In the 2016 United States presidential election, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, receiving 65,853,514 votes, while Donald Trump received 62,984,828 votes. However, Donald Trump won the presidency by securing a majority in the electoral college.
But hold that thought just yet. we must first understand why we need psycholigical care according to the submission of Makua Mutua.
In East Africa, we are told, Kenya’s political and economic eclipse is upon us. This despite Kenya being often considered the leading country in East Africa for several reasons, including its strong economy, strategic location, and relatively stable political environment. Keys to this recognition are factored by its economy, strategic location, political stability, infrastructure and human capital. The have made our motherland to stand out in tourism, agriculture, innovations, sports and regional leadership.
The history of the architecture of Kenya’s slow-burning collapse—national Armageddon and National Death
Professor does not know why he is prophesying a national death for Kenya given the evolution of its rule of law architecture. However he is much more pronounced in announcing his revolution contribution. Revisiting the keys to recognition of Kenya’s prosperity, Makau tasks himself with political stability given its propensity and affinity to manipulative interpretation.
To understand political stability, one ought to be prudent in political diet of the historical moment we find ourselves in. And here professor, a confessed carnist, creates his own vaunted league in Kenya where the vegans are but political dwarfs and conmen chefs.
So when professor offers to peel your eyes you know how to feel. Here, he begins by telling us that history has no records what Romans did in 272 B.C. to Magna Graecia. But shadows and shades of remains his subject of interest and not the object themselves.
Politically, professor is obsessed with symbolism to even notice the subjective discourse he wishes to pin Kenyans onto is not objective . And here, we that refuse our eyes to be peeled take note that professor’s icon must have suffered politically for him to follow through the objective discourse that followed in asserting originality of a state which was the cause for peeling our eyes.
But somehow professor again beats all odds and finds himself forgiven and remembered in the new Kenya after the first Armageddon and National death. However, in the Kenya that emerges Mzee Kenyatta, a true nationalist and pan-Africanist, becomes the identity of the state. Mutua feels Kenya lost it after the first national death since the emerging vision for Kenya was hostile to his beliefs. But professor compounds his tragedy of being in a paradise which he wished not to be in for lack of originality that he could identify with his ideals. Meanwhile he crang to the only hope from the former world before the first national death; symbolism- the national flag.
Moment of capture, rapture or rupture?
Instead of that moment of rupture there was capture and this professor finds it regrettable and irreconcilable despite the made compromises that guaranteed him rapture into paradise after the first political armageddon and created a template for Kenya’s political glide path. All in all, Mutua cultivates remnants of historical symbolism in hope of resuscitating national airtime on alternative national originality and identity.
National Consciousness
The good scholar eventually gets over his denial of Mzee Kenyatta as the one mandated to craft a national consciousness as he invites us into a discussion on what led in the drastic tribalisation of Kenya. Here, Unlike Mwalimu Julius Nyerere of Tanzania who forged a nation out of some 125 ethnic groups, Kenyatta with just around 40 ethnic groups utterly failed to cohere a nation. Instead, Mzee Kenyatta preferred progressive experimentation and then integration along the learning national curve.
The opportunity to create a Kenyan prototype was however not sustainable given the outcomes of negative ethnicity. But it did not permanently fragment and balkanise into ethnic cocoons given the mandate of devolution. Why then does Kenya still continue not politics of ideology, or philosophy, but on ethnicity?
Departing from this issue, professor digresses to state capture by Kenya’s political and business elite to further self enrichment.
Professor then attempts to connect Kenya’s economy to dependence on outsiders to process its raw materials into finished products as the cause why Kenyans cannot build a road but instead rely on outsiders who fleece them. And this he attributes to lack of our elite lack in economic and political vision for the country. The elite are accused of intellectually bankruptcy as is in think that building apartments is creating wealth.
Liberal Theory and Philosophy.
From the outset professor warned use on political diet. But only to serve us with a cocktail of diets from “prostituic philosophy”. Regression of society does not invite us to digression from a point we seek to make through a line of thought by spreading moral entropy wide enough. But professor agains survives and we find him after the tantrums holding something worthy inspection; political immorality. Indifferent to what he says about professions we may as well remain ignorant had he not focused to the end on the political prostitutes.
What then does the good professor say of the political prostitute, Liberal Theory and Philosophy?
Be careful to find out in our next article.
