Dear Santa, this is what's wrong with the world...

Step 1 : Google White Man's Burden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man's_Burden

The following post is a critique of this blog:
http://problemsfree.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html

I will go in structured order until I am inspired to rant.
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Actually, I don't fee like finishing this complaint right now.  But it pisses me off that people say garbage like "These people need to be saved by OUR god!" The world has been damaged enough by the good intentions of pretentious Whites. "Go to their country and sell fruit and vegetables!" It puts in value the ignorance of these westerners... Africa has it's own markets, it's own supermarkets, it's own food stands. To go there and give away food would damage their economy and hurt them in the long run, and to sell it would pose a myriad of other problems.

It pisses me off that people turn to God for solutions to disasters. Humans are not for sale. True. "Let's help these children because love is the answer to everything kind" "Angels, they're everywhere. They love us so much that they spend their time looking after us. Making sure we are doing the right thing and keep our promises and live up to the plans God has given us all." "Help fight hunger." "Spread love through the world." "Stop whale fishing." "There is no such thing as an unwanted child in the eyes of God." "Face your problems, ask God for help. "Disabled people in need of help to fulfill their dreams, make the change." We all belong together. "We need everyone's support to change the world. Believe and miracles will happen."


.... This person really pisses me off. Partly because she/he is right, partly because she doesn't have any solutions and yet preaches, and finally because I know that telling people what is the right way to live doesn't do anything positive. And she also doesn't know the whole story behind whatever. The only thing it does to us is make us feel bad about watching a picture of a boy eating shit right out of a cow's ass. What about the cameraman who snapped this picture? Yay if he was trying to send a message. And also, I really am pissed off about all that positivism. The world right now, I think, is a hard place to live in. People die abandoned in ditches all the time. Prostitutes, homeless people, salarymen working the gears of life like a donkeys round the grain "moule." Rich people too pathetic to find their own happiness. Rich people so embedded in their world that they don't care to see anything else. Poor folk with large families and small wallets. People that suffer. People that walk on. People that pretend not to see. People that can't see. If there is a God, he says "help yourselves." 


I'm tired of the media, tired of this worthless illusion of what the world is. Africa, Senegal, poor countries are more than whatever misery we see in shows or pictures. And besides, there's little that we can do as outsiders to help these people; to truly reach a long lasting "better world", undesirables must either be bleached from the world, or those countries that struggle with these kinds of problems must get the political, financial and social strength to do it themselves. Thus, Foreign aid offers limited relief, and rightly so. If we are unwilling to help every single human being, then we either have to help only those we see and acknowledge that we are unjust, or help them help themselves. It is not the white man's burden nor the West's place to help "lesser" societies or to raise them out of catastrophe.


Does that mean that we should just let them be? ... Maybe, I don't know what else to do. Thinking "the world is a terrible place" "Or people shouldn't do that", or saying "We have to act!" but not saying how or when or what or where or who doesn't get us anywhere. What should we do, then? Hmmm. Change our perceptions. See the good things that are worth preserving, rather than the bad things that need to be destroyed. We can't destroy them anyway. Not without going beyond ourselves. 


Of course, I'm just a kid, and I also saying "This is what needs to be done". I'm perhaps not being as dramatic though. My thoughts are immature, but I know that I'm right. We don't know nearly enough about the world to complain that it's a bad place to live. Maybe it is. But if I lived in a terrible place, then I don't think I'd focus on the terrible things. That would make me just want to fight the westerners, if I knew what was going on in their backyards. And then where would I be? Just another generation of oppressors born from oppression.