2012 wrote:tycho wrote:Kenya has never experienced any liberation since its inception, only transformations have taken place.
The liberation Kenyans need is of the mind. As Njoya said, the law courts are the best campaigning vehicles. We are drawn to voting in criminals and people with no moral integrity.
I protest against the use of clichés in political discourse. Such language appears to rob us of responsibility. For example, are we speaking of a 'collective mind' that Kenyans have an external and independent access to?
Again, how can courts of law be campaign platforms?
What about 'the promise of politics' as in the ancient tradition exemplified by Socrates for example; where the social and public sphere excluded labor- the animal part of nature- and included 'work' and 'action'?
For me, liberation is a going beyond the animal instinct and rediscovery of humanity through joint action and thought. Liberation is found in the 'agora' and its contemporary equals.
The courts of law in such circumstances would appear to degrade or regress into pre-liberty conditions...