The depression conversation on today's local daily is abstractive. The author doesn't delve into the dehumanizing dynamic of the impact of Imperial capitalism on black bodies & it's dehumanizing maiden;neoliberalism. Many Kenyans know there's something fundamentally wrong with,

the current predatory neoliberalism, how it destroys local industries, fuels the marketization of public social services and the commercialization of sacred and priceless aspects of life fueling unbelievable greed and soulless accumulation through stealing.

Imperial capitalism is dehumanizing and given that it's the domineering (and dominant) social theory worldwide, it's effects on the human psyche especially for those on the periphery who are economically exploited definitely suffer racism, impoverishment and mental health issues.

We have to go back to #IfSlaveryWasAChoice and look at what 500 years of feudal/industrial/financial/disaster capitalism have done to those who aren't at the core of the capitalist system in Europe and America. Of course those people suffer mental health issue but we aren't,

talking about them here, are we? We think of Trump as a misogynist & racist for wanting to grab cats but we wouldn't call HRC sexist yet she oversaw bombing of Libya & Syria destroying the lives of millions of women. We worry of sexist/racist vibe but not racist/sexist policies.

We think Kim Jong Un is a cray guy for holding millions of people in hermetic slave-like conditions but say little of a black man bombing an African country under the pretext if democracy and ended up creating the worst black slave auction in nearly 200 years.

The global North continues to oppress and 'other' the Global South through skewed treaties and pacts under the Imperial superstructure and bomb them when they don't comply. When huge segments of the population is sick then the problem is social; it's in the systems & structures.

But neoliberalism has taught us hyper-individualism and blaming the victims so we tell people to see shrinks but we don't question the social origins of mental and emotional health problems and how they shape the lived experience of many people especially the young.

It's useless to invoke & call up shrinks when the sufferers still have to go back to the same toxic socialeconomic system which messed up their mental health. The Kenyan society is unbelievably violent but we don't see it that way because we have a narrow definition of violence.

The neoliberal madness, the unbelievably violent national soul, schizophrenic national psyche, institutionalized amnesia, plantation economy, primitive and murderous elites, the incomplete national identity; I'm surprised we aren't all struggling with mental and emotional health.

The systems want to break us, to dispirit our soul, to render us unfeeling, cheering the pain of others, drawing glee from their misfortune. Just about every aspect of this plantation is designed to gradually render us a little less human, less feeling, less empathetic.

We need a new social theory of development that is dignifying & humanizing, away from neoliberal capitalism. We need a nationwide Fanon-ism that clinically explores the contradictions at the heart of the Kenyan society; its aches & blindsides, and their impact on individuals.

Otherwise we'll keep medicating ourselves and our loved ones; we'll keep dealing with the 'sadness that doesn't lift'; this problem that has no name. We'll keep losing people and see others suffer the weight of mental ill health without remedying our sick societal systems.