corporate scene is the posterchild for the malaise . Gone are the larger-than-life corporate heads who seemed to personify the father figure and were the face of the organization .
In their place we now have anonymous number crunchers whose sole reason for existence seems to deliver maximum return to preferred stakeholders at a fat bonus to themselves and in the current equation the employee is no longer a stakeholder .
The heads and top management of these corporates are extremely manipulative to the point of being abusive and they run their money minting enterprises totally devoid of humanity and their motto is ‘ nothing personal , it ’ s just business ’.
These corporate sharks are symptomatic of a sick nation that is devoid of social acculturation and collapsing family units . Their need for constant validation drives them to fear any appearance of weakness or failure .
They demand unconditional loyalty to themselves and are intolerant to any criticism as they do not admit or recognize any personal flaws . They surround themselves with handpicked yes men who feed their megalomania .
Those that do not possess the killer instinct to rise to the top of corporate echelons , which oftentimes requires the ability and inclination to backstab a colleague with no sense of remorse become the ignored majority .
This lot soon develop a poor self-image as they are relentlessly battered from all sides by ambitious colleagues on an imaginary fast track which is measured only by one ’ s ability to affect the bottom line by the proverbial innovative streak .
These are the ones whose self esteem is assaulted on a daily basis and reminded that they are overcrowding the fast lane
and should rightly step aside and watch the smooth operators in their swashbuckling style illuminate the path to the top .
They become passive aggressive as they withdraw into a safe inner place and soon become part of the office furniture and are the ones that surprise everyone by taking their lives to continue being invisible or committing grisly crimes to attract attention .
With an absence of an indigenous cultural buttress to regulate societal behavior and norms and the ever-present hero worship of global billionaires whose indiscretions are regularly covered in the media , being successful becomes synonymous with bad behavior .
The collapse of the family unit seems to be especially disastrous to the stable development of males as they miss out on an essential role model who under normal circumstances defines the stability of the home and by extension the society .
It is now almost a given that corporate success seems to go hand in hand with broken families as if families cannot survive success . It seems almost inevitable that one of the measures of success is the string of failed families in the wake .
The broken families created by success has an unfortunate byproduct , the compulsive addicts who may or may not be substance abusers since all they seek is to fill the huge voids in their lives caused by disintegrated families .
We have not realized that in our hot pursuit of the material success which in turn creates the soft life that we all crave as depicted by the numerous reality shows , that basically confirm that excess is good and the successful play by different rules .
We go to school , not to mold the person and inculcate personal discipline , cognizant of the codependent nature of existence , but to learn that cutthroat
It is now almost a given that corporate success seems to go hand in hand with broken families as if families cannot survive success . It seems almost inevitable that one of the measures of success is the string of failed families in the wake . competition is the way to make it in the world by outperforming your peers .
Success at any cost spawns the culture that the results are infinitely better than the process and the perennial cheating we have in exams is aided and abetted by teachers who are supposed to inculcate honesty and discipline .
The teachers corrupt practices would however not be possible if parents , hellbent of ensuring success for their offspring , did not pay handsomely to gives theirs a head start in life oblivious to what it communicates that success is possible without effort .
When anything you want in life is for sale then the only thing that matters is to acquire the money by whatever means and since Kenyans have also learnt to laud the result but not the process , we fete our fraudsters as the champions for beating the system .
This wholesale breakdown in discipline and integrity undermines the whole social and economic fabric of a country and renders meritocracy useless . The most effective way to destroy a country is to tamper with the education system .
Kenya is already grappling with a nonsensical education system that has failed to address the real needs of the country . Rather that put concerted effort to fix this anomaly , in the typical Kenyan short cut approach we have allowed a parallel system to flourish .
The parallel system is based , as expected , on ability to pay and those that follow that system are trained that with money comes privilege but the latent discontent created by this overt system of discrimination has unfortunate societal aftershocks .
In Kenya it is actually possible to be on a parallel educational system from kindergarten to university and for an inexplicable reason this is okay to our education mandarins who seem to have abandoned educating Kenyan children and now just schools them .
If we examine the various factors that underwrite a sick mind including beliefs , perceptions and addictions , we note that lack of social binders like relationships , cohesive families , culture , meaningful work and shelter play an important part .
All the above are influenced and affected by a holistic education system that is painfully lacking in Kenya and childhood
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