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.
Emotions are to reason what nerves are to health. If you are emotionally unaware, you are as vulnerable to injury as a part of your body with no nerves.
Cambridge Analytica got away with so much damage because they manipulated our emotions without us being aware of it. They said so themselves.
So this decade, it is important for Kenyan adults to develop the ability to name what they feel and name the stimulant of that feeling.
The other skill Kenyan adults need is the ability to see how conversation IS action.
Again, we live in a cruel propaganda where we are disempowered with the lie that there is no use speaking about something we can't do anything about.
Speaking is a form of doing something.
The last lie that Kenyans MUST grow out of is that spirituality and God are limited to Christianity and the church, and that spiritual life must be avoided at all costs because it is not empirical.
God of our ancestors, I never get why Kenyans would accept such soullessness.
Humanity needs spirituality because that is what keeps us sane, realistic about human beings (yes), and respectful of other occupants of mother Earth. Lack of spirituality leads to the soulless consumption of the environment by people who think human beings run the world.
Unlike what we were told in the name of enlightenment, spirituality and religion are also not allergic to reason. The thinking about religion is called theology.
I have an article coming out next year where I said that the Kenyan church hates theology because it hates thinking.
That is why we must reconnect with the habit of spiritually thinking about social, economic, political, educational, environmental and all aspects of life. Abandoning that work to the church has made Kenya a hyper religious but spiritually decadent society.
It is because of this soulless Kenya that we have accepted the soul-destroying curriculum of CBC. Since January 2017, I have explained and explained what is wrong with that thing and Kenyans can't understand what I'm saying because they're looking at the tangibles.
But the real damage of CBC is mental, psychological and spiritual, and Kenyans won't see it until their teenagers have mental and psychological problems in their young adulthood.
But it's because we the adults are also spiritually and psychologically tone deaf as well.
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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.
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.
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.