FRM2011 wrote:I have just read todays's lifestyle article on the Sunday nation about the new emerging middle class. The type who spend kes.85,000 on a round of drinks. For them its all about the flamboyance with an emphasis on the price tag. So one of them pays Kes.1m school fees p.a. Am asking myself ....is there some intrinsic value in that high figure ?? Is there a correlation with the quality of education you get at that price??
Am reminded of a poem by a Mr.Rubadiri ;
Society is a market stall/
And men goods on display/
where the label is more important than the labelled/
and the price more fascinating than the value.
When you script your life towards having lots of money, and showing the world that you have made it, you come to a culdesac. You come realize that even the people who fear and respect you are just as clueless about their being as you are.
And they have stuffed you with money; you just feel like vomiting, or to rush out to the street, tear out your clothes and show God the middle finger.
But you aren't very sure of yourself and you are full of fear. You end up vomiting the money and kicking humanity in the ass.
Cowardice is then rewarded with admiration and envy, and you grow bolder and bolder in your spite for others, and yourself.
Everything is meaningless, you become the 'American psycho'.
This is the middle class.