Metal Breakes

I read an interesting book a few years ago, a whole publication dedicated to illustrate how poverty eradication, not mitigation, is feasible. I cant remember the title nor the author, you might find that weird but that’s me. I remember faces not names, I remember the ambiance not the name of the place, I remember the story not the narrator, I might remember the meaning of a word but not the word itself… I could say my brain registers names in the RAM. Anyway, this book may as well have been written by a dreamer. It really stretched my imagination almost to breaking point, a full stretch I tell you. Imagine a world where everyone had a little more than enough! And that day could be today because there is enough wealth for everyone today it just doesn’t go around, according to the book.

So why am I writing about a book I read years ago today? It’s because I was watching this TV show that I happen to like, it’s called Fairly Legal starring the beautiful but sadly married, Sarah Shahi. It’s a great show I won’t delve so much into what its about, but its basically about an ex-lawyer turned mediator who was fed up with the legal system and its bureaucracy, the part that is played by Sarah Shahi. The character elucidates her shift in career choice by stating that in a court of law, there is a winner and a loser but in mediation, everybody wins! And sure enough in every dispute of every other episode of the show, is a bunch of winners with big smiley faces in the end. Naturally this raised the question in my head, can everyone win all the time? That’s how I remembered about the book written by a dreamer. I posed the question to myself, I don’t know is all I came up with. Other similar or related questions would be, can tribalism die in Kenya? Can corruption in its entirety end?

When I was a child -and I had a fun-filled childhood, a curious lad I was- I used to think believe that anything made of metal was unbreakable. One day I was swinging on a metallic chair and my mother kept warning me that I was going to break the chair or my bone, I said to her, but it’s made of metal! Well, that chair didn’t break but I later came to see a broken metallic chair and that was mind boggling to me at that tender age. Moral of the story: even the hardest of things do break. I mean, dinosaurs became extinct, how? How does a whole specie just die out? And we could lose cheetahs and elephants too. Can we do that with the specie of tribia corruptica? You cannot write off some of these ‘radical’ ideas as pure dreams or as being merely utopic, can you?

If you have an answer for any of my questions please feel free to share, along with a logical reason.

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