Mindful Nomad

Psychology | History | Human Nature

[Mindful Nomad @monyonchoc]

@Kimuzi_ In Kenya, the chaos are what is fuelling the system. With chaos even thinking is dampened.

[Mindful Nomad @monyonchoc]

@brokensuit44 Key takeaway, keep distance.

[Mindful Nomad @monyonchoc]

@Asamoh_ We are too individualistic as Kenyans. As long as it does affect me, I don't care. This is the mentality.

[Eric @amerix]

Amerix with his toxic masculinity followers have been vindicated.

This was last year, July.

[Mindful Nomad @monyonchoc]

@Kimuzi_ It is one of reasons we have not achieved meaningful results. They love the chaos because for them it is booming business.

[Mindful Nomad @monyonchoc]

@iamjoseh_ It caught most of us unaware.

[Mindful Nomad @monyonchoc]

@MrRoja1 @benji_wambura This helps alot. You make mistakes without denting your pocket. Good things take time.

[Mindful Nomad @monyonchoc]

@_lennoxomondi Informative piece. This defeats the simplistic thinking we see on the app. Entrepreneurship is complex.

Putting the systems up, getting the right team and clients can take time and sometimes you might die trying.

You have given the reality check.

[Mindful Nomad @monyonchoc]

@amenya_nelson They are bitter because they were taken off the 'eating table.'

[Mindful Nomad @monyonchoc]

@wmnjoya @BravinYuri Home libraries is the way to go.

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

There is something I have been observing for a long time now and the more I watch society evolve, the more the pattern keeps revealing itself.

We once lived in a world where paper was central to knowledge. Libraries existed everywhere, shelves were filled with books, newspapers circulated freely, and people physically owned information.

You could hold knowledge in your hands, store it in your house, pass it down to your children, underline pages, revisit ideas decades later, and no one could alter what was written on your copy unless they physically took it from you.

Then industries like Pan Paper collapsed and slowly, the foundation of paper culture began weakening.

Next came the rapid rise of technology. Audiobooks emerged. PDFs became common. Soft copies became the norm. Social media shortened attention spans. Video replaced reading. Entire generations began consuming information in fragments rather than in depth.

Today, many people barely read complete books anymore. A headline, a short clip, or a summarized thread is enough to shape opinions.

Technology then pushed deeper into schools. Notes became digital. Assignments moved online. Tablets and screens started replacing exercise books in some places. And if you remember in Kenya we were even scammed under the laptop project. Saitan! Cloud storage has become more important than physical archives. Step by step, society is normalizing the idea that knowledge no longer needs to physically exist.

Then came the global climate change push. Save trees. Reduce paper usage. Digitize systems. Go green. And while environmental conservation is important, I cannot ignore the direction this pattern seems to be taking.

What happens when environmental arguments, technological dependence, and policy-making eventually merge into one?

I believe a time may come when governments and institutions will begin pushing directives, much like the Type C charger transition for iPhone, where physical books are gradually phased out in the name of efficiency, modernization, and environmental conservation. It will sound progressive. It will sound necessary. It will sound responsible.

At first, people will celebrate the convenience.

“Why carry books when everything is online?”

“Why cut trees for paper?”

“Why print when a tablet can store thousands of books?”

But convenience often hides dependency. Because once society fully depends on digital access for knowledge, ownership of information changes completely. You no longer truly own knowledge. You merely access it through systems controlled by corporations, governments, internet providers, and digital platforms.

A physical book in your house cannot suddenly disappear because someone changed a server policy. A printed page cannot be remotely edited overnight. But digital information can be altered silently, restricted instantly, or erased completely without most people even noticing.

And that is where my concern deepens.

A future where hard-copy books become rare is also a future where access to information becomes conditional. To read, you may need subscriptions. To research, you may need internet access. To learn history, you may need approval from centralized platforms. Knowledge slowly stops being a right and starts becoming a controlled service.

Then comes the most dangerous part of all: the rewriting of history.

History has always been shaped by those with power, but physical archives created resistance against total manipulation because old books, newspapers, and documents remained scattered across homes, libraries, and institutions worldwide. They became evidence that could not easily be erased.

But in a fully digital world, information becomes fluid. Edits become invisible. Narratives can be adjusted gradually. Uncomfortable truths can disappear from search engines. Entire generations may grow up only knowing the version of reality that algorithms choose to prioritize.

[Mindful Nomad @monyonchoc]

@wmnjoya Influencers are not your friends.

[Eric @amerix]

You have become more tribal than our parents. We thought education would close the gap. Educated but illiterate and abusive.

[Eric @amerix]

Men,

If you want to be a writer, read books.

If you want to be a good writer, read fictional books.

If you want to be an excellent writer, read ancient books.

If you want to be a mediocre writer, read newspapers.

#MasculinitySaturday

[Mindful Nomad @monyonchoc]

@BravinYuri We are poor at observing patterns.

[Eric @amerix]

We moved from "Drain the swamp" to "add more water to the swamp."

[Eric @amerix]

Grammys is the annual meeting of paedophiles, perverts, sex pests, harlots, gheys, liars, and criminals.

[Cerebral Assassin @xysist]

Who has access to UON repository or other sources that can get me this article "A pre-colonial history of the Gusii of western Kenya from c. A.D. 1500 to 1914" by W. Ochieng. "

RT Widely

[Eric @amerix]

WANTAM in your mouths.

TUTAM in your stomachs.

Pretenders!

[Mindful Nomad @monyonchoc]

@amenya_nelson Most have failed to give us their ideologies. The current system's configuration will hinder significant progress.