The Great Redundancy: A Manifesto on Spiritual Sovereignty
The Architecture of the Proxy To exist within a traditionalist religious framework is to live in a state of perpetual mediation. For the better part of my life, my relationship with the Divine was not a private sanctuary, but a community asset managed by self-appointed gatekeepers. In the Kenyan landscape, specifically within the rigid, collectivist nucleus of a religious household, faith is rarely a personal journey; it is a social performance. For years, I inhabited a "Muslim mask," an exhausting and meticulous curation of piety designed to satisfy a maternal script and a societal thirst for conformity. These middlemen, preachers, family members, and the leaders of dogmatic "cults" operate on a transactional model. They offer a sense of belonging in exchange for the total surrender of one’s subjective purpose. I have concluded that this entire infrastructure is fundamentally bankrupt. The Violation of the Performative Mask The act of wearing a mask is not merely a...
