Ian's Blog

  There is something unusual happening across the world, particularly among younger generations. People are questioning almost everything they were told to believe. They are questioning leaders, governments, churches, traditions, careers, marriage, education, success and even the idea of what a good life is supposed to look like. It is tempting to describe this as rebellion, disrespect or a loss of values. But perhaps something more complicated is happening. Perhaps this is a generation that has simply become less willing to accept things merely because they have always been done that way. For generations, there were certain institutions and ideas that were treated almost as unquestionable truths. You respected your elders. You trusted your leaders. You went to school, found a stable job, got married, bought a house, raised children and worked until retirement. Religion provided moral direction. Government represented authority. Education represented opportunity. Hard work was expe...

  There was a time when something happened to you and it simply became a memory. You could go somewhere beautiful, eat something extraordinary, meet an interesting person, have an argument with a friend or experience a quiet moment alone, and that was enough. You did not need to photograph it, record it, post it or explain it to thousands of strangers. Some experiences belonged entirely to you. Today, that idea feels increasingly strange. We live in a world where almost everything can become content, and somewhere along the way, we have started confusing documenting life with actually living it. Social media has changed the way we experience ordinary moments. A meal is no longer just a meal; it can become a photograph. A holiday is not simply a holiday; it is an opportunity for an Instagram carousel. A wedding can become a carefully produced spectacle designed as much for people watching online as for those physically present. Even grief has increasingly found its way onto our time...

  I have increasingly come to believe that one of the most dangerous things happening in modern Christianity is the way many believers have elevated church leaders beyond normal human accountability. In many churches today, pastors, bishops, prophets, apostles, and other religious leaders are treated as though questioning them is equal to questioning God Himself. That mindset has created an environment where some leaders are protected even when there are serious allegations against them that include sexual abuse, financial fraud, manipulation, spiritual coercion, and conduct that would immediately provoke outrage if committed by anyone outside church walls. To me, that is deeply troubling because no religious title should place anyone above scrutiny. A pastor remains a human being. A bishop remains a human being. A preacher remains a human being. And human beings, regardless of how eloquently they preach or how many scriptures they quote, remain fully capable of wrongdoing. The ide...

  I genuinely believe I was born in the right generation (Gen-Z). Not because life today is easier, and certainly not because everything around us works the way it should, but because I belong to a time where questioning power is becoming normal instead of forbidden. There was a time when openly criticizing government could make you disappear, cost you your freedom, or mark you permanently as dangerous. There was also a time when questioning religion was treated almost like rebellion against society itself, when asking difficult questions about faith, doctrine, or religious authority could isolate you socially or even place you in real danger. Today, even though those risks still exist in some places and in some forms, I feel fortunate to live in an era where people can challenge powerful institutions more openly than many generations before us ever could. That freedom matters deeply to me because I think questioning is one of the healthiest things a society can allow. I know peopl...

  Human beings like to call themselves the most intelligent species on earth, and perhaps biologically that is true. We discovered fire, built wheels, crossed oceans, created medicine, mapped the stars, split atoms, connected continents through invisible signals, and taught machines to imitate thought. On paper, it sounds like the greatest success story in existence. Yet sometimes when you step back and look carefully at what modern civilization has become, you cannot help but wonder whether somewhere along the way we kept advancing long after wisdom had stopped keeping up. We should probably have stopped somewhere between discovering fire and filing taxes. Because fire made sense. Fire gave warmth, protection, cooked food, extended human survival, and created community. It gathered people together instead of pushing them apart. But once humanity kept going, we somehow ended up building systems so complicated that millions of people now spend their lives trapped inside structures t...

  Every election season in Kenya arrives wrapped in language that sounds noble. Politicians speak about healing, reconciliation, unity, and moving the country forward. They promise that old wounds must not divide us, that anger must not consume us, that we should look ahead instead of behind. It is language designed to sound mature, presidential, and patriotic. But Kenyans should now be careful whenever they hear those phrases, because too often they are not invitations to heal—they are early warning signs that accountability is about to be buried again. The country has paid dearly for leaders who treat justice as negotiable and accountability as an inconvenience. We have repeatedly been told that prosecuting powerful people risks destabilizing the nation, that exposing uncomfortable truths may reopen ethnic tensions, that punishing major political figures could harm national unity. Yet every time justice is postponed in the name of peace, Kenya does not become stronger. It becomes...

  The news that Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of OnlyFans, died at 43 is a moment that demands reflection. The man reportedly made $3 billion from a platform where countless others sold themselves, their bodies, and their privacy. Every video, every message, every tip, every transaction—Radvinsky took 20%. He didn’t build a tech empire. He built the most successful middleman operation in modern history. And for years, society called him a “tech founder,” as if that somehow absolved the moral implications of what he profited from. Radvinsky wasn’t a tech visionary. He didn’t invent a new way of communicating or solving a technical problem. He simply created a marketplace, positioned himself at the top, and took a cut of the most intimate labor of others. OnlyFans was profitable from day one, no venture capital, no IPO, no external investors. Because when your business model is taking a fifth of what someone earns from their own skin, you don’t need outside validation. You need creator...