Lords of impunity

By now you have established that I have little or no respect for politicians and Kenyan politicians especially those made in Kenya. Unless you just crawled up from under a stone, you know of the hardships Kenyans are experiencing a very difficult period as a result of the high cost of living. All manner of reasons have been given to attempt to explain what might be happening. I have my two cents worth of opinion about it but that is for another day.
 Today I desire to to talk about impunity and selfishness, and no I am not taking about politicians. I am talking you and I. How often do we go all self righteous and condemn those we think have committed acts of impunity, all the while ignoring the everyday acts of impunity that we ourselves perpetuate.
 If you have ever driven against traffic overlapping everyone else because you thought you were in a hurry you were no better than our politicians. You did something that was clearly illegal because it would benefit you with little regard for what it would do to everyone else.
 When you cut into a line at the bank or at the supermarket, you are doing so because you think you are better than everyone else and your time is more important than theirs'. It is no different from when a VIPs security detail drive we lesser beings off the road so that royalty may pass unhindered. They are saying that what they need to do is more important than what we set out to do. If that annoys you when it happens then the same feeling is felt by people you cut into.
This same attitude is seen when people, who have no visible physical impairment, walk up to you in a Que and tell you to hold their place for them in line. They then take a seat and watch the line snake its way towards the tellers window and just before you get there, they reappear with a sheepish smile and wiggle in line. What they are saying is they are too good to line up and someone else can hold the line for them. No different from when our honorable (or not so honorable) members of Parliament say they can't/will not pay taxes off their income as they are doing national duty.
 In as much as our politicians make us want to pullout our hair and scream in anger, we are also doing the same things only on a smaller scale but terrible nonetheless. This weekend as you be mourn your fate at being born in Kenya, take a minute and think. The leaders we have come from our community and were getting away with acts of impunity long before they got into power.
 Fix the man, and the nation will fix itself.!