At a personal, societal and even strictly economic level, most of us are victims of capture. Then there’s the ever-present economic capture: the struggle to survive, with the hopes of even thriving. The net effect over time is a people who at best are cautiously optimistic, who project ideas and alternatives but rather quickly retreat from entertaining their pursuit, as the resignation to capture quickly takes over. These questions hardly evoke answers because they are posited as solutions, but still enveloped in the capture mentality. To get to that, however, we need to assess the captures in our lives and start resisting them at a personal and societal level.

Source: Daily Nation June 20, 2020 21:00 UTC