There is an urgent need to preempt the increasing threat to the threat to Kenya's national security as we move closer to the polls. The likelihood of sabotage from outside is very likely. This is informed by the new found mineral resources, improved infrastructural capacity and the general future economic outlook.

What do you as think tank make of the recent increase in challenges to our territorial integrity with Ilemi, and Somali claims coming up all together? Coupled with the death of Meles Zenawi, and threats to internal security as well? Coincidental? I don't think so.
Threat?

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Mkeyied, Kweli now with all the info on mineral resources known or speculatively what is the best way forward? I believe we must arm motherland to the teeth as a preemptive measure.

I doubt whether this is a perspective worth having. It is full of fear, and personally I am tired of living under constant fear.

Perhaps this may not be the case for the 'capitalist' but as a 'peasant' I have nothing to lose but my chains. So to ask me to think of how I'll preserve my chains is to ask for too much.

I doubt whether a matter of national importance is that important now that I have matters of human importance at hand. The nation state is a product of a myth whose validity is so shaky. It is shaky because I have the capacity to have a different mythology.

Considering matters identity, you will quickly see that a person is but a chain of verbal relationships that range from those long dead to those who will be born many years from now. Don't you think I must be very wary of boundaries that will blur this range of identity?

It is understandable that an isolated person will feel threatened; but what to do if one discovers that this isolation is false?

The Leviathan succeeds by generating fear, yet some are saying that we should run to him so that we can be free from fear; isn't this a crazy contradiction?

Worse still are the effects of jumping on this nationalist band wagon; it means surrendering many democratic rights like of freedom of speech and association for we must all please the beast. And who will the beast be? The most terrifying war lord.

@mkeiyd, only mythology can help in tackling matters of human importance. And the state is built on a myth. Do we need to go back to Plato and C to prove this point? The body politic arises out of mythology.

But every myth has its day, and those of the nation state are over.

The myth of the nation state begun to peel off (at least for me) its mask in the events of 2008. Where was the voter's power? How can a body politic fail to know how her citizens have voted?

I almost joined the march to state house the day the nation state collapsed. But then I discovered that a Wanjiku like me could not handle the matter at hand, I did not even know what was happening. But I discovered that I was incapable of defending the constitution under a hail of bullets and rocks.

All fear is based on the threat of loss, but how can one lose what he doesn't have? The individual is a part of the decadent myth. He is too powerless to be given a hearing.

Having united the political and the spiritual, (at least in my case)I can think of this matter more seriously.

The body politic is protected predominantly by armed forces. But the threats that we are facing now cannot be handled forcefully.

We must thus marshal unarmed forces to bring matters to settlement.

But what are unarmed forces? Spiritual forces. How to harness these?