even wondering what a government is for.
You're not hiring teachers, you're torturing the few we have with paperwork, you gave us a junk promise that laptops would teach children, and those machines are useless.
You are withdrawing from providing services but telling us that #hudumanamba will ease service delivery?
How do we remove this political ideology that one can "improve people's standards of living" by force? Even the colonialists said that they were here for Africans' own good. Conservationists steal our land for our own good. @StateHouseKenya@StandardKenya standardmedia.co.ke/national/artic…
A posh, club hopping and globe trotting kid can't know what Uhuru Park meant for kanairo. On Sundays that place was full with families because there is barely any green and free recreation space. Then they baricaded and dug up the place and ignored our questions.
So all those families were violently dispersed without an interim alternative.
Surely you can't expect us to believe that that was for our own good.
The 0.1% seem to have no clue what dignity means for human beings.
I've learned that when GoK says people cannot do A if they don't have B, it's not a declaration of enforcement. It's a license to terror. GoK wants us to walk around afraid of being stopped and asked for B. GoK is giving police the license to harass us. Or worse.
The directive is also for the benefit of Western donors and scholars. If you look at international documents and even published research, everything GoK announces is taken at face value and Kenya is depicted as the sweetest kid on the planet. GoK loves international optics.
Either we destroy the entire school system, from ECD to university, or we create alternative avenues to knowledge acquisition and certification.
There are no two ways about it. The monopoly of the colonial school system is destroying us. #CBCmustfall#TeachandGoHomeKE
Our colonial school system, run from Jogoo House, cheats administrators and teachers that we're SOOOOO important, that Kenyans cannot succeed without going through the nonsense we teach and the violence with which we cane.
We educators a reality check. We're not gods.
This arrogance has made us build inspectorates upon inspectorates. We're wasting so much money on torturing and monitoring teachers, on exams and on verification of qualifications. The money we spend on this bs, useless work could go to libraries, innovation, sports and the arts.