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Post by nok on Jan 24, 2013 15:23:44 GMT 3
podp thank you sir. I now have a better idea; It's guys on twitter, FB ; Jukwaa et al.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 24, 2013 20:01:12 GMT 3
Otishotish, As a tribute to Balzac, I am thinking of composing a two part and starting a thread called: THE SHAM NATION, THE KENYAN COMEDY! nok says the struggle between good and evil is engrained in our DNA and transcends the unconcious into the concious, and is eternal. But your learned friend Omwenga, looking at the evil of rigging and electoral malpractice in Nyanza, says that is water under the bridge, while many ODM luminares have been forced to flee and take refuge in far-away Nairobi! ---Why does evil get such an easy win from Omwenga?Did you know that Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer of the famous Government Inspector, made such a business of ridiculing the working class, which was the (historically) idolised class for official communist Soviet ideology, that he was countermanded for being counter revolutionary! He said: the working [Russian] class want one thing: to work on your wife, daughter and pocket! Then your death celebrate with Vodka! --Interestingly he was drunk when he said this! Confronted with it when sober, he grinned at the police: I said that when drunk? I need to get drunk everyday and have you guys as my secretaries noting my speech! I sometimes wonder what a drunk Gogol would say about the Luo middle class! Problem is that thins middle class Kamalet was never going to join the holloi polloi in day long queues to cast his vote for Gakuo. No novelist has ever come close to Balzac in a study of social classes (and of human psychology for that matter). His general conclusion is that the "middle class" is the toughest class to be in: Those at the bottom can only suck up. And those at the top have to worry only about those trying to get up, where they don't belong; so they have to kick down. But in the middle, they have two problems: One, they have to suck up in order to get up. Two, because is no point in getting up if everybody else is coming along too, they have to kick down at the same time as they are sucking up. In Paris, at Balzac's time, the lowest classes are just as depraved as the upper classes. The lower classes get punished for it, because someone must be punished; and the upper classes get away with exactly the same depravities, because they are ... well, upper. The middle class is the real headache! Definitely not revolutionary material. Plus, not only are they busy sucking up and kicking down ... because they do not freely enjoy the depravities that other classes (for different reasons) enjoy, they are essentially and always unhappy---always living in the future, when they will "arrive", and very envious that everyone else (both the despised lower-class riff-raff and the envied upper-class aristocracy) seems to be having one heck of a fun-life and in this lifetime! And always having to make sure that the lower f***kers stay low. Remember that old song? Clowns to the left, jokers to the right, and here I am stuck in the middle ... yes, I am taking liberties with the musician's "vision", but you get the idea---everyone's else is .... but the middle! So it is with life, even in Kenya, in the 21st ... Insist on your daily dose of chang'aa, and you have a problem. Insist of your daily dose of the best single-malt whiskey, and you have good taste. In between, chang'aa is not allowed, and the single-malt is unaffordable. Right there are grounds for a revolution .... except it's the middles class! And so on, and so forth. Dot dot dot. Etc. etc. etc. The point: by "definition" the so-called middle-class must often be conservative. Yes, they might want change, but see above---change in a certain direction and for a certain segment. Can't have too much change, for too many people! (And that's what you get in a revolution) To the extent that they will allow for an "error-margin", it will be on the side of the "status-quo". Whereas some uppers might wish for a revolution, for the"change"---simply because even the most mindless excesses and depravities eventually become boring--the last thing the middle wants in any change that helps the lowers (unless it's a bigger change for the middle, but not too many middle elements!). That might narrow the gap between the lowers and the middle, and the uppers might not be too happy looking at this growing horde at its gates! A proper revolution requires at least: (a) A mass of the lower classes; after all, someone has to actually revolt and burn and loot or ... whatever is necessary according to the time and place. In particular, if blood must be shed, then ... fodder for the cannons. (b) Inspiring slogans ideology or desperation for (a). (c) A few (not too many!) elements ready to burst out of the middle and into the upper; if blood is to be shed, then there is no danger of there being too many elements from the middle ... (d) A few elements of the uppers, to assist, by way of betrayal; there is never much danger that there willbe too many traitors. Note the "few" in (b): if none are available, the middle is entirely dispensable, and the necessary elements will be found in (a). Interestingly, though, Balzac has a few good words for the middle class, after all: He maintains that French aristocracy atrophied because it did not replenish its stock and so became too "incestuous". In his view, a nation needs some people to do the serious work as well as provide some "high-quality" renewal, and who better than the new rough-and-ready, ambitious arrivals from the middle class. So, there you have it: one for the middle class---not revolutionary material, not entirely ready for the upper leagues, but they will work and procreate (properly and in moderation) ! Oh, I just remembered the point I was heading for ... In a country like Kenya, the significance of the middle class will always be determined by whether they have suffered enough. (This is in contrast with the lower classes, who are always suffering.) By the early 1990s, Kenya's middle was really feeling the pain, and that was very clear; but there wasn't enough pain for them to actually do what needed to be done. So Moi kept going. Another ten years, and enough was enough. Something had to be done. Even those who didn't love each other had to unite. Kenya needs to have a fundamental shift, but that is not going to happen until people have suffered enough. And that essentially means the middle: the lower classes are always suffering, and the uppers are always getting on with whatever they do. But in a place like Kenya right now, change (real change) will come when the middle has suffered enough to co-opt the lowers (supply of sweat and blood) and a few uppers (betrayal and keys to the secret lockers). We aren't there yet. P.S. Near the end of his life, Balzac, reflecting on the times of his life, decided to give his works one collective title--- The Human Comedy. And here we are, now we are enjoying a subset of that---the Kenyan Comedy.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 24, 2013 20:11:32 GMT 3
jakaswanga ;D Our Kikuyu brethren played it differently. -> That is why when all dust settles one sees that the Kibaki ;read Golf buddies; court is not made of pseudo messengers (elected). The trick may lie in separation of Ying and Yang. I hope you get what I mean I was not born to write ;D Nok, Could it be that our gikuyu brothers having been in power during the Kenyatta regime, had learnt a few things about the etiquette of power? the need for... discrete... not too ebullient trappings displayed with impunity? Or did I miss you totally? ;D [//] A Luo put it like this: marwani wadwaro donjoe gi agoko ahinya, horeuru nyikwa ma! --Easy, lake people, we are entering this with too much thorax! [That is the shameful rigging in Nyanza hinted at a cannibalistic frenzy in waiting!] [//] You know when at certain thread you talked of the campus where the hippo resides, it took me some time to decipher! something near the system which may not be in limbo! ;D So I was reading carefully, aware Nok can be a minefield!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 24, 2013 20:29:56 GMT 3
Kenya needs to have a fundamental shift, but that is not going to happen until people have suffered enough. And that essentially means the middle: the lower classes are always suffering, and the uppers are always getting on with whatever they do. But in a place like Kenya right now, change (real change) will come when the middle has suffered enough to co-opt the lowers (supply of sweat and blood) and a few uppers (betrayal and keys to the secret lockers). We aren't there yet.. There is a dangerous twist to this inability of the middle class to incorporate the rubble. Most Kenya towns are actually siege cities at night. The fear of crime --the car-jack, mugging as one waits for the front gate to open; easy murder even for a phone, remind the middle class just what is at stake. And rules their lives. Restricting it to the levels of morbidity. A friend from a leafy estate refused one day to drive me to Kayole in broad daylight! he said: they will just take my car or slash the tires!
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Post by OtishOtish on Jan 24, 2013 21:11:05 GMT 3
There is a dangerous twist to this inability of the middle class to incorporate the rubble. Most Kenya towns are actually siege cities at night. The fear of crime --the car-jack, mugging as one waits for the front gate to open; easy murder even for a phone, remind the middle class just what is at stake. And rules their lives. Restricting it to the levels of morbidity! It is astonishing, and I observe it every time I am at home. It's got to the point where, if I am in a city, I'd rather stay in the "rougher" areas, because, then, I am not subject to curfew hours ... even in boarding-school one could stay out later than one can in some of these places. The "well-to-do" folk work hard during the day and then come home to a prison-like life: get home before dark, close the gates, and don't venture out until daylight! One of my relatives hardly ever allows visitors---on the grounds that they might see the good stuff in his house and direct the robbers there! (And that's with the razor-wire fence, several dogs, and a watchman.) What a life. Few of the "well-to-do" seem to realize that in a more equitable society, they might have less but life might be less stressful.
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Post by kamalet on Jan 24, 2013 22:22:51 GMT 3
Kenya needs to have a fundamental shift, but that is not going to happen until people have suffered enough. And that essentially means the middle: the lower classes are always suffering, and the uppers are always getting on with whatever they do. But in a place like Kenya right now, change (real change) will come when the middle has suffered enough to co-opt the lowers (supply of sweat and blood) and a few uppers (betrayal and keys to the secret lockers). We aren't there yet.. There is a dangerous twist to this inability of the middle class to incorporate the rubble. Most Kenya towns are actually siege cities at night. The fear of crime --the car-jack, mugging as one waits for the front gate to open; easy murder even for a phone, remind the middle class just what is at stake. And rules their lives. Restricting it to the levels of morbidity. A friend from a leafy estate refused one day to drive me to Kayole in broad daylight! he said: they will just take my car or slash the tires! Jakaswanga It is worse in the leafy suburbs with regard to security and many other things. You will find it very interesting if are a tweep and visited #kemiddleclassproblems on twitter. The middle class deals with issues that the common mwananchi that goes to queue for nominations cannot understand!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 24, 2013 23:34:25 GMT 3
The middle class deals with issues that the common mwananchi that goes to queue for nominations cannot understand! tHIS is a bit too cryptic bwana kamale! open it up! ;D
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Post by nok on Jan 25, 2013 20:26:56 GMT 3
jakaswangaA nilotic character has the sense of loyalty engraved within their mortal souls. The global world of today in comparison to yest er years feeds from the decline of this trait. In many ways, this onetime virtue has emancipated to become a hindrance in the process of collective evolvement. Above ! seen and guided by the theme of this eloquent subject that you brought up, here, described by the simple and only sentence of this page in BOLD=CAPITALS.
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Post by OtishOtish on Jan 26, 2013 6:53:31 GMT 3
I would argue that the “riff raff” in this case, were the heroes. But I wouldn’t rush to diss the middle class because they were engaging in a new form of soft politics — conversational democracy. podp: I get you, and I largely agree. To be continued later ... I have no problems with "conversational democracy", but the idea reminded me of this song that one of my student-days mzungu friends was very fond of: A little less conversation; a little more action, please.A little story: Back when Obama started campaigning to be president, I had one group-discussion that is still in my mind. It was a real UN sort of group---different nations, different religions, etc. We all thought that H. Clinton had a better chance than Obama, but it wouldn't make any difference because the USA wasn't "ready" to break the "barrier": another 20 years, then a Jewish man might have a chance; another 20 years, then a white woman; another ... Most of us in the group had some direct (and in some cases, extensive) experiences of The Land of Opportunity. But we weren't there then, and one of the things we missed was the extent to which they felt enough was enough (under Dubya), and they were ready from change, even if it came from ... as Jesse Jackson put it, in his own presidential campaigns: from the Outhouse to the White House!In Kenya today, TRIBE is king. And it has to be a BIG tribe; the tinker-toy ones better know their place, but, of course, they are welcome to support the BIG ones. And forget the "Indians", the "Arabs", the "Somalis", ... although if they have cash to spare, then why not. So, I've been wondering: how long will it take before Kenyans decide that enough is enough, and they will elect the people who seem most capable of doing right by them?
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Post by nok on Jan 26, 2013 12:21:41 GMT 3
jakaswangaA nilotic character has the sense of loyalty engraved within their mortal souls. The global world of today in comparison to yest er years feeds from the decline of this trait. In many ways, this onetime virtue has emancipated to become a hindrance in the process of collective evolvement. Above ! seen and guided by the theme of this eloquent subject that you brought up, here, described by the simple and only sentence of this page in BOLD=CAPITALS. Amazing telepathy www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000075892&pageNo=2&story_title=Kenya-After-polls,-we-slay-the-kingmaker
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 26, 2013 17:33:49 GMT 3
Garcia Marquez, in his 'Autumn of the Patriarch' spins a horrific story that is unlikely to be similar to anything you have read before. It is a fantastic description of the rotten guts of tyranny. 'Autumn of the Patriarch' isn't really meant to be a 'pleasant' read. It is a grim portrait of the title character, and other characters come and go without having inner lives of their own; they have relevance only insofar as they intersect with his life. The "Patriarch" is the ur-dictator, the tyrant personified, an old man who never steps down, who rules behind a double whose death thus gives rise to a legend of immortality. The dictator's underlings invent Potemkin everything; his palace is full of cripples, blind people, lepers, and domestic animals; he is a monster who, like all the tyrants he represents, cannot love, but only cultivate power. He isn't really a human being; he's an implacable, negative force. For all his flailing around, occasionally making half-hearted and futile efforts to change, his life ultimately has no other meaning. And the reaction of the crowd, the mass, is the same every time. "The only thing that gave us security on earth," they say, "was the certainty that he was there....dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure..." Podp,Talking about the parables of Marquez --By the way is this the Marques of Love in the time of Cholera?]When all the power is invested in one man, the people treat him as divine. His will is supreme. He is the almighty. Yet we all know all humans are fallible. So the people have themselves a fallible God! [nice contradiction] ----The concentration of power in the hands of a human [challeged] deity, becomes a running tale of mistakes, a comedy of errors, since one can hold monopoly of power, but never of solutions, nor ideas. Never any monopoly over reality. The people will notice they have to be mostly disobeying the deity to generate adequate responses to unrelenting reality. But enjoying his status as a god, in reality a supreme dictator, living in an artificial world of obeisant sycophants, the Dictator is like a drug addict, in a paradise, fantasy world. But the parasites in the court watch closely, knowing him more than he knows himself, getting away with whatever they can as the power-addict is benumbed by flattery. Men like Rasputin too, Women like Livia the wife of Ceasar Augustus too, can, like viruses, work themselves such that they colonise the will of the Dictator, in effect making Him their puppet! Becoming the real power behind the throne. The Almighty Dictator is then reduced to a mere clown, but the terror needed to keep the act going is not clownish. Only the social happenstances in the court are the comedy. The dictator with supreme powers is as lonely as a mad man. For he is a human being denied the stimuli of normal human-2-human contact. His humanity wilts, so many of them degenerate into cruel psychopaths. Also prompted by even deadlier minds behind the throne, who know what it takes for such a god to rule: fear. Professor Podp, I think you can afford me 5/10 for this script! a weak pass but a pass! Try me on Benga Lyrics professor, --the sianda madongo type, then I am your distinction student!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 26, 2013 17:38:29 GMT 3
[So, I've been wondering: how long will it take before Kenyans decide that enough is enough, and they will elect the people who seem most capable of doing right by them? But they like just did that the other day in Nyanza primaries and what did the ruthless and ambitious Nairobi idlers like you do? Con them right out of it! Is it not you who told me at Orange House: it does not matter who votes, nor who counts the votes. Just who announces the result! My main man, you forgot??? ;D
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Post by OtishOtish on Jan 26, 2013 18:45:03 GMT 3
[So, I've been wondering: how long will it take before Kenyans decide that enough is enough, and they will elect the people who seem most capable of doing right by them? But they like just did that the other day in Nyanza primaries and what did the ruthless and ambitious Nairobi idlers like you do? Con them right out of it! Is it not you who told me at Orange House: it does not matter who votes, nor who counts the votes. Just who announces the result! My main man, you forgot??? ;D No, my friend; I have not forgotten anything. In those days, I had a very poor understanding of reform and democracy; but, now, having seen it in action, I have come to appreciate why we must have more of it.
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Post by podp on Jan 26, 2013 22:18:35 GMT 3
Garcia Marquez, in his 'Autumn of the Patriarch' spins a horrific story that is unlikely to be similar to anything you have read before. It is a fantastic description of the rotten guts of tyranny. 'Autumn of the Patriarch' isn't really meant to be a 'pleasant' read. It is a grim portrait of the title character, and other characters come and go without having inner lives of their own; they have relevance only insofar as they intersect with his life. The "Patriarch" is the ur-dictator, the tyrant personified, an old man who never steps down, who rules behind a double whose death thus gives rise to a legend of immortality. The dictator's underlings invent Potemkin everything; his palace is full of cripples, blind people, lepers, and domestic animals; he is a monster who, like all the tyrants he represents, cannot love, but only cultivate power. He isn't really a human being; he's an implacable, negative force. For all his flailing around, occasionally making half-hearted and futile efforts to change, his life ultimately has no other meaning. And the reaction of the crowd, the mass, is the same every time. "The only thing that gave us security on earth," they say, "was the certainty that he was there....dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure..." Podp,Talking about the parables of Marquez --By the way is this the Marques of Love in the time of Cholera?]
When all the power is invested in one man, the people treat him as divine. His will is supreme. He is the almighty. Yet we all know all humans are fallible. So the people have themselves a fallible God! [nice contradiction] ---- The concentration of power in the hands of a human [challeged] deity, becomes a running tale of mistakes, a comedy of errors, since one can hold monopoly of power, but never of solutions, nor ideas. Never any monopoly over reality. The people will notice they have to be mostly disobeying the deity to generate adequate responses to unrelenting reality. But enjoying his status as a god, in reality a supreme dictator, living in an artificial world of obeisant sycophants, the Dictator is like a drug addict, in a paradise, fantasy world. But the parasites in the court watch closely, knowing him more than he knows himself, getting away with whatever they can as the power-addict is benumbed by flattery. Men like Rasputin too, Women like Livia the wife of Ceasar Augustus too, can, like viruses, work themselves such that they colonise the will of the Dictator, in effect making Him their puppet! Becoming the real power behind the throne. The Almighty Dictator is then reduced to a mere clown, but the terror needed to keep the act going is not clownish. Only the social happenstances in the court are the comedy. The dictator with supreme powers is as lonely as a mad man. For he is a human being denied the stimuli of normal human-2-human contact. His humanity wilts, so many of them degenerate into cruel psychopaths. Also prompted by even deadlier minds behind the throne, who know what it takes for such a god to rule: fear. Professor Podp, I think you can afford me 5/10 for this script! a weak pass but a pass! Try me on Benga Lyrics professor, --the sianda madongo type, then I am your distinction student! “a poem on the solitude of power” is the single sentence one can use to describe 'The Autumn of the Patriarch' which, may be one of Gabriel García Márquez’s lesser known works, hidden behind the towering 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'Love in the Time of Cholera'. the theme of the novel – deception and self-deception can be compared nicely with what is happening now. it is as if, the state machinery deceives the people about the dictator and dictator about the people so from either side we don’t get the true picture and hence traces of that deception remain in the reader’s mind too. looking at former Luo Nyanza one can hypothetically draw parallels between RAO and the novels main character 'the General' who is installed with the help of the British. Marquez’s imagery and narrative is so stunningly beautiful that one easily becomes a part of this novel, sympathizing with the people of the country ruled by the tyrant (say former Luo Nyanza and Gikuyu Central to a lesser extent) and also sympathizing with how a normal person with normal fallacies becomes a tyrant. since RAO is not yet PORK one needs to foresee that perhaps it is the ultimate proof of the cult-like power such men possess and the eternal danger they pose. in Gabriels novel the depiction of the deadly apparatus of power is a highlight. take for instance the General’s rigging of the weekly lotteries so only he wins. he forces children to pick his winning numbers, and subsequently jails all two thousand of them. if one looks at what just happened in the Primaries it was ODM, TNA and Wiper parties that led in trying to impose to Kenyans the election losers! here are choice scenarios painted by the son of Emanyulia. Mr Tom Kajwang’ secures the ODM Parliamentary ticket for Ruaraka. It is quietly taken away and sneaked to Ms Elizabeth Ongoro. Both Ongoro and Kajwang’ only learn of this through the media. Nobody cares about their sensibilities, or those of their families and of others who have travelled with them this far in the political process. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000075898&pageNo=2&story_title=lsk-should-address-abuse-of-rights-in-politics-instead-of-regulating-dress-codeAre TNA in order to play Ping-Pong with Mary Wambui’s candidacy in Othaya? They should be reminding us that when Raila Odinga, Oburu Oginga and Ruth Odinga and their near relatives, all contest for political positions, they do so in exercise of their rights and freedoms. If some other family would be shy to behave this way, it also does so within its rights and freedoms. However, it is another ball game altogether when the political party hands them certificates even after they have clearly lost the race. the foregoing ball game paints a clear picture of what RAO, Uhuruto and company want for Kenya. since both RAO and Uhuruto belong to the same class. the theme of the novel – deception and self-deception can be compared nicely with what is happening now. it is as if, the state machinery deceives the people about the dictator and dictator about the people so from either side we don’t get the true picture and hence traces of that deception remain in the reader’s mind too. the aim of these class, RAO and Uhuruto plus other less pretenders to the throne is like those of described in Marxist theory, namely the bourgeoisie who play a 'heroic role' by revolutionizing industry and modernizing society. however, they also seek to monopolize the benefits of this modernization by exploiting the propertyless proletariat and thereby creating revolutionary tensions. if say Siaya County has a sycophant as a Senator, RAO's relative as Governor and a number of County Representatives are hand picked from losers who act according to the adage 'he who pays the piper calls the tune' one can start to see what RAO and Uhuruto have in store for Kenyans. take drug king and queen pins as another pointer. Busia County will have Waco as Governor, Nairobi will have Kideeero as Governor, Makueni will have Mwaaau as Senator and Mombasa will have Joooho, all in CORD. TNA is no better at the same front as you have Waaambu in Nyeri, Kavogo in Juja, Soonko in Nairobi. so all these guys are not aiming to get to power to make money as they already have loads and loads of them or rather mountains of money. they all want power to clean their ill gotten wealth. go to the future where we foresee Kenya producing oil. RAO and Uhuruto want to continue where the APK boss and business partner of both CORD and Jubilee is sitting. minting money from the wealth (oil, coal, and other minerals) as they strike deals with similar class from the East and West. in the final pages of the novel the theme of self-deception is driven home. reflecting on this, one realizes how dangerous self-deception is. this can also be read as a tragic tale of how a simple person is pushed in to becoming a dictator for his life as he is not remorseful and without a conscience. this quote brings it out nicely; "...but he learned to live with those and all the miseries of glory as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth, he had arrived without surprise at the ignominious fiction of commanding without power, of being exalted without glory and of being obeyed without authority..." there is a 12 year girl the General gave candy and later got his way with her. when he dies, she thinks on behalf of the people “we no longer wanted it to be true, we had ended up not understanding what would become of us without him”. thus begins a strong indictment of those who allow dictators to enslave them. so those fault-lines in Luo land are good tidings. just like any that may come out from the 'useless' lives led by the late Karuume, Michuuki and Saiiitoti should point to fault-lines in Gikuyu land. where are the heirs (Uhuru's, Fidels etc) of the 3 geriatricians mentioned?
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 27, 2013 17:42:13 GMT 3
IDELOLOGICAL FAULT-LINES LUOLAND 2B PART 11: IDEOLOGICAL FAULTLINES LUOLAND.The recent events in Nyanza, unfolding as a spectacle for national amusement to others, are not that amusing for Jaluos from what I gather around me. For me, however, I will try to commentate upon them from a tangent at critical introspection, taking a long term look, and seeing it as a necessary evolutionary step, toward a catharsis; whereas, in some of my colleagues, I have only seen the denial of utter shock --hopefully temporary. CRISIS [E DHO AKEREKEKE KAKA ANYWOLA] IN LUOLAND. part IIB There are some silences you have to ponder. Because of their ruthless and cold-blooded content: Them hearts that are hardened beyond compassion. The silence of a man who would watch a child being raped and shrug: Ain't none of his business; --he turns around, walks on, away without even disgust. And forgets, dislocates, because interference in it has no profit for him. This is different from the silence of a coward. A coward cares but is paralysed by fear. A coward hurts within. Even as he feigns neutrality for self-survival, he is eaten on the inside. Revolted at his behaviour. Stuff like conscience and so. Knowing right from wrong and so. Recognising when one fails his duty and his humanity all at once. So judge which silence it is from you? addressing myself to --( Un Jokanyarnam ma jowich)-- Men of astonishing intellect like Ngire Oyugi Akong'o, Omollo, Muga, Oloo A., Owiti, Dr. Academic Superstar Kotieno ;D etc etc; and others like PLO Lumumba, Otiende Amollo, Evans Kidero --the types you can see plotting to run for the presidency from years away! Which one, jodalawa, is your silence on the massive political rape of Nyanza which we call the ODM primaries?Ha, aint gonna give a damn shit. Coz water under the bridge life goes on etc. Good point. Yes. Now the down side. Because I had a terrible dream. Ancestors long gone calling me before a panel, and asking: Ikawo kori kon mane nang'o? Pesa positione Omera You know Makau Mutua, the Buffalo professor who likes to make trouble on the Sunday DN, has this faulty crystal ball which one time prophesied to him the risk, and possibility of a military coup after the elections --If the United Kingdom rules us! Of course it wont happen, but Niel's Bohr has a saying about the future and predictions. And a handle on the notorious Jukwaa has this avatar with that quote from the Nobel-price science man. This set me wondering what I would say, if some hard-breed soldier arrested all these brilliant Luo minds, cynically toyed with them about their democratic credentials, trussed them up like hogs awaiting a barbecue, and got ready to drive bayonets through their hinds. Why did you underwrite a rigging done in broad-daylight with such impunity on our people? ---Ongoro and Oduol get half a reprieve for expressing moral qualms!Would I start yelling about human rights --make noise like silly ;D Otishotish about Maina Njenga, or would I suffer a moral-caust, lalparo, toss the soldier a grin and encourage him thus: drive that bayonet all the way to their throats! all the way through to the base of their tongues! Those clever tongues that held their peace when Luoland was raped in broad daylight, by none other than the luo political elite! A homegrown rape with no foreigner to scapegoat! (Those who have never witnessed African armies on a roll do not believe the things their soldiers can do, until they wreak them to them!) In Historical struggle, many have died for universal suffrage, one person one vote to decide the future of a land. And the desire for fairness runs deep in humanity. But when the most brilliant of your land are bent on thwarting the will of the people, they no longer have use for that institute of free and fair elections, neither have they the temerity nor the decency to rig in discreet, yet they talk reform the whole day and night, then perhaps what they unspeakably announce is that your land too, coldly reasoned on her side, has no use for them neither, other than as fill up for graves. A cleansing festival for renewal of the covenant with the word 'democracy' with content! Without them! Let Kenya have her corrupt politicians --she has a right to that I think! but if from Luoland, let them beware of that the Luo boast one of the most ruthless streaks in the continent. (You may check the deeds of Brother Joseph Kony if you doubt that capability). And a day will arise in Luoland that the political riggers and nincompoops who abuse the trust of Luo folk, will be on the receiving end of this legendary Luo rage: When the beast unleashed shall demand its pound of flesh, and gallon of blood, from each and every prominent now holding his tongue, to legitimise the rape of our weeping nation! FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL.
Cold is my heart, yet my blood boils; O Lord O lord stay may hand, Here I shed tears with dry eyes.context NB: I remember the hushed story of an infamous Tutsi captain going to an institute after the genocide and calling every H&T academic to court. Malevolent, with a heart totally frozen, he asked "how come only Tutsi women from the college had been selected and sent to the interahamwe rape-camp?". He laughed a chill. 'It is academic now anyway. They are all dead. Raped to death. And here I am then. You have heard of Hamurabi the law-giver? I have no academic interest in the man, only practical interest. I am going to put you naked in a psychiatric ward teeming with murderous sex offenders, for one week. I have academic interest in how you will look on the 8th day! I want it recorded in Tutsi history, that there was a man who wept for Tutsi women raped to death, but the tear he shed, was from dry eyes.' And he looked around the room, his eye the gaze of a ritual priest of human sacrifice from long ago Afrika. Cultural atavism as a reaction to a political crisis? A thought! Recite that poem above. I will be back!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 2, 2013 12:12:04 GMT 3
take a look at emerging multi-partysm in Nyanza as reported here. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000076350&story_title=Battle-looms-in-Nyanza-as-hopefuls-get-IEBC-nodPART III A feeding frenzy, when the ruling class are stripped totally naked, and the content of their character is visible in all glorious gluttony. Siaya is explicative, in that it was a show-case of the central battle between two forces active in Luo comprador politics. One incumbent and aging, the other emergent and youthful. The Raila secession on another plain. They do not come more establishment than Dr. Oburu Oginga. He is the brother of the president designate; the son of the Jaramogi royalty and therefore dynasty; member of the richest family in Nyanza and Luoland (and the whole Kenya); he is an outgoing Minister at the key ministry of Finance; represents Bondo the Mecca; boasts kinship with the current POTUS; is aging but is a prime mover in the secretariat of ODM, the party waiting to form the next government.He is therefore a tower of power, socially, economically, politically. A dynastic pillar. Challenging him was the younger professional Alegoman Oduol. Boasting only his profession and managerial acumen, but professing change, credible modern leadership, and a need for general economy dynamism, pro-future oriented. And guts. 'Yes we can' kind of stuff you know.It quickly emerged Prince Oburu was the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko in its last years. Rotten to the core; just waiting a nudge from a determined outsider to implode. Shocked, frantically the party establishment, in the likes of James Orengo and Jakoyo Midiwo, went into overdrive to, after failing to intimidate or buy out the challenger --{like was done with people like Joe Donde and later Ochanda Jayimbo}, negotiate a neutralization of the threat by other means. He is a TNA mole, they let whisper. It was calculated this was a killer blow in Siaya. But it failed. And so Orengo, Jakoyo and their party secretariat were forced into blatant rigging. Jakoyo to save his own arz too. So unforgiving in purges can the people of Gem be! [This is the Gem of Wasonga Sijeyo, who told Jomo Kenyatta in parliament that he, Kamau, was not the father of the nation, but that of corruption! --it was erased from the Hansard!] But meanwhile ... just like in many other constituencies across Kavirondo ... the Siaya race had proved in the primaries, that the leading establishment candidates, whatever their rank, had no roots with THE PEOPLE. (Their antics in the tenth parliament had broken this bond). They are thus a castle built in the air. The skeleton remains a bent and cracking Raila, but they the rest are intestinal worms, ticks and lies on his body. And he Raila has become a carrier ruled by parasites, his will to fight them sapped, diminished as to be dead. This is the lesson of the Siaya nominations fiasco: A younger professional Luo class --their forerunner was Raphael Tuju, is taking the new found democratic space to challenge the old rotten order, and discovering the people can listen to their discourse. In Mbita the case of Dr. Mark Magunga is being studied with care. He is in the constituency race on an alternative party to CORD, PDP. A man named Alila is up against Kajwang', after jumping ship citing unfairness [direct nomination]. This multi-partism is much the picture across the areas heaviest hit by irregularities, and whose victims were quick enough to defect to the 'family parties'. [Those are parties within the CORD alliance]. Like every establishment thinking it has the mandate of the heavens to rule, but discovering that the people over whom they lord are not syncronised in harmony with heaven's wishes, Nyanza ODM blundered into the pitfall of incumbency. Rhyming the illusions of power with reality. Thus getting exposed and intensifying the conflict. Before the nominations, Nyanza was ODM. Now it is CORD. Spot the difference, if you can not, I will be back.
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Post by podp on Feb 2, 2013 21:38:56 GMT 3
take a look at emerging multi-partysm in Nyanza as reported here. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000076350&story_title=Battle-looms-in-Nyanza-as-hopefuls-get-IEBC-nodPART III A feeding frenzy, when the ruling class are stripped totally naked, and the content of their character is visible in all glorious gluttony. Siaya is explicative, in that it was a show-case of the central battle between two forces active in Luo comprador politics. One incumbent and aging, the other emergent and youthful. The Raila secession on another plain. Like every establishment thinking it has the mandate of the heavens to rule, but discovering that the people over whom they lord are not syncronised in harmony with heaven's wishes, Nyanza ODM blundered into the pitfall of incumbency. Rhyming the illusions of power with reality. Thus getting exposed and intensifying the conflict. Before the nominations, Nyanza was ODM. Now it is CORD. Spot the difference, if you can not, I will be back. \ The Prime Minister was quick to state that nomination anomalies happened everywhere. He blamed the media for laying “too much emphasis on ODM nominations.” But it cannot be done that way. Raila Odinga is the brand. The others are not. They have never pretended to represent reform of democracy. Some have been prancing around with empty Deputy Premiership the way some fellow proudly prances around in torn underwear. I am disappointed. The PM cannot take solace in the knowledge that someone has torn political underwear, too. ODM must style up in what is left of the campaign. The last thing they need is bashing the media. You cannot win that one. It will cost you other things, too. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000076408&story_title=Kenya---As-we-go-to-elections-let-us-think-about-consequences-of-leaders-we-shall-elect-red highlight the common denominator between RAO's sychophants and Tuju's newly arrived aka Oduol's turns out to be that all of those guys in the various parts of Kenya are dependent societies of peripheral capitalism in the global system. they are ruled by the comprador bourgeoisie and satellite lumpen-elite. they are heavily segregated and exploited societies, they are deeply divided, and full of risk and conflict. let us see why? elites are necessary in Kenya, every class and every professional group in their struggle on the national and the global market, so that those groups could articulate and protect their interests and secure their development. there are futurologists claiming that the 21st century will see a rise of plutocracy and meritocracy, and that consequently the struggle for the establishment of new elites is fighting for leadership in the contemporary world will also rise in importance. you will agree that the issue that is currently becoming ever more important is that of creation of new strategic elites in the post election violence and birth of current Constitution in transition, as key agents of democratic reforms, modernization and development and hence the need to defy the King aka Jakom. why does he enjoy being an enigma? all of this testifies to the fact that those in power never want the roots and sources of their power to be known. this has been the case since time immemorial despite all the talk about ''an open society'', democracy, reforms and transparency. good old Marx justifiably warned researchers that an epoch could not be understood historically from the perspective of what ideological opinion the agents of social change have about themselves, but only from the perspective of the contradictions occurring in the sphere pertaining to the ways of production of social life and the distribution of social power. this is still valid today despite the epochal character of the information revolution, when the forces of the ''third wave'' have brought about synergy of social and symbolic power in the contemporary world as we have witnessed say with the Arab spring. we know that Social phenomena are not natural processes. they are not gifts of God or of leaders such as RAO and Uhuruto. the branch of Sociology has long ago demystified the laws that govern the ways social life is produced, focusing thereby on the ways of reproduction of capital relations, social power, development strategies and their implications for social inequalities among social groups. Kenya has also found itself on the receiving end of such neoliberal radicalism (ie. market banditism). this transitional shock has created profound changes in the economy and social anomia. there followed mass unemployment, enormous exploitation, social inequalities, the rise in social contradictions. all of the given processes led from a blocked to a disintegrated society, from real economy to ''bandit economy'', to lumpenpolitics and lumpendevelopment. www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-105230/kisumu-molasses-resumes-operationsdo such a type of neoliberal dependent modernization creates a specific type of capitalist society, namely bandit economy, lumpenpolitics and dependent culture. it also serves as the basis for the creation of a specific structure of social classes, layers and elites, that are instrumentalized by the global domination of capital, that are its servants and representatives of their power at the national and the local levels. the new bourgeoisie consists, among other things, of three fractions: a) the entrepreneurial one; b) the nomenclature one; c) lumpenbourgeoisie. apart from the entrepreneurial bourgeoisie, which is a driving force of development, the other two are non-productive, consumerist, and are often criminal and destructive in nature. would it be wrong to state the RAO and family are at the primitive accumulation stage while Uhuru and the likes of Kibaki are more of an evolving local bourgeoisie alongside the Manu Chandariaa? who are Comprador bourgeoisie is the upper layer of the bourgeois class? it is recruited from all the three fractions. it is a tycoon group ruthlessly led by its interests. it posits its own interests over general social ones. it is not national in character and is socially irresponsible. it is a blind servant of foreign capital, ruthless in the exploitative aim of the domestic workforce and dictatorial in relation to its fellow countrymen. its homeland is where its interests are. it is the agent of the megacapital in the function of global economy. it is a "Trojan horse" of the foreign TNCs in Kenya and our region. the given class usually invests ''its'' capital into non-productive but profitable sectors – trade, banking and services. driven by the logic of profit, it moves its capital from one field to another. due to its massive exploitation of the workforce, it creates/enlarges its fortune. it pays no attention to the plight of the working class and the people. as opposed to entrepreneurial bourgeoisie, as a driving force of development, comprador bourgeoisie is only profit-driven. both are market-oriented, but while the former is productive, the latter is speculative. both cooperate with international bourgeoisie and the TNC. lumpenbourgeoisie is the main agent in the world of bandit economy. it is a part of the ''underground'' economy and recruits its members from war profiteers and the social lowest of the low. why has Kibera not changed much since the great reformer, RAO become its Member of Parliament in 1992? it is a source of recruits for the social lowest of the low. the same can be applied to Mathare. or how come Sonko has complete say at Mukuru Kayaaba and Mukuru kwa Njenga? it lives on the ''holes in the law'' and the social anomia that emerged on the ruins of single party era. one may ask which social groups are the elite parts of the various layers of the new bourgeoisie in contemporary post election violence time and what their profile and their social roles are. a possible sketch of the composition of the elite groups in contemporary post election violence era may look as follows: a) economy elite (managers, meritocracy and technocracy) b) political elite (politocracy, bureaucracy and ideocracy) c) cultural elite (scientific elite, artistic elite, scientocracy, ...) according to how much they are ideologically formed, we can distinguish among: a) undeveloped elites; b) semi-developed elites; c) developed elites. we should also try and find answers to the following questions: what kind of elite suits undeveloped and degenerate social and class structure of peripheral capitalism?what is the link between bandit economy and satellite political elite? to be more precise: what is the link among bandit economy, comprador bourgeoisie, satellite political elite and lumpenintelligence, between lumpenbourgeoisie and lumpen development, among the strategy of dependent modernization, lumpenpolitics and lumpen development, between the strategy of dependent modernization and the culture of dependence?
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 3, 2013 11:31:40 GMT 3
part 1V. MESSAGE FROM UNDER THAT MUST NOT BE HEARD The predators, some of them scavengers which hunt in packs, have a very highly developed instinct for the wounded animal. That is their exceptional talent which evolution has crystallised to ensure the survival of their species in the struggle for existence. The wounded animal, is relatively an easy kill. But that is the biological determinism of natural science. Politics is, however, the arena of even much more ruthless dynamics. And we shall endeavor to unearth unnatural phenomena persistent therein. So I ask;1. Is it ideological? this rise of the young professional middle-class into Luo electoral discourse, as it now appears, all outside the Raila court or orbit? 2. How real is their ability to carve out a majority voting block in their respective constituencies in the Nyanza bedrock of ODM? COMMENTARY: 1. ---First, if we mind prof. Podp's characterisations of the bourgeoisie into Entrepreneurial, [-] Bureaucratic, and last, 'bandit' bourgeoisie], then then the answer is a categorical NYET, NO. Because answering with a Yes would indicate that, in the grandest sense, in the big scheme of things where ideology can be thought of as an alternative world view, these guys are propagating a New World. Propagating a different philosophical orientation.
They are not.
These guys are themselves a wing of the comprador. And that is why they all endorse Raila for President. They must somewhere entertain the fear that, were they to dis-endorse him now, it would be their political suicide ---worse than the Siberian chill of Dr. Shem Ochuodho after his rebellion-- because the nationalist euphoria (which insists on our own for the Top Job this time around), is a wave whose backlash could be ostracising. And the memory of Miguna trying to cut the Mugumo tree with a razor-blade, may still be enough of a scarecrow.
The inability of this group to develop a discourse outside that occultic [Luo] nationalist bedrock is what confirms them comprador upstarts --in my analysis. Their class insecurity which arises from the absence of an independent philosophical foundation, and an independent organisation to articulate their [non-existent?] vision.
Where republicanism begins, is to the comprador, political suicide. [Globally too, I think Monopoly Capital from Traditional Western Metropolises, can now be referred to safely as 'Aristocratic': Inherited incumbency Capital].
I have not heard disputations to the statement by a Kenyan politicologist who said: We all know ODM is the property of Raila Odinga and TNA that of Uhuru Kenyatta. Those running on those parties know they are riding a lift with the boss.
From the above, one could report that, when this now challenger class chose to ride the ODM wave at first, they publicly recognised Raila as their boss. This dependency means that even as they condemn the rigging, they must still swear loyalty to their King. And dissociate the rigging from the person of the King. It is also called Real Politik, and the necessary flexibility of a class whose evolutionary peak is to be auxiliary.
To totally and principally reject rigging as incompatible with any democratic process, requires a different mental aptitude for a politician, an aptitude far outside the range of the comprador. It was therefore the disenfranchised youth, seeing their dream being stolen live, who said No, and forced the victims of rigging back to the ballot. Who stood up for correct democratic protocol, threatening to close off Nyanza completely. This was not a middle-class led rebellion against the Luo status quo, this was a lumpen affair, just like the uprising against the Kibaki rigging of December 2007.
In Mount Kenya, I think it is the same riff-raff class who, for their own purposes, drove the devil's plan out of Uhuru; killed off Jimmy Kibaki's plans in Othaya vs Wambui; thrashed Mbaru in Nairobi. So it is a class no longer towing lines a told from above.
COMMENTARY ON [2]
2. Is their rise LIMITEDLY ideological, ideological as in based on dissent arising from problems in social reality, PROBLEMS which need must be addressed in A FAIRER political dispensation? Socio-economic and the rest.
To this I will answer Yes; this rise of the Oduols and Matungas is ideological. The contradictions of the bandit state inherited from the Moi-Kenyatta KANU, and further imbalanced under the Raila-Kibaki GCG cannibalism, have raised further complications which necessarily can not be addressed within the confine that created them. These complications are so dire, that they give rise to a radicalised lumpen proletariat that can openly rebel and denounce Raila for rigging in Luoland. Their support is pre-conditional. They are no longer subjects, they are citizens.
The message, terrible and unspeakable by the chattering classes that produce spin-doctors, is plain and simple. These youth consider free and fair elections, and the justice of it, more IMPORTANT than the ELEVATION of the fellow Luo Raila to the Presidency of Kenya.
This is the terrible message no anywola will dare say on a public stage. --Ka tendwa mar Raila en bende mana mar Kuo, to kara obedi. Nikech koro onge pogruok e kindwa kod okuche ma wayanyo pile ni Jokuoye! (If the presidency of our Raila too is just that of theft, then No way. Because there then is no difference with that of Kikuyus who we denounce daily as thieves!)
It is temper down this sentiment, this seditious moral streak in Luo nationalism, that the whole Luo middle class has mobilised to preach 'osetimore osetimore', wabeduru gi kuwe; kik wakethuru girwa Jokonagi, ka wakuno nimar ich-wang omakowa! --it is all spilt milk now; lets choose peace, not spoil our turn, turning our backs on Jakom in wrath. Yawa.
It is to diffuse this conscious and consciental dissent, that Raila and Cord must go to camp in Nyanza from tomorrow and campaign door to door. Like Mudavadi in his his Luhyaland home-turf.
There is another factor introduced in the election equation, and it threatens to override ETHNIC LOYALTY, or loyalty to Kingship. It is the republican sentiment of fairness and less central control. But it lacks allies in the upper classes toarticulate its coherence as a national option. That is its weakness, --like a peasant rebellion without cross class allies.
But the difference from peasantry, is its proletarian nature. Its radicality can not be reversed back into the bottle like the famous djini, but can only escalate to further express itself in some other non political means. More savage crime, more social dislocation and hooliganism, accompanied by deeds that look totally 'moral-less'!
When a society in the pursuit of some other higher goal, decides as a collective to reject honesty and the traditional values like fairness that define healthy humanity, it follows, in my sociological opinion, that this moral dislocation must be lived daily in reality. --Like young men gang-raping a minor, and when caught, showing no awareness of the beastly nature of their crime; showing no remorse, yet no history of mental health.
Yes, I and my fellow Luo scribes, for the sake of a historical first at PORK, do underwrite the rigged primaries, give them a certificate of democratic legitimacy, and continue unashamedly to talk about REFORM. All of us without a history of mental instability! All without fake degrees!
yes, no such thing as free lunch. No omelet without a broken egg. No virgin births anymore ever since Jesus.
The devil demands your soul Mephisto, and shall reward thee with Power! But you are warned.
I will be back!
To look at what this professional middle class wants to do economically which can not be done otherwise
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 3, 2013 17:34:09 GMT 3
take a look at emerging multi-partysm in Nyanza as reported here. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000076350&story_title=Battle-looms-in-Nyanza-as-hopefuls-get-IEBC-nodLike every establishment thinking it has the mandate of the heavens to rule, but discovering that the people over whom they lord are not syncronised in harmony with heaven's wishes, Nyanza ODM blundered into the pitfall of incumbency. Rhyming the illusions of power with reality. Thus getting exposed and intensifying the conflict. Before the nominations, Nyanza was ODM. Now it is CORD. Spot the difference, if you can not, I will be back. Here is the type of conflict resolution a wrong-footed political outfit resorts to, dealing with dissent.www.nation.co.ke/News/GSU-move-in-to-dispel-rowdy-youth-in-Nyatike/-/1056/1682980/-/y0parmz/-/index.html --gsu disperse youth in Nyatike. Both men have genuine certificates, so one has to be more genuine than the other. The difference between a genuine and bonafide article looks a complexity beyond the senses of these Luo youths and other riotous brigands! Example : When the Kenya shilling in notes arrives in containers in Mombasa from the printing press in Europe, it is just expensive paper cargo. When the CBK waves the magic wand over a batch, then it becomes legal tender. So you watch the serial number of the note you have, to see if it has been white-washed [or laundered] already!This is a complicated process not easily understood by the riff-raff of Nyanza; and which the famed brilliant brains of Kavirondo seem very reluctant to want to explain. Then you have a riot. Lets hope Raila carries the can well tomorrow, explaining Jesus has come back, because as we saw, wa mwishos became wa kwanzas. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000076472&story_title=Kenya-Nyanza-offers-a-major-election-riddle-for-Raila
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Post by podp on Feb 3, 2013 20:15:41 GMT 3
part 1V. MESSAGE FROM UNDER THAT MUST NOT BE HEARD The predators, some of them scavengers which hunt in packs, have a very highly developed instinct for the wounded animal. That is their exceptional talent which evolution has crystallised to ensure the survival of their species in the struggle for existence. The wounded animal, is relatively an easy kill. But that is the biological determinism of natural science. Politics is, however, the arena of even much more ruthless dynamics. And we shall endeavor to unearth unnatural phenomena persistent therein. So I ask;1. Is it ideological? this rise of the young professional middle-class into Luo electoral discourse, as it now appears, all outside the Raila court or orbit? 2. How real is their ability to carve out a majority voting block in their respective constituencies in the Nyanza bedrock of ODM? COMMENTARY: 1. ---First, if we mind prof. Podp's characterisations of the bourgeoisie into Entrepreneurial, [-] Bureaucratic, and last, 'bandit' bourgeoisie], then then the answer is a categorical NYET, NO. Because answering with a Yes would indicate that, in the grandest sense, in the big scheme of things where ideology can be thought of as an alternative world view, these guys are propagating a New World. Propagating a different philosophical orientation.
They are not.
These guys are themselves a wing of the comprador. And that is why they all endorse Raila for President. They must somewhere entertain the fear that, were they to dis-endorse him now, it would be their political suicide ---worse than the Siberian chill of Dr. Shem Ochuodho after his rebellion-- because the nationalist euphoria (which insists on our own for the Top Job this time around), is a wave whose backlash could be ostracising. And the memory of Miguna trying to cut the Mugumo tree with a razor-blade, may still be enough of a scarecrow.
The inability of this group to develop a discourse outside that occultic [Luo] nationalist bedrock is what confirms them comprador upstarts --in my analysis. Their class insecurity which arises from the absence of an independent philosophical foundation, and an independent organisation to articulate their [non-existent?] vision.
Where republicanism begins, is to the comprador, political suicide. [Globally too, I think Monopoly Capital from Traditional Western Metropolises, can now be referred to safely as 'Aristocratic': Inherited incumbency Capital].
I have not heard disputations to the statement by a Kenyan politicologist who said: We all know ODM is the property of Raila Odinga and TNA that of Uhuru Kenyatta. Those running on those parties know they are riding a lift with the boss.[/b]
From the above, one could report that, when this now challenger class chose to ride the ODM wave at first, they publicly recognised Raila as their boss. This dependency means that even as they condemn the rigging, they must still swear loyalty to their King. And dissociate the rigging from the person of the King. It is also called Real Politik, and the necessary flexibility of a class whose evolutionary peak is to be auxiliary.
To totally and principally reject rigging as incompatible with any democratic process, requires a different mental aptitude for a politician, an aptitude far outside the range of the comprador. It was therefore the disenfranchised youth, seeing their dream being stolen live, who said No, and forced the victims of rigging back to the ballot. Who stood up for correct democratic protocol, threatening to close off Nyanza completely. This was not a middle-class led rebellion against the Luo status quo, this was a lumpen affair, just like the uprising against the Kibaki rigging of December 2007.
In Mount Kenya, I think it is the same riff-raff class who, for their own purposes, drove the devil's plan out of Uhuru; killed off Jimmy Kibaki's plans in Othaya vs Wambui; thrashed Mbaru in Nairobi. So it is a class no longer towing lines a told from above.
COMMENTARY ON [2]
2. Is their rise LIMITEDLY ideological, ideological as in based on dissent arising from problems in social reality, PROBLEMS which need must be addressed in A FAIRER political dispensation? Socio-economic and the rest.
To this I will answer Yes; this rise of the Oduols and Matungas is ideological. The contradictions of the bandit state inherited from the Moi-Kenyatta KANU, and further imbalanced under the Raila-Kibaki GCG cannibalism, have raised further complications which necessarily can not be addressed within the confine that created them. These complications are so dire, that they give rise to a radicalised lumpen proletariat that can openly rebel and denounce Raila for rigging in Luoland. Their support is pre-conditional. They are no longer subjects, they are citizens.
The message, terrible and unspeakable by the chattering classes that produce spin-doctors, is plain and simple. These youth consider free and fair elections, and the justice of it, more IMPORTANT than the ELEVATION of the fellow Luo Raila to the Presidency of Kenya.
This is the terrible message no anywola will dare say on a public stage. --Ka tendwa mar Raila en bende mana mar Kuo, to kara obedi. Nikech koro onge pogruok e kindwa kod okuche ma wayanyo pile ni Jokuoye! (If the presidency of our Raila too is just that of theft, then No way. Because there then is no difference with that of Kikuyus who we denounce daily as thieves!)
It is temper down this sentiment, this seditious moral streak in Luo nationalism, that the whole Luo middle class has mobilised to preach 'osetimore osetimore', wabeduru gi kuwe; kik wakethuru girwa Jokonagi, ka wakuno nimar ich-wang omakowa! --it is all spilt milk now; lets choose peace, not spoil our turn, turning our backs on Jakom in wrath. Yawa.
It is to diffuse this conscious and consciental dissent, that Raila and Cord must go to camp in Nyanza from tomorrow and campaign door to door. Like Mudavadi in his his Luhyaland home-turf.
There is another factor introduced in the election equation, and it threatens to override ETHNIC LOYALTY, or loyalty to Kingship. It is the republican sentiment of fairness and less central control. But it lacks allies in the upper classes toarticulate its coherence as a national option. That is its weakness, --like a peasant rebellion without cross class allies.
But the difference from peasantry, is its proletarian nature. Its radicality can not be reversed back into the bottle like the famous djini, but can only escalate to further express itself in some other non political means. More savage crime, more social dislocation and hooliganism, accompanied by deeds that look totally 'moral-less'!
When a society in the pursuit of some other higher goal, decides as a collective to reject honesty and the traditional values like fairness that define healthy humanity, it follows, in my sociological opinion, that this moral dislocation must be lived daily in reality. --Like young men gang-raping a minor, and when caught, showing no awareness of the beastly nature of their crime; showing no remorse, yet no history of mental health.
Yes, I and my fellow Luo scribes, for the sake of a historical first at PORK, do underwrite the rigged primaries, give them a certificate of democratic legitimacy, and continue unashamedly to talk about REFORM. All of us without a history of mental instability! All without fake degrees!
yes, no such thing as free lunch. No omelet without a broken egg. No virgin births anymore ever since Jesus.
The devil demands your soul Mephisto, and shall reward thee with Power! But you are warned.
I will be back!
To look at what this professional middle class wants to do economically which can not be done otherwisewhat is happenning in Baba land can be characterized by destroyed society, i.e. lumpenpolitics and lumpendevelopment. it has found itself in the jaws of the neoliberal strategy of dependent modernization that produces subdevelopment, peripherization of economy, society and culture. the degenerate social structure then sees the emergence of new aspects of neobourgeoisie as well as the emergence of the new fractions of its elites (the entrepreneurial fraction, the nomenclature fraction and the lumpenbourgeiosie). the focus of our analysis is comprador bourgeoisie and the fraction of pseudo-lumpen elites, which, as agents of social change, produce underdevelopment and the culture of dependence, i.e. lumpenpolitics and lumpendevelopment. a critical analysis of the social role of this bourgeoisie can show all the detrimental effects of the strategy of dependent modernization, of the actions of comprador bourgeoisie and the satellite political elites on the development on the contemporary society comprador bourgeoisie is the main force behind subdevelopment and subservience to the world of the supercapital. it is a domestic offspring of the profit-driven Internationale in the countries of peripheral capitalism. it develops ''bandit economy'' and invests its capital in the peripheral sectors of trade, and, if necessary, in the narcomarket, too. as far as its social profile is concerned, it is an amalgam and recruits its members from the various groups involved in the neobourgois ways of production, from the omenclature bourgeoisie, lumpenbourgeoisie and partly from the entrepreneurial bourgeoisie. it possesses no developed national consciousness and blindly follows its interests at all costs. it creates clones with a RAO and Uhuruto trademark, it produces people who have sold their souls to capital, and who are ready to act against national interests in order to increase their wealth. it creates betrayers who can flip flop like the initial pentagon of ODM is all in Jubilee and UDF with no qualms. comprador bourgeoisie is neither an agent of progressive ways of production nor does it have developed social consciousness so as for it to become a leading class. therefore, when social struggles occur, this bourgeoisie simply gives support to the winning fractions of the new bourgeoisie, no matter what the ideological standpoints of the latter happen to be. its sole concern is to secure its interests and to profitably invest its capital nationally and globally. its political elites group around the liberal-democratic parties, but it is also ready to support the conservative ones, if their political programme enables this bourgeoisie to secure those interests. thus neither CORD nor Jubilee are nationally oriented, as they are merely vehicles for profit and are client-oriented. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000076528&story_title=Kenya-Seek-Raila%E2%80%99s-advice,-Orengo-tells-Oduol Speaking to the same delegation, Oduol hailed Orengo’s proposal to meet Raila saying that he has no grudge against the PM and would continue campaigning for him in the vast County. Personally I have no grudge with PM, he is my Presidential Candidate. I will try to reach the PM through his close confidante to discuss the touchy issues. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000076465&story_title=Kenya-APK-is-not-about-Meru;-it-is-a-personal-vehicle-to-power,-wealth In fact, APK’s founder has been quoted as saying that political parties are merely bridges to power and should be dismantled when their owners achieve their personal goal; no wonder he has been a member of seven political parties during his political career.
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 7, 2013 23:49:54 GMT 3
the novels main character 'the General' who is installed with the help of the British. Marquez’s imagery and narrative is so stunningly beautiful that one easily becomes a part of this novel, sympathizing with the people of the country ruled by the tyrant (say former Luo Nyanza and Gikuyu Central to a lesser extent) and also sympathizing with how a normal person with normal fallacies becomes a tyrant. Wonderful phraseology here, Podp, reminds me of why countless generations of students world wide have enjoyed the novel Things Fall Apart. Achebe's simple flow technique is like nyuki, a honeyed slow -working intoxicant that, once tasted with the opening lines ---Okonkwo was well known throughout the 9 villages of Umuofia and even beyond. His fame rested on solid ....--- en-captivates the reader and enthralls him forever! And ever, and ever the world over!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 9, 2013 11:16:35 GMT 3
To totally and principally reject rigging as incompatible with any democratic process, requires a different mental aptitude for a politician, an aptitude far outside the range of the comprador. It was therefore the disenfranchised youth, seeing their dream being stolen live, who said No, and forced the victims of rigging back to the ballot. Who stood up for correct democratic protocol, threatening to close off Nyanza completely. This was not a middle-class led rebellion against the Luo status quo, this was a lumpen affair, just like the uprising against the Kibaki rigging of December 2007.The message, terrible and unspeakable by the chattering classes that produce spin-doctors, is plain and simple. These youth consider free and fair elections, and the justice of it, more IMPORTANT than the ELEVATION of the fellow Luo Raila to the Presidency of Kenya.
I will be back! To look at what this professional middle class wants to do economically which can not be done otherwiseOn self-inflicted woes tormenting the Luo, (or political auto-mutilation as someone joked), ---and of which Dalmas Otieno slyly alludes to in his let by-gones be by-gones pitch to underwrite the rigging here, ... jukwaa.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=7637 --- there had always been an understanding that Raila needed not campaign in Nyanza. In Nyanza he would only need to make splashes into the tel, a kind of source-well, or primordial emotional womb, to refresh and steel his nerve, forging himself a-new in the adulation and idolisation of his base, before foraging far and wide for votes to clinch the deal of their dreams. But now there he was pleading like every other candidate in Siaya of all places! reduced to using metaphors which seat uneasy with even immediate allies. Msinipatie madoadoa! He was pitching for ODM proper, 6-piece all the way, and that meant giving cause WHY the other members of the family of CORD, needed be shunned! A dangerous ideological rapid. Because it is like sowing discord amongst the family members in cord, --defining authenticity is risky; and, indeed, trying to reverse what now is popularly called the advent of true multi-partism in Luo Nyanza.Candidates vying on the other sister parties have been quick to qualify this (LUOLAND EN ODM and six-peace e yo ma dhi Sayun) as an attempt, a connivance to reserve the goodies for the ODM cronies rejected already by the people. A mere selfish convenience. Dr. Mark Matunga, vying for the Mbita seat, while fully endorsing Raila, has publicly articulated the anti-six-piece position: weuru luoro multi-party e Luo! Piny oyawore osesudo! --The world has moved on and the country democratised. Let us not fear multi-party choice in Luoland. Everybody has to live with it. But I think it is not the individual Bravery of the Oduols and Matungas making them defy the official position of royalty and the court. It is that they fear more the emergent, vocal and rowdily assertive lumpen that have become, by default, their base. As suave professionals infested with models in elite colleges of the world, they profess decision making is a mathematical science, thus calculate the damage which the waning King can do to their future, --with their careers just starting and given their youth--, is less grievous than the damage their careers would suffer is they abandoned the youth voter constituency now.The compromise then is: endorse Raila, compete ODM anointees. Stay with the pulse of the future, which is more open, democratic, less top-down, and must respond to a restive unemployed Parisian mob. Those who are sure they are not already past their sell by date, have a measure of independence from Jakom. For the others, Jakom's word must be God's, because they, as appendages, can not exist without their creator, benefactor, mentor and host. A parasite must know the score. Just like a fatalistic serf his eternal place. But does this new enterprising and promising generation of comprador reformers know their international score? as merely an auxiliary class? later day Kibakis, Kikwetes and Chisanos? Do they? --- Podp?
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 17, 2013 17:34:07 GMT 3
THE BIRTH PANGS OF THE UNKNOWN, CALL IT CHANGE. The battle between the new and the old order in Nyanza, settling first as an inter-class, inter-elite fall-out, has now been captured in several powerful imagery's securely based on the culture, and traditional verbal currency. These imagery's have been authored by the status-quo to discredit their competitors, to exclude them by a discourse of narrowing the emotional umbrella of belonging, such as to disqualify them in the hearts of the electorate. To invigorate the word madoadoa, re-fashion it and apply it in Nyanza, is to take a leaf of its effectiveness during the uprooting of the weeds in the land of the Onjelos, or the Kalenjin. It has deep emotional resonance. Competition is fierce, with power incumbents insecure, much more so in the face of a suspected faculty of sympathy for the dissidents following their abuse by the mother party during the primaries. It is therefore a good pitch to portray them as projects injurious to the main agenda which, at least in Luoland, is no longer propelled as The Reformation, but simply Our Time Has Come. And so the bare bones cheap manipulation as the last resort, raising the parochial fear of being swamped by 'enemies',... traditional enemies --beware of their sponsored proxies! [and who are these .... ] All being fair in a do-or-die, this would rank as excellent manipulative skill, if only we were not aware of the downward trajectory of this dynamic, its inherent danger: --ultimately it degenerates into sub clan against sub clan, as we saw in the logic of this ideology in Somali, when Siad Barre 'nationalised' it. But given the little margins this election portends, it is understandable, with an eye to the coming power-balance in the senate and other organs of rule, that the battle-cry must come from the school of monopoly, from top to bottom, ie, six-piece. --No good sharing goodies if you needn't. Party, above talent. ====================== The imagery is that of an emotionally dysfunctional family, where Mother Superior has (both overt and covert) psychological ways of excluding the children from the other women in the polygamous homestead; or orphaned children invited to enjoy the famous largess of African hospitality being set at fence when the price meal is served! The quagmire of the politics and emotions in a polygamous homestead, is a minefield well understood by countryside folk, and raising that specter is an appeal to a very conservative mentality. Like using a kind of authentic caste system, in which blood is very thicker than water, to keep it all within the family. This makes a very powerful communication tool, only that as a national ideology, it will undercut a meritocracy and talent oriented uppity. No bloodline monopolises talent, and that is why republicanism came, ... so that the born-low of talent could end up highest in society. Beating the institutional caste system. Obama busted the nigga caste of his birth to become first African American POTUS. JFK to become first catholic extract Potus. Several Indian nuclear engineers, whose caste destined them to end up as sh!t-shovers, broke out on math talent to build nuclear bombs. Their country was so hungry for a Paki-deterrent, she shoved the caste system away to pave for lower-caste whizzies the way to technological nuke school, where upper-caste students would not sit with them in the same class. The ruthless military looking for a bomb, bared its fangs at the Brahmin's ---we are gentler than the [CPI]communists I tell you. You will prefer us to their red terror! But it was taking a severe political crisis to break the confines of the old, and re-arrange the constellation of the dominant forces. Presently continued.
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 17, 2013 17:54:02 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 19, 2013 19:02:54 GMT 3
THE BIRTH PANGS OF THE UNKNOWN, CALL IT CHANGE. The battle between the new and the old order in Nyanza, settling first as an inter-class, inter-elite fall-out, has now been captured in several powerful imagery's securely based on the culture, and traditional verbal currency. ============ The imagery is that of an emotionally dysfunctional family, where Mother Superior has (both overt and covert) psychological ways of excluding the children from the other women in the polygamous homestead; or orphaned children invited to enjoy the famous largess of African hospitality being set at fence when the price meal is served! The quagmire of the politics and emotions in a polygamous homestead, is a minefield well understood by countryside folk, and raising that specter is an appeal to a very conservative mentality. -------------- But it was taking a severe political crisis to break the confines of the old, and re-arrange the constellation of the dominant forces. Presently continued.Coming back to the exclusion mechanisms used by ODM in Nyanza to try and damn the friendly invasion by Co-CORD parties, and the narratives grounded in traditional imagery used to underpin this drive toward discrimination, the following uttered by Raila in Siaya, seems to have been a bridge too far to his audience. elections.nation.co.ke/news/Raila-urges-Siaya-to-vote-six-piece--/-/1631868/1686758/-/5acl0d/-/index.htmlSiaya town is in Alego, the ancestral home of the William Oduol who was rigged out by the evil trio of Jakoyo Orengo and Oburu. After being wronged in that way, his liberties trashed and his rights betrayed, Oduol made a daring jump to find a life-line and salvage what he could, ending up in another party within the CORD family, just as many elsewhere who suffered a similar fate at the primaries. But Lo, now he was the one being totally denounced, excommunicated by Jakom, right in his own home. The Alego people gasped. The goodly people of ODM who understand injustice and impunity shifted uneasily in their seats. The young men who are the source of so much heat in Nyanza murmured, restlessly seething, but just about did not do a Homabay. On the thread in which Jukwaa's Oloo blasts the rigging in the Siaya gubernatorial primary, there is the intimation relayed from facebook that, before Raila went to Siaya, a plot was afoot by the ODM strategists to have him humiliated, and blame it all on Oduol's supporters, thereby letting Oduol suffer the consequences of the negative backlash. Could this be the reason why they advised Raila to use the provocative images right at Oduol's base? jukwaa.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=7796&page=16 [scroll down] But as soon as the rumour had caught fire, a campaign that we can only call saturation, in the mode of carpet bombardment, went into gear, carried out by Oduol loyalists, independent candidate supporters and other activists. This to explain to the radical youth and bodaboda riff-raff, that a trap would be sprung, and better sense would be to avoid it. That ODM courtiers would use inflammatory language to discredit Alegoman Oduol and the rest in codes, calling them ---TNA moles, kimirwas, andhogas, ... we all know the key emotional apparatuses of the discourse. But they should hold their peace and not go the Homabay way, also called the harvest of the sandals . And that is how the day was saved in Siaya. No miracles. Just human action. But the people of Siaya had to find an explanation why Agwambo the wise Guide, could so blatantly add salt to injury. Stupidly calling Oduol a wild cat in his own home after ODM itself had denied him of his rights. And they have found a fall-guy for the King. Jakoyo Midiwo samoro ringoga gi wi Raila. True or false, but it is the nature of protecting the King. Some minion must be found to be whipped. The result is that all big ODM guns from Luoland have been pinned down in Nyanza, defending their orundu [tiny shamba], trying to whip up motivation to increase turn-out on March 4. The din of voices yelling turn out one and all Onagi has become strident as to be hysterical. Top guns can not leave to forage for votes far and wide. They are homeguards, 24/7 fending off an invasion of the bastards, fronting wildcats containing their deadly plague of choice. The plague of multiparty besieging Luo Nyanza. And the ghost of voter apathy with the prophet of doom Mutahi Ngunyi raising the discomfort with his baloney tyranny of abracadabra numbers! --They may be fictitious, but their effect is not, more like that of the false rumours of a breached wall in a besieged city. The result is panic nonetheless. But all this is only a tremor, and tremors do not split tectonic plates.
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