Day: November 16, 2007

It’s not just American politicians *spit*, Academia Nut Fruitcakes, Sub-moral Religionist “Leaders” and their ilk who are destroying the concept of charity with handouts. I confess to participating in the less-than-charitable “feed to poor/end world hunger” scam, myself.

Go ahead. While I stopped at “donating” 700 grains of rice “through the United Nations to end world hunger” via the freerice.com page (because the method was so dreadfully boring as much as any other reason), I know that in good conscience I ought to have stopped sooner.

1. “United Nations”–that alone should assure that any donated rice is diverted to line the pockets of bureaucrats and petty dictators and politicians, oh my!
2. Feed a man for a day, starve a society for a lifetime.

Think that second is too harsh? Well, perhaps. But feeding people consistently (consistently subsistence food, that is) and insuring that they are dependant upon the providers of that food (primarily, it seems, to insure the continuance of the “charity”) while specifically NOT providing them with the means as well as motivation to provide for themselves can be the cruelest tyranny of all.

For a contrarian commentary on Western “charity” read Kim du Toit’s Let Africa Sink. Read it again. And again.

End world hunger? By donating food through the U.N.?!?!? Not going to happen.

Little sidebar: I once proposed a mentoring program for a homeless shelter/food bank to mentor steady “customers” of that “charity business” that provided food and shelter to perpetual indigents and folks already on welfare and food stamps, etc, and employment primarily to people who… were steady customers of the homeless shelter/food bank and to some libtards who had no other marketable skills. Not a welcome proposal. What?!? Actually give the few who really wanted genuine help a leg up on finding and keeping jobs that would remove them as “customers” of the “charity” and–potentially–deprive the “charity” of its reason for existing?!?!? A completely mad idea!

But, if you want to play a vocabulary game for a while and finess yourself into believing–for a short while at least–that you actually are helping to “end world hunger” then go ahead and play the “Guess this word, donate 10 grains of rice” game. I played long enough to feed a third world family for a day or so. Provided they actually got the rice. And had the means to cook it. And clean water to cook it in. And…

But they’ll still not have the (physical or more importantly cultural means to grow their own. And that is the point of the whole “end world hunger by giving a man a fish for a day” scam.

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Here’s a slightly redacted re-run from a third world county post from August ’05 that I was reminded of as the result of a recent email exchange. From simply remarking on my then non-existant comment policy, I rabbit trailed off into the ether… or did I?

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[When commenting] …try to either make sense or be completely (and humorously) nonsensical when you do. I don’t have a formal comment policy. [Well, I do now–see the left sidebar.] I don’t care one single solitary bit what “kind” of language you use. But anything that presents itself as a serious comment but is riddled with fallacies (_1_, _2_, _3_) will be subject to mocking deconstruction (if I have time and feel like expending the effort), deleted as too assinine for public exposure or left as the commenter’s own self-parody—the deciding factor: my personal whim.

Many people exercise common sense when formulating their comments. I can appreciate that. Some exercise their sense of humor, and I can appreciate that, usually no matter how weird their sense of humor* may be. Others, and they are few indeed, actually learned in school or elsewhere how to make clear, reasoned arguments. Rare, and greatly appreciated. People I stand to learn much from.

But some just have no business even having an opinion, because they are both too ill-informed and are idiots (usually, as I have said elsewhere, self-made idiots), unable to recognize the value (or even the existence) of arguments from facts or reason, taking their preconceptual biases as fact and building a “reality-based” fantasyland of idiotarian unreason on that shaky foundation.

Here’s a scary thought: Exposure to such could almost move one to accept Margaret Sanger’s arguments for eugenics. As Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “Three generations of imbeciles is enough.” In light of the current trend among liberalists [and most so-called “conservative” presidential candidates *sigh*], Holmes’ comment begins to have a certain appeal…

But, no. Better to remove much of the shielding preventing a Darwinist microevolution of the race… Get the “gummint” outa the cradle-to-grave protection racket. Starve the academicians. Feed the (NON-POLITICAL) scientists. Make artists—all of ‘em—either live or die in the marketplace (no more NEA subsidies). Castrate lawyers making their living off liability suits. No, really: castrate. A lower testosterone level will help. Let folks take responsibility for their own stupidities. Remove the heads of politicians who come up with “great society” ideas that ruin families, destroy communities and enhance their own political power. Yes, their heads. They’ve not been using them for any good anyway.

It’s a big job, but these small steps toward re-introducing the idea of personal responsibility [would be a good start]. And that would put paid to the Frank Roaches, Dan Blathers, Nancy Pelosis, Teddy Kennedys, Jean Fraud sKerrys and all their ilk.

That it would eliminate many on the quasi-faux-conservative side of the coin as well would be a nice lil side benefit.

*Do note: humor is not always funny. Some of the most humorous of pieces can be dark, broody, macabre.

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