masukuma wrote:
I do it by design... having traveled to 20 or so countries I think i can distill what is in my interest or not. I know the battles I need to pick and those which I want. I am very self reflective my positions are not informed by culture (not most of them anyway) but by critical self reflection unlike most people I don't feel the need to prove myself to others who i consider my intelectual juniors in order to be seen as "human" by them. Sina mzigo... I have accepted some things.
that is why I am a proud and self identifying coward coz my life is irrepetable...I am me. There will only be one me EVER. For better or for worse.
@Masukuma, Even the thieving politicians are doing it by design.
Because they'll live only once. They have no "mzigo" of minding their populace. They are proud.
But as you always say,the @masukuma of the future will be "brighter" than today's masukuma.
The street cleaner on the streets of Kyoto, cares about his/her work because of what it does to the city. The bigger pic.
Here at the ranch, the street cleaner in Nakuru may tend to be "selfish" and not care much about that city, but about a "kaplot" somewhere, just as you @masukuma, distilling what's in your interest.
In the end, we have a clean Kyoto vs a filthy Nakuru