Ian's Blog

  One of the most dangerous assumptions in any society is the belief that legality and morality are the same thing. They are not. They never have been. History is full of moments where the law—the very instrument meant to protect justice—was instead used to justify cruelty, inequality, and exploitation. It was once legal to buy and sell human beings. It was legal to deny women the right to vote. It was legal to colonize nations, seize land, and silence entire populations. Legality has always been shaped not by what is right, but by who holds power at a particular moment in time. And whenever we confuse legality with righteousness, we give power the ability to disguise oppression as order. The idea that law equals morality is appealing because it simplifies life. It allows people to outsource their conscience, believing that as long as they follow the rules, they are good citizens. But laws are written, amended, and enforced by human beings—fallible, biased, and often driven by self...

  Human beings carry many faces, but none more layered than the face a man wears before the world. Society teaches men to project strength, certainty, and control, even when life is pulling them in the opposite direction. We admire confident men, follow decisive men, listen to assertive men—but rarely ask what lies beneath those performances. The truth is that every man carries an internal landscape far more complex than the mask he wears daily. And if you would truly like to know what men really are, the moment of revelation comes not when they are comfortable, victorious, or in control, but when they stand in danger or in doubt. It is in those fragile junctures where the truth of a man rises from the depths of the heart, shattering the practiced mask and revealing the reality beneath. Danger exposes what comfort conceals. When a man is threatened—physically, emotionally, socially, or financially—the instincts buried under layers of performance come to the surface. Some men show c...

For decades, Kenyans have faithfully paid taxes with the belief that these contributions form the backbone of a functioning nation. In principle, taxes are supposed to guarantee public goods—healthcare, education, water, electricity, infrastructure, and security. They are the social contract through which a population entrusts its government with the responsibility of managing shared resources for collective benefit. Yet the lived reality in Kenya creates a troubling contradiction: even after paying some of the highest taxes relative to income in Africa, citizens still finance nearly all essential services from their own pockets. The result is a deeply unfair system where taxpayers carry a double burden—one through the official tax system, another through private spending for services the state has failed to provide. This raises an uncomfortable but necessary question: what exactly are we paying taxes for? Consider healthcare. Every Kenyan knows that walking into a public hospital oft...

  In today’s world, the family unit is under attack from forces both subtle and overt. From media narratives to economic incentives, social engineering, and ideological campaigns, the traditional family structure is increasingly fragile. While much attention is given to the cultural consequences of broken families, fewer people consider the beneficiaries of this instability. Yet, if we follow the thread, the picture is clear: corporations, governments, the dating and entertainment industry, social engineers, the mental health sector, and influencers all profit when families fail to form and endure. Herein, I examine who benefits and how, when society drifts away from stable family structures. Corporations Win When People Stay Single and Lonely A society of isolated, single individuals is a corporate goldmine. Corporations have learned to monetize loneliness, selling products, services, and experiences that would be unnecessary if stable families existed. Consider the economics of l...

  We live in a generation that treats kindness like a currency something you spend today so that life pays you back tomorrow. People say, “ Just be nice and good things will come your way. ” It sounds noble. It sounds comforting. It also sounds dangerously false. Because here’s the truth most people don’t want to hear: Being nice will never get you anything. And if it does, it was never guaranteed. Niceness was never meant to be a reward system. It was never meant to be a strategy for success. It was never meant to be a secret shortcut to blessings, opportunities, or popularity. Being a good person is not an investment portfolio. It is not a loyalty card with points you redeem later. It is simply a way of being one that does not promise applause or protection. But somewhere along the way, society distorted kindness into a transactional religion. People started treating goodness like a deal with the universe: “ I helped you, so help me. ” “ I supported you, so support me.” “I d...

  One of the most overlooked truths about human relationships is that no two people ever experience the same person in the same way. We often assume that because we grew up in the same house, under the same roof, with the same mother and father, we must have shared identical childhoods. But in reality, even siblings, raised by the same parents carry profoundly different emotional memories, interpretations, and wounds. What people forget is this: parents are not static beings. They are shaped by time, circumstances, and their own evolving struggles. By the time one child is born, the parent is someone entirely different from who they will be for the next child. A firstborn often meets parents who are young, inexperienced, anxious, and determined to “get it right.” A lastborn, on the other hand, meets parents who are older, more relaxed, possibly more financially stable, or more emotionally tired. Middle children meet versions of parents who are juggling the chaos of life, career pre...