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The devil is remarkably here disguised as Jubilee, NASA

I saw you with the devil. In the Post Reason Age that we live in, this mantra has become a magic wand. It is a latter-day goddess out of a machine. Mental laziness has taken hostage of our intellect in Kenya. That you have been meddling with the devil is, therefore, our quick Greek Deus ex Machina. This “goddess out of a machine” rescues us from “complex situations,” where our intellect has packed up. We are, therefore, living in the Post Reason Age; the Age of Intolerance. Since you cannot think, just declare that the other person is the devil’s agent.

The worrying phenomenon is, unfortunately, a global trend, judging from the emotional ultra nationalism that is taking over the Western world. Everywhere, the central nervous system has surrendered to a defective endocrine system. We are operating on a broken-down hormonal rush. The system is coded with the words, “I saw you with the devil.” They gush out of us almost as if they operated on their own fuel and ignition. And we have become a slothful and insolent “I saw you with the devil” generation of hostage takers.

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