Kenya can’t heal when leaders keep opening old wounds

NAIROBI: Infuriated by Conservative Member of Parliament John Parkinson during a parliamentary debate in 1866, Politician cum philosopher John Stuart Mills remarked; “I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant that stupid persons are generally conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any honourable gentleman will question it.”

At some other point, Stuart Mills observed that, “it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.” I can’t help but think of the antics of an insufferable Jubilee quartet that never endeavours to get the other side of the question.