Thinking about Ug!

I am so sure and need not to apologize for my certainty that many of my friends are doing so badly when it comes to critical thinking as regards this country(Uganda) and its future. You have either deliberately chosen to think its not your business or if you have thought about it,you've not stretched your thinking beyond the confines of your experience and popularist views around you. Of course there are those of us who are consciously thinking and studying about this country and the rest of the world and trying to match it to where it is from where it should be.There's a general malaise among Ugandans that usually catches successful people when their success appears so sudden. They tend to  attribute it to a single factor in their struggle and more often than not their success becomes the biggest stumbling block to their future successes. A story will be told of an oppressed people who were liberated at certain point and to this new found freedom they made merry for three decades and at no point did they consider laying strategies of ensuring continuity of this freedom.The only strategies they laid were those of how to ensure continuity of gratitude to their liberator. For years they thought they were free and never questioned anything that went on, they surrendered their thinking to their "liberator". It was always a multi-factorial process not attributable to an individual alone but several other things happening concurrently, this they did not see. They were  blinded by abrupt success and became disenfranchised. They practically saved their brains for other things that they considered more important,so they drove costly cars on potholed roads,they constructed their houses in unplanned neighbourhoods, they believed the line between police and army is thin and actually others thought these forces were meant to be the same,they thought electricity was a luxury for the urban rich, their neighbour's child's education in a poor third world school was the neighbour's business alone and so long as they afforded duplicated drugs from India their health was guaranteed. Little did they know that all of life was multifactorial, a mistake at one stage would affect the outcome of the whole process. They despised contradictory views and alienated those holding such views. They were actually building a new wall for around themselves years after they had managed a prison escape. These are the challenges of abrupt success and failure to predict a pattern of future events and avoid the pitfalls. The deception of a warm bed!!!