The Illusion of Choice in a Colonized World
Policies of radical transparency are not easy to come by in today’s political landscape, despite the need for it. And mental decolonization is the preamble to change… For change worth the world, a world where the likes of our heroes are respected and revered not just for who they are but for what they did, and didn’t do. One where Kenyans and decent people everywhere have access to basic human rights like clean water, clean air, a decent education, and gainful employment.
In the illusion of choice, will of the people is precluded by the illusion that silence and blind obedience will anything but do the opposite of justify the illegitimate powers of tyranny and barbaric force meted on the everyday businessperson working to put food on the table. Bob Marley sang Get up stand up, Stand up for your rights… Don’t give up the fight! in 1973. It rings truer today than at any time of the past.
Choice is not a singular exercise of personal freedom. It happens every day we are alive and when we die if we’re lucky the people you leave behind continue the good fight on your behalf. Neither is it an exercise of real power unless these macro and micro, large and small actions are compounded on each other, as a process towards what we can call perfect defection! One where boy, girl, man, and woman stands in unison to meet the end of oppression with singular success.
The question remains: who are these people that your ‘effective legal mechanisms’ fail to contain? Let’s name ‘em. Then, lest we forget their character as people ripe for change in a world so often precluded from free will.
Signed
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Jay Mig