Idiocy is: When they tell us to go to hell, we ask how to get there
Locals from Shakahola Centre help dig up graves at Shakahola forest in Malindi, Kenya part of the 800 acres linked with cult leader Paul Mackenzie of Good News International Church on June 6, 2023. PHOTO | WACHIRA MWANGI | NMG
After the harrowing reports from the Kenyan coast about mass murder, I went on a search for some understanding of what had happened — again — and why it happens with such frightening frequency.
Why would people (assumed to be thinking human beings) get themselves into a state of mind that renders them so susceptible to do things that are unthinkable to the ordinary mind? And why does it recur so often, and why do we never learn?
