Democracy was never a settled fact only a collective aspiration
An aspiration now under scrutiny the world over
I dare say for some an aspiration long gone
Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 is no exception
Ladies and gentleman , the New World Order
Zimbabwe is now optimised for three types of people: 40+ rich males, hot young women, and the politically connected male with narcissistic personality disorder and a heavy dose of the Dunning–Kruger effect. Everyone else in the grey area is basically a spectator.
When a society descends into this perpetual “race to the bottom” of anti-intellectualism, feja feja mbingarism, and megalomaniacs with main-character syndrome… it’s doomed.
What will happen to the majority of jobless young males who will struggle to find a mate or career? Or the talented young females who can’t get a job without being sexually harassed or expected to pander to male elites as a norm? How will they find husbands from a pool of demotivated young graduate males , who dance in pampers for an ex-jap, smeared in baby powder?
What happens to the family unit that builds a society, as our feeds are now filled with Tinashe Mugabe-esque drama and marriage breakdowns?
We will continue to follow global trends of the societies we most want to mirror. Our kids will continue to sink into AI slop and brain rot on the cheaper devices of mass distraction we connect to Starlink for $30 per month. Why? Because the parents are in the swamp being distracted too.
Something will have to give. The solutions are going to be far more painful than we are willing to endure.
Just random thoughts.
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