Playing with hypotheticals
Nairobi's traffic presents us with a conundrum. We have eight hour workdays with about an additional four spent commuting. The commute can be so taxing, over-filled matatus or the contrary ones that just can't seem to fill up fast enough, traffic police testing your patience by flagging on traffic from all lanes except the one you're in. Name it and somebody has already gone through it. I've been part of the matrix for a considerable amount of time now and there's a lot to observe, it is so interesting. The mass transit system and all of its deplorable horrors sometimes presents very interesting unfactored events. I've talked of the Rorschach test before, it's better known as the ink blot test. A blot of ink is spilled on a page and the subject of the test is told to make out a definitive object of their own definition from it. It's a test to basically encourage the subject to project what they 'see'. I look at the commute as a third space, cont...