THE AMAZING DIGITAL GENERATION: Today I wokeup to a gift from my son. It was a very rare, unexpected art,engulfed in reason and thought. I was left both impressed and annoyed. Impressed because a kid this age can think, photoshop, choreographic, mix, match, paint and endup coming with an art so impressive, so real, yet so funny. That, a kid, from the third world, who has found a place in the worlds strongest economy, has taken his position in competitive art. Art is the future of the digital generation. Art has gone a notch higher in technology. That todays art is exclusively evolving into digital. The speed at which the digital generation thinks and translates their reason into art is impressive. Yet the art leaves me annoyed. Annoyed not because of the portrait of the fake me. But because, as a nation, Kenyan leaders are engulfed in divisive politics, while denying the future generation their opportunity to advance in reason, art, science and interactions. Not only have our leaders killed our future. They have also killed the future of our young people, our children. They have taught them of tribalism and its seniority. That Kenya is made of 42 tribes, where there are better tribes and worst tribes in order of creation. That God created a certain tribe to lead while others follow. That this and that tribe is lowly and should therefor shun from it. Do we ever realize how we separate our kids from the rest of the world? Do we ever know how we make them uncomfortable and unable to fit in the 21st century and in the global village where the rest of the world meets in a competitive action? Our kids will find themselves strangers in the modern world, engulfed in arrogance, hate and self deception, moving backwards to the medieval times, as the rest of the world moves forward to economic supremacy and integration. Why did he choose to work with only 3 men, his dad, Raila Odinga and Barack Obama, while it is said Kenya has a president and his deputy? Does Uhuru Kenyatta have reason to worry? Do kids see him as a liar, who failed to keep a promise of laptops, the gateway to technology, and therefore unfit to hold the highest office? I feel sad and very sorry for the digital generation in my motherland, the digital generation, whose parents, leaders and elders have mastered in politics of deceit, hence compromising the future if the digital generation. I personally encourage the young generation to RISEUP and occupy their rightful place in the 21st century and denounce the leadership of tribal bigotry and move forward to a leadership that abhors their future. Their future is not along tribal groupings, but in technology. Just as knowledge, technology is not absolute. Right connections and interactions will lead Kenya out of the tribal quagmire and give our digital generation a face in the global village where they rightfully belong.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:24:29 +0000
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