Andrew Sage

They can tell the difference between, you know, one form of politics and another.

It's not that they were just ready to turn court immediately.

I mean, some of them still had the fresh wounds of the trauma being inflicted by Eric Carey.

But it's because of that trauma that they were also sensitive to the potential of new traumas.

Call it paranoia, call it unist and right-thinking suspicion.

But they were wary of what was taking place.

And you know what didn't help?

It didn't help that, okay, so you know how some people, they read like one or two theory books and they start walking around like their head is three times bigger than it is.

They start walking around this kind of inflated sense of self-importance.

Yeah, unfortunately, that's exactly what started taking place among some members of the party.

They're reading all these books, all these thick books from Russia and Germany and Marx and Lenin and all these people.

And they're starting to carry themselves in a particular way.

With a level of arrogance and know-it-allness.

And this is Wilson in a society where, remember, we are fresh out of colonialism.

None of our independent nations are even 100 years old yet.

Much of the population still remember that colonial period and much of the population, like I mentioned before, needed changes to the education system because they didn't have educational opportunities.

So you had this vast educational inequality, right?

And then you have this New Jewel movement and some of its members are talking to you like you're stupid.

Because you didn't get to go to primary school.

You didn't read all the thick books that they read.