Hey stranger, here we meet again on the crazy corridors of my thought processes. It’s a strange world full of deadly contours of slippery ideas and a maze of inescapable high walled and granite hard attitudes that would render blunt the very tools of relativity that would try to dig their way into my mind to spit a little political correctness. Yes, I refuse to make a toast for all the spineless chatter boxes out there that have little to nothing of a standard of values to hold on to.
I have been exposed to a generation of people whose world revolves around what is fashionable and trendy things that do not hold much water in producing a solid character for the strange and hard knuckled world of adulthood. You know most adults would sometimes wish to go back to that place where one has fewer responsibility as a child, or even regress further back into the warmth of the amniotic fluid and bounce to the heartbeats of their mothers, but it’s too late.
Now that most of us are growing up, we realize just Haiya damn this world is so demanding; demanding your opinion. Even that, would be bashed and robbed of sanity while it's yet to move from your broke mental state unto the very harsh reality that is social media.
Think about it, why do people lie so much on social media. Trying to act all tough and all knowing…Call them small gods and the ever blazing trash talkers keyboard warriors of this age who will spill their agenda from the bitter feminazi to the loud hate filled atheist who will keep on going to Christian sites and YouTube songs typing “God doesn’t exist”. Not forgetting the less than wise brother or sister of a Christian who lacks wisdom in communicating His/her values and goes on a crusader mission on the internet quoting scripture left right and center with no revelation from God. Simply put “planting the right seeds in an open field full of sparrows…anyway God got His eyes on the sparrows too, as much as they would rush and eat the seed meant for the stony and footpath of hearts out there.
Oooh yes I have not forgotten the odd guys who eat conspiracy theories for dinner and a little radicalization in the morning. Forced to believe by poor reasoning that all the world problems are solely caused by the Jews and Americans…the North to be precise. Let’s not even go there, Thanks to “democracy and freedom” the green card you were looking for is coming home in a package of rainbow colors…kanyagia hio story.
I have just given you a little bit of what I Face on the internet every day, call the experience “traumatic internet experiences for the internet virgins of today” sadly most of the younger generation today broke their internet virginity quite young, this kids “ain’t loyal” to internet innocence, some landed on the web and literally got raped by the system, which one? You would ask, mmmmmh the adult entertainment industry, estimated to make $ 3,000 per second from a little curiosity from Tom, Dick and Harriet. Not just that but a lot of nasty and honestly socially maladaptive behaviors all learned from the click of a mouse and the gaze of uncontrolled eye.
All the above experiences and an overwhelming push for the: feel good, do what makes you happy and tolerate all except the Christians and trust all but the Muslim. Here in Kenya it’s deeper than faith it goes deeper into tribe and a little bit of race and political affiliation. The young person born today has a hard time speaking his/her mind without insulting, infringing on someone’s freedom or simply offending the different groups of people held by creed, agenda, race, nationality or status in society etc.
The big questions will always be, how far do we balance our freedom of expression without starting an internet war with countless, keyboard warriors whose central command station is led of faceless phantom’s ready to attack and go all ‘Spartacus’ on each other. Because there is a difference between freedom and licentiousness. I will choose to use the definition of freedom as defined as being the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved, because in this world you will always have the power or right to act, speak, or think as you want without hindrance or restraint, most of the mature persons out there know that what you speak or do will always produce deserving consequences That’s why we have the laws to protect you and others from those choices that might infringe on other people’s rights.
On the other hand being licentious is what most people are calling freedom today; where there is a lack of legal or moral restraints on the part of many people living in our world today. Most of our youths have joined the bandwagon of do that which pleases you and the results has yielded more hatred and division in our world. In fact, modern tribal warfare is fought online, with the warring parties defending their turf marked by a gazillion of flags representing the most interesting of their masters from the high and mighty of science and religion to Cars and movies with the most obvious being debates on same sex marriage, tiring stuff…very tiring conversations.
My point is that no human being can claim to be absolutely objective, neither can you be absolutely free, I mean every man serves a cause, a master of idea, we all were made with a capacity to worship something, some worship God, others give reverence and honor as they worship scientific theories and ideas, while some are stuck in a struggle with different ideas and other man made philosophies. A man will defend what he worships and will always try and be a martyr for his master. Learn this my strange friend, fighting over such a diverse array of ideas can amount to a helpless struggle if done without respect and the wisdom that is needed to communicate your ideas no matter how silly some sound with regurgitated knowledge and rote ‘spewage’ of facts that might not carry any truth.
So my two cents; hey cool down and find the wisdom in shutting up and learn to control what you type on you status updates. Secondly if you feel like sharing your ideas, do it respectfully and if you expect people to tolerate your ideas then learn to appreciate and tolerate divergent ideas but in all this be wise not to buy into everything and become a spineless buffoon who is too simple minded with an IQ of a constipated Baboon. Take your time, evaluate, ask and dig deeper…pray if you can and learn from the source rather than the countless heresies’ that are freely given by a people lacking in understanding.
So next time before you try to act all grown up and wise, and assuming a know it all attitude and try to fool yourself and others by following modern trends and act like you are the C.E.O of the universe, you know what…maintain your position and learn to speak when necessary, post when needful. For them who are free do not need to prove their freedom, the equals don’t need to try an act superior to feel powerful, neither do them who love God need to try hard defending Him, as someone said, you don’t need to defend the lion, just open the cage; the cage to me is the attitudes and mindsets that prevent people from getting right understanding of the depths and magnitude of the revelation of the Godhead, oooh yes I am a believer, honestly not the kind that cower and hide his/her beliefs. Applying what I have shared above, yea later folks.
By Justin Kipkemboi
