When lucky learned members panic, the whole society is thrown into a whirlpool of caution and confusion.
That’s what happened 48 hours ago when the whole country, including Professors of Telecommunication studies, plus holders of doctorates in this field, went bonkers about some mysterious calls emanating from nowhere in particular. Yes, you got me right, a call and everyone enrolled in panic-hood.
Were the calls harbingers of demise? Not at all. And anyone arguing so need to seek treatment for idiocy before today's sunset. But before then sample this:
The most learned of my friends were too busy abusing their hard-earned university degrees by posting esoteric updates on facebook about the calls, which as at now is said to have set foot first in Ukambani- it’s not strange it emerged from this part of the world known well for its most gloomy witchcraft- a friend of mine once said some wizards in the place were promising heaven to some sinful flibbertigibbets (women) if they dared walk naked in front of them. It only happens in Ukambani but Gusiiland should be competing with it.
Anyhow, it beats logic and more so a grievous infringement of the knowledge-code for people with fair education to believe in such poorly founded messages and phone calls. First, where on earth can a mere phone call transmit death? Unless, it’s a fictitious Tom Cruise movie then this way death would have pulled a sturdy shocking mutation of the millennium. Otherwise, it won’t happen soon on Earth, maybe in Mercury or Pluto. Anyway, when sense returns and intelligence comes back, Kenyans should realise death has (and will) never been transmissible; it’s only Malaria, Cholera, HIV and cousin diseases.
A piece of advice: In such panicky and intricate situations it’s always good to let wisdom reign. Wisdom is the ability to interrogate mystery at a higher level of understanding than let’s say morons or imbeciles. Matters as these calls required such a wise treatment not exaggeration. However, recent experience says of the inability of many ‘educated’ Kenyans to do this. Instead they immersed their heads in ignorance and stupidity together with the above mentioned cadres of humanity (morons and imbeciles).
Media too are culpable. As the events unfolded, social media with the mainstream outlets engaged in no different scenario: they let the mystery bloom without bothering to let wisdom reign in their studios. KTN and particularly Evelyn Wambui (she was a year ahead of me in campus) deserve praise for trying to disprove the issue. She did a wonderful exposé to counter the calls. Others flopped in their social responsibility to correctly inform, guide and interpret for their masses.
Just by the way....
*I’m worried for long life for my dear illicit- brew- drinker friends now the urine + sewage made drinks are legal. How long will my friend, let’s say AG (Not Amos Wako), enjoy the sunrise and sunset when he begins taking changaa-breakfast, changaa-lunch, and changaa-supper/dinner? I bet 10 years are too many.
To begin a well-written argument and end it like that is tragic. I put it before you, I ahve done this several times, that I grew up on Chang'aa. Save for my grandfather, who after years of taking, finally succumbed, I see, hear, feel no evil about it. I mean, even my grand dad did not die from Chang'aa, he skipped taking his drugs for chang'aa that is why he left.
ReplyDeleteDoomsday prophets like you have it in your heads that drinking is bad. You keep this crusade even when your toungue has never tasted that drink.I derived a living and fun from Chang'aa and that is why I have been defending it.
I have also said time and again that the ingredients for Chang'aa are no more than water, cereal and sugar. Anything else is not Chang'aa and the faster you learn this the better for you.
Well, I have no problem if such arguments bring bread to your table. But I am not prophesiszing doom.Factually, you will definitley run out of audience and this topic will fold.