Do we fail to get it, or do we deliberately sidestep issues?

Even our highbrow scholars engage in appalling bawdry in the countryside, and give band-aid solutions to mortal conditions.   These past few months have witnessed Kenya's intelligentsia in the political space cut across the country in a futile exercise called empowerment.

And they are marshalled by the quasi-schooled.

Why do people who have enjoyed a good education fail to see the obvious?