You hit the nail on the head. Yes khat enables people to live in their own bubble, it is another problem. A man will think he is sleeping in a apartment when he is actually sleeping on a dirt road with flooded water when high on khat. However the youth are actually getting educated more nowadays and a lot of them don't chew khat that much compared to the oldies. This year in the summer I was at Hargeisa, there is was this shop I use to buy things from, so one day I asked the cashier why there is no paved roads in Hargeisa and why is there loads of trash on the road. He conceded that local government barely exists and that the government actually steals the taxes collected instead of using it to fix Hargeisa roads. So it was a sign of relief that a lot of people are actually waking up to the reality. Lol as the suturing your own wounds, funnily enough you reminded me when I was in Burco I was looking for a pharmacy that sells finger bandage and guess what the so called pharmacies don't even sell bandages. I was like how are you going to call this place a pharmacy when it lacks the basics, they think expired pills make up a pharmacy.
Alhamdulillah the youth don't indulge in the scourge of the Horn - khat usage. Also, methinks people walk around with open wounds just waiting for them to heal themselves. And yeah, pharmacies need an upgrade.