Friday 22 January 2010

Vacancy: Post Election Violence Engineers

Aggressive youthful persons are wanted to fill the above named positions in a dynamic political outfit, Gonga which has branches all over the country and soon going global. We are hiring in readiness of the coming referendum and the 2012 General Election.
Job Profile
To conduct those tasks as assigned by the management.
Qualifications
Experience to use machetes, arrows and bows, guns and such crude weapons
Ability to determine tribal identity of individuals
Ability to follow orders without second thoughts
Convicted rapists are encouraged to apply
Under 28 years of age except for those with military experience
Experience in burning churches and buildings full of women and children will be an added advantage.
Remuneration
Successful candidates will be compensated competitively and commissions are allowed in frm of properties looted.
Gonga is an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes applications from all genders. Any persuasion will disqualify the candidature. Only short listed candidates shall be invited for the interview

Thursday 21 January 2010

Avatar: what capitalism got to do with it?


Hi guys this is aint my first post on the blogosphere.....i might have been among the first Kenyans to blog ..way back in 2005. i had a blog named uchungu wa ghetto but i forgot to update it or it was eaten by the rats. All in all i have decided to start blogging once again and i will begin by an article on AVatar the movie causing a storm all over.
I ain't a movie reviewer of great repute so that may explain why am gonna link Avatar and capitalism.
When I first heard the hype about Avatar it was all about the 3D nonsense. Well Avatar was released in various versions including 2D and 3D. To me the difference between 3D and 2D is the same. Maybe u can blame the screen I use for watching my sheet. However after watching it critically i found Cameron had prophesied the downfall of Wall Street way back in 1994. For those not used to history of movies, Avatar was conceived in 94 but the technology to produce it was not ripe. So it had to wait 15 years. While Avatar begins to me on a low note note (this is true of guys used to watch kung fu and those action packed Van Damme movies). It slowly builds the tempo to be what it is and worth the billions it is grossing.
As it builds so did my anger build up for the first watching thinking it will be a typical US show of might movie. In the typical scenario of show in those Van Damme and Senator Schwarzenegger movies where they take down whole Vietnam armies....Soo funny while in the ground the US were given a kichapo cha mbwa by those vietcongs. The US suffered first Humiliation in the Vietnam War of 1969 yet all movies produced show how US humiliated the Viets. Typical US egoism. The capitalistic maafakas invading Pandora seem to be winning making you (if you are anti-capitalism) very angry. In their search for unobtanium they will stop at nothing and the CEO puts it just like it is. The unobtanium is symbolic me thinks. It is a plain way of tell us the capitalistic maafakas, that we will rape the world and get rich but once mama nature gets angry the dollarz in the bank wont save us.
It is sad to see the Na'vi guys with arrows being felled down by state of the art chopper gun power. They have to rely on their god aiwa. In the end the gods and the Navi's prevail but not without the help of the same capitalistic forces as they are the one behind Jake who saves Pandora. All in all it is a good movie worth the capitalistic dollars it is grossing...which in the ends beats the logic whether it was meant to be a whipping to capitalism.

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