Post by jakaswanga on Oct 20, 2014 11:25:16 GMT 3
I continue my 'reposite', B6K, for this is a topic dear to my heart, and even dearer to my head.
I am of course acutely aware, that banal things like patriotism, -- transferring ones age-old tribal loyalty to a country of barely a 50-year statehood, tend to look more like the idle business of academic naivelings. ..
I know, that in the background of a balkanised Africa in general, and an over-ethnicised Kenya in particular, state patriotism such as melt the hearts of my ilk, is a dysfunctional mindset! Yet loving Kenya above your holy tribe is exactly the historical agenda I peddle! --with shameless bloodthirst!
I want to inculcate teary-eyed flag-worshiping patriotism in the hearts of doubting Thomases like jukwaa life-member b6k!
Bear with me, Jaduong'!
Man this is a daunting prospect. And a perilous odyssey.
And there is worse leviathans to contend with than in the famous mythical tale of Homer.
You see for instance- rich-boy Presidents like Muigai the s/o Jomo; like other spoilt-brat kids of comprador looters -be it Jomo, Suharto, Mobutu, Duvalier, or even our once notorious Gideon Moi,- may only have a haughty laugh or cynical grin decorate their faces in a mask of utter contempt, when they hear of one 'loving their country'. For this infamous breed weaned on impunity, it, patriotism, is merely a phrase to be heartlessly manipulated for self-serving super graft. Indeed, their fathers having betrayed everything their people aspired to and fought for, bequeathed upon them an innate disdain for they ideals of the collective struggle. Further, they internalised only the cynical manipulations of the emotions of nationalism, all to abuse patriotism to further their dynastic ambitions. These types are therefore wont to, in their private moments, laugh at those who self-sacrifice themselves for the national liberation. And in public, drunk with power and moral corruption, they castigate those steadfast in conscience. Here I think of Kenyatta snrs: and what have you done for yourself, you fool Kaggia?
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> Bildad's mistake was that he had resisted to join the corruption bandwagon of using state power to loot for private accumulation. That was stupidity! This is the inverse Morality which, I argue, tethers Africa to the bottom of civilisation to date.
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> No one builds their country on a fetish of theft. You collapse, like 500 years of Haiti
I am of course acutely aware, that banal things like patriotism, -- transferring ones age-old tribal loyalty to a country of barely a 50-year statehood, tend to look more like the idle business of academic naivelings. ..
I know, that in the background of a balkanised Africa in general, and an over-ethnicised Kenya in particular, state patriotism such as melt the hearts of my ilk, is a dysfunctional mindset! Yet loving Kenya above your holy tribe is exactly the historical agenda I peddle! --with shameless bloodthirst!
I want to inculcate teary-eyed flag-worshiping patriotism in the hearts of doubting Thomases like jukwaa life-member b6k!
Bear with me, Jaduong'!
Man this is a daunting prospect. And a perilous odyssey.
And there is worse leviathans to contend with than in the famous mythical tale of Homer.
You see for instance- rich-boy Presidents like Muigai the s/o Jomo; like other spoilt-brat kids of comprador looters -be it Jomo, Suharto, Mobutu, Duvalier, or even our once notorious Gideon Moi,- may only have a haughty laugh or cynical grin decorate their faces in a mask of utter contempt, when they hear of one 'loving their country'. For this infamous breed weaned on impunity, it, patriotism, is merely a phrase to be heartlessly manipulated for self-serving super graft. Indeed, their fathers having betrayed everything their people aspired to and fought for, bequeathed upon them an innate disdain for they ideals of the collective struggle. Further, they internalised only the cynical manipulations of the emotions of nationalism, all to abuse patriotism to further their dynastic ambitions. These types are therefore wont to, in their private moments, laugh at those who self-sacrifice themselves for the national liberation. And in public, drunk with power and moral corruption, they castigate those steadfast in conscience. Here I think of Kenyatta snrs: and what have you done for yourself, you fool Kaggia?
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> Bildad's mistake was that he had resisted to join the corruption bandwagon of using state power to loot for private accumulation. That was stupidity! This is the inverse Morality which, I argue, tethers Africa to the bottom of civilisation to date.
>
> No one builds their country on a fetish of theft. You collapse, like 500 years of Haiti