 “How much morality is there in saving an Ethiopian child from starvation today, for it to survive to a life of brutal circumcision, poverty, hunger, violence and sexual abuse, resulting in another half-dozen such wide-eyed children, with comparably jolly little lives ahead of them? Of course, it might make you feel better, which is a prime reason for so much charity. But that is not good enough.” -- Kevin Myers Africa is Giving Nothing to Anyone - Apart from AIDS |
So why on earth should I do anything to encourage further catastrophic demographic growth in that country? Where is the logic? There is none. To be sure, there are two things saying that logic doesn't count.
One is my conscience, and the other is the picture, yet again, of another wide-eyed child, yet again, gazing, yet again, at the camera, which yet again, captures the tragedy of . . .
Sorry. My conscience has toured this territory on foot and financially. Unlike most of you, I have been to Ethiopia; like most of you, I have stumped up the loot to charities to stop starvation there. The wide-eyed boy-child we saved, 20 years or so ago, is now a priapic, Kalashnikov-bearing hearty, siring children whenever the whim takes him.
There is, no doubt a good argument why we should prolong this predatory and dysfunctional economic, social and sexual system; but I do not know what it is. There is, on the other hand, every reason not to write a column like this.
Alas, that wretched country is not alone in its madness. Somewhere, over the rainbow, lies Somalia, another fine land of violent, Kalashnikov-toting, khat-chewing, girl-circumcising, permanently tumescent layabouts.
Indeed, we now have almost an entire continent of sexually hyperactive indigents, with tens of millions of people who only survive because of help from the outside world.
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Africa is giving nothing to anyone -- apart from AIDS
Kevin Myers, Irish Independent
Thursday July 10 2008
 'Africa's peoples are outstripping their resources, and causing catastrophic ecological degradation,' writes Kevin Myers. A sick child waits in line to be screened at Giara Clinic, Southern Ethiopia |
No. It will not do. Even as we see African states refusing to take action to restore something resembling civilisation in Zimbabwe, the begging bowl for Ethiopia is being passed around to us, yet again. It is nearly 25 years since Ethiopia's (and Bob Geldof's) famous Feed The World campaign, and in that time Ethiopia's population has grown from 33.5 million to 78 million today.
So why on earth should I do anything to encourage further catastrophic demographic growth in that country? Where is the logic? There is none. To be sure, there are two things saying that logic doesn't count.
One is my conscience, and the other is the picture, yet again, of another wide-eyed child, yet again, gazing, yet again, at the camera, which yet again, captures the tragedy of . . .
Sorry. My conscience has toured this territory on foot and financially. Unlike most of you, I have been to Ethiopia; like most of you, I have stumped up the loot to charities to stop starvation there. The wide-eyed boy-child we saved, 20 years or so ago, is now a priapic, Kalashnikov-bearing hearty, siring children whenever the whim takes him.
There is, no doubt a good argument why we should prolong this predatory and dysfunctional economic, social and sexual system; but I do not know what it is. There is, on the other hand, every reason not to write a column like this.
It will win no friends, and will provoke the self-righteous wrath of, well, the self-righteous, letter-writing wrathful, a species which never fails to contaminate almost every debate in Irish life with its sneers and its moral superiority. It will also probably enrage some of the finest men in Irish life, like John O'Shea, of Goal; and the Finucane brothers, men whom I admire enormously. So be it.
But, please, please, you self-righteously wrathful, spare me mention of our own Famine, with this or that lazy analogy. There is no comparison. Within 20 years of the Famine, the Irish population was down by 30pc. Over the equivalent period, thanks to western food, the Mercedes 10-wheel truck and the Lockheed Hercules, Ethiopia's has more than doubled.
Alas, that wretched country is not alone in its madness. Somewhere, over the rainbow, lies Somalia, another fine land of violent, Kalashnikov-toting, khat-chewing, girl-circumcising, permanently tumescent layabouts.
Indeed, we now have almost an entire continent of sexually hyperactive indigents, with tens of millions of people who only survive because of help from the outside world.
This dependency has not stimulated political prudence or commonsense. Indeed, voodoo idiocy seems to be in the ascendant, with the next president of South Africa being a firm believer in the efficacy of a little tap water on the post-coital penis as a sure preventative against infection. Needless to say, poverty, hunger and societal meltdown have not prevented idiotic wars involving Tigre, Uganda, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea etcetera.
 “Children were reported to be most affected by the economic crisis in Zimbabwe. Chronic malnutrition affected a third of all children. The education system had almost stopped functioning, due to the general economic collapse, prohibitive fees for both government and private schools and lack of teachers, who were not only underpaid but were harassed and threatened by militias, including youth miltias.” |
Broad brush-strokes, to be sure. But broad brush-strokes are often the way that history paints its gaudier, if more decisive, chapters. Japan, China, Russia, Korea, Poland, Germany, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the 20th century have endured worse broad brush-strokes than almost any part of Africa.
They are now -- one way or another -- virtually all giving aid to or investing in Africa, whereas Africa, with its vast savannahs and its lush pastures, is giving almost nothing to anyone, apart from AIDS.
Meanwhile, Africa's peoples are outstripping their resources, and causing catastrophic ecological degradation. By 2050, the population of Ethiopia will be 177 million: The equivalent of France, Germany and Benelux today, but located on the parched and increasingly protein-free wastelands of the Great Rift Valley.
So, how much sense does it make for us actively to increase the adult population of what is already a vastly over-populated, environmentally devastated and economically dependent country?
How much morality is there in saving an Ethiopian child from starvation today, for it to survive to a life of brutal circumcision, poverty, hunger, violence and sexual abuse, resulting in another half-dozen such wide-eyed children, with comparably jolly little lives ahead of them? Of course, it might make you feel better, which is a prime reason for so much charity. But that is not good enough.
For self-serving generosity has been one of the curses of Africa. It has sustained political systems which would otherwise have collapsed.
It prolonged the Eritrean-Ethiopian war by nearly a decade. It is inspiring Bill Gates' programme to rid the continent of malaria, when, in the almost complete absence of personal self-discipline, that disease is one of the most efficacious forms of population-control now operating.
If his programme is successful, tens of millions of children who would otherwise have died in infancy will survive to adulthood, he boasts. Oh good: then what?I know. Let them all come here. Yes, that's an idea.
kmyers@independent.ie
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Charity and the savage
By The Narrator, Majority Rights
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 01:51 AM
There is an old, outdated saying that goes, “Charity begins at home”. I say outdated because, obviously, today charity begins at least a thousand miles from home. Whether it is flying half-way around the world to bring their self-righteous selves to the savages or just simply bringing the savages back home, the missionaries and charitable types love to seek out those who are least like themselves and take the opportunity to bask in their own benevolence.
And to note, I use the word “savage” in the true spirit of these people who travel about the globe and dazzle various primitives with their presence. After all, charity automatically requires one person to be in a superior position and another to be in an inferior position.
No wonder then that the most charitable people often strike us as the most arrogant and pompous. So referring to the beneficiaries of such self-aggrandizing types as savages or primitives is only done in deference to the social vantage point the aggrandizers enjoy.
Actually, this kind of super-charity (as opposed to the kind that flows naturally back and forth between peoples of similar racial, social and cultural standings) finds its greatest acts of giving through indirect compulsory sacrifice on the part of others. For example, if you and your church/charity arrange to bring a savage into America, you are, through force and cohesion, compelling other members of your community into giving as well. Their taxes and resources will be automatically re-distributed to the savage through healthcare, education, housing and so on. This also happens when tax dollars are sent abroad for charitable purposes.
This, then, is not the community giving but rather the charitable taking. Thus charity has now become an act of aggression which ultimately leads to the despoiling and plundering of communities and (eventually) nations.
We can see this playing out in places like California where dozens of hospitals have been closed due to the financial strain caused by the rapid influx of the poor and needy from Latin America. Or in once peaceful neighborhoods turned into violence-filled ghettos. Or in the spread across the nation of new and renewed (once defeated) diseases. It can also be seen in Africa where charity (in the form of food and medicine supplied by The West) has allowed/facilitated the already violent and starving populations of dysfunctional nations to explode, increasing the violence and poverty by a factor of ten.
This modern mutation of charity has appeared in two separate yet markedly similar groups: White liberals and White Christians. Both groups have a strong compulsion to send other people’s tax dollars across the sea to non-Whites while at the same time importing other non-Whites into the West, compelling the rest of us to fork over even more tax dollars to pay for their housing, medical care, education and (probably later) imprisonment. They are two groups with the same Achilles’ heel.
Narcissism!
I once saw a documentary in which a young man described his aspiration towards rock-stardom and what he hoped that would bring to him. He said, roughly, “I’d like to be a famous rock-star so I could, like, go visit some sick kid in a hospital who’s dying wish was to meet me.”
That completely sums up the motivation for White Christian/Liberal Charity. Egotistically, the sky is the limit! It’s amazing how much moral superiority an act of overt humbleness can generate.
And, of course, Corporate America loves this kind of “charity”. In fact, its motivations and cost-displacement mirrors the White Christian/Liberal. It imports cheap labor which works at half the wage citizens do while transferring the costs onto those very same citizens (taxpayers) in the form of, yes, housing, medical care, education and (probably later) imprisonment.
Adding to all of this are the people who are seemingly hypnotized by the concept of The Poor.
 “Children were reported to be most affected by the economic crisis in Zimbabwe. Chronic malnutrition affected a third of all children. The education system had almost stopped functioning, due to the general economic collapse, prohibitive fees for both government and private schools and lack of teachers, who were not only underpaid but were harassed and threatened by militias, including youth miltias.” |
U.S. a Place of Miracles for Somali Refugees
TUCSON — The white wooden door swung open and the dazed African villagers stepped into their new home. It was a modest apartment with secondhand furniture and a stove in need of repairs. But to Osman Yarrow, his wife and five children, refugees from Somalia’s civil war, it seemed like a place of miracles.
Clean water coursed out of gleaming faucets, an astonishing luxury for a rural family who had spent more than a decade in mud huts without indoor plumbing. “Red for hot,” Mr. Yarrow repeated wonderingly as he held his fingers in the steady stream. “Blue for cold.”
There were flush toilets instead of pit latrines and beds instead of straw mats. But what Mr. Yarrow treasured most on his first day in his American home was a sense of security. In Somalia, he witnessed the execution of his father and son by marauding militias. In Kenya, his family huddled in bleak refugee camps while bullets sang in the night.
Here, he listened to the squeals of his children and the hum of a contraption called an air conditioner. “We will sleep without hearing gunshots,” he said. “We’re finally living in a safe place.”
Mr. Yarrow, 40, represents the changing face of America’s refugees. Since May, more than 200 members of his tribe, the Somali Bantu, have been flown to 22 cities across the United States, the first wave of one of the government’s largest recent refugee resettlement efforts.
By the end of next year, officials plan to resettle nearly 13,000 Bantu, who were enslaved and persecuted for generations in Somalia until civil war scattered them to desolate and violent refugee camps in Kenya in the early 1990’s.
Now, needless to say, there are people less fortunate than others. But what I am speaking of is The Poor, not a fact of global economic life but a spiritual condition: those who, in the mind of the White Christian/Liberal, have no other quality but being The Poor. Never are The Poor the present or future thieves, drug-dealers, rapists, murderers and crack-whores who we see in real life as comprising the permanent underclass. Never do White Christians/Liberals think of what hideous abuses and atrocious behaviors they will likely enable when they “give to The Poor”.
Nope, to the White Christian/Liberal the means justify the ends. And if that involves importing a group of refugees from a ramshackle country who will, once here, go about raping and/or killing American citizens, well then, so be it. For the White Christian/Liberal, that warm fuzzy feeling of “having done the right thing”, of having procured the requisite satisfaction with self, is far more important than some rape or murder on the distant horizon.
Ironically, and even when they are sincere, White Christians/Liberals are replacing themselves by bringing refugees into the West and aiding population growth in the Third World. Their beneficiaries do not share their charitable inclinations. The White Christian/Liberal has no non-White counterpart.
So what of healthy, in-group altruism? Obviously, it replaces the narcissistic version with a more general notion of paying into the pot from which we will all draw a wage of comfort one day. The cost stays with the giver … or volunteer, since volunteering is a highly sincere form of in-group altruism. In this, the more alike two individuals are the more honest the exchange of assistance will be. Historically, when two parties of dissimilar race/ethnicity engage in assistance, it more often than not leads to usury.
Reciprocity is beautiful. Helping and aiding those of your own kind ensures greater community harmony and a better chance for the spread of your genes which those of your kindred will share.
Assistance given to those outside of your own kind, meanwhile, provides no physical benefit to the giver. In fact the dispersal of aid to those outside your own group diminishes such resources amongst kindred peoples and, therefore, is detrimental to the community.
In the strongest terms possible Charity is, at best, plain old fashion hubris and at worst a deep seated pathology. The White Christian/Liberal will drive past their local nursing homes, homeless shelters, etc, where far too many elderly Whites wither away poor, sick and alone, and head for the airport to fly off to exotic locales to find someone more deserving (non-Whites) of their glorious selves.
Charity then, if it is to be motivated by anything other than narcissism and arrogance, must not only begin at home but stay at home. But since the very concept behind the word will always appeal to the pride of fools, it doubtless never will. Arrogance will nurture it till it bears its ultimate fruit, the desolation of Western communities. And that is hardly hyperbole, since we can see that very thing happening to the West, and a portion of the despoiling of our nation at the hands of non-Whites has been justified in the name of charity.
And so there is a contemporary analysis of the motivations of the modern manifestation of the Charitable. Their actions are not done in the name of love, kindness, mercy or benevolence, for those are gifts that can never be given to strangers but, with a sincere heart, only to those of your own kin. Their actions are done with as much societal pomp as possible to adorn their own self-image, while the civilization that raised them up slides into a semi-functional state.
In conclusion … if you have something with which you can afford to part, then give it only to those whom you know (as in close friends and family) ... and those who you know will actually need it, and will use it well.
The Narrator blogs at Signals From The Brink
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