Monday, January 5, 2015

An Irish perspective on Africa

Via Les

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This report by K. Myers appeared in The Irish Independent:

Somalia is not a humanitarian disaster; it is an evolutionary disaster.

The current drought is not the worst in 50 years, as the BBC, and all the aid organizations claim.

It is nothing compared to the droughts in 1960/61 or 73/74. There are continuing droughts every 5 years or so. It's just that there are now four times the population; having been kept alive by famine relief, supplied by aid organizations, over the past 50 years. So, of course, the effects of any drought now, is a famine.

They cannot even feed themselves in a normal rainfall year.

Worst yet, the effects of these droughts, and poor nutrition in the first 3 years of the a child's life, have a lasting effect on the development of the infant brain, so that if they survive, they will never achieve a normal IQ .

Consequently, they are selectively breeding a population who cannot be educated, let alone one that is not being educated: a recipe for disaster.

We are seeing this impact now, and it can only exacerbate, to the detriment of their neighbours, and their environment as well. This scenario can end only in an even worse disaster, with even worse suffering, for those benighted people and their descendants.

Eventually, some mechanism will intervene, be it war, disease or starvation.

So what do we do?

Let them starve?

What a dilemma for our Judeo/Christian/Islamic Ethos, as well as Hindu/Buddhist morality.

This is beginning to happen in Kenya, Ethiopia, and other countries in Asia, like Pakistan.

Is this the beginning of the end of civilization?

AFRICA is giving nothing to anyone outside Africa, apart from AIDS and new diseases.

Even as we see African states refusing to take action to restore something resembling civilization in Zimbabwe, the Begging Bowl for Ethiopia is being passed around to us outside of Africa, yet again.

It is nearly 25 years since the famous Feed The World campaign began in Ethiopia, 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 children starving.

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 low IQ, AK 47-bearing moron, siring children whenever the whim takes him, and blaming the world because he is uneducated, poor and left behind.

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, hand wringing, letter writing wrathful individuals, 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 Irish Famine, with this or that lazy analogy. There is no comparison. Within 20 years of the Famine, the Irish population was down by 30%.

Over the equivalent period, thanks to western food, the Mercedes 10-wheel truck and the Lockheed Hercules planes, Ethiopia's population 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, AK 47-toting, khat-chewing, girl-circumcising, permanently tumescent layabouts, housing pirates of the ocean.

Indeed, we now have almost an entire continent of sexually hyperactive, illiterate indigents, with tens of millions of people who only survive because of help from the outside world or allowances by the semi communist Governments they voted for, money supplied by borrowing it from the World Bank!!

This dependency has not stimulated political prudence or common sense.

Indeed, voodoo idiocy seems to be in the ascendant, with the 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 AIDS infection.

Needless to say, poverty, hunger and societal meltdown have not prevented idiotic wars involving Tigre, Uganda, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea etc, etc.

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.

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' program 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 program 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 (to Ireland) or America.

Yes, that's an idea.........

16 comments:

  1. I never bought into the "Feed the starving kids" scam from the beginning. I am not a good Baptist, I refused to donate to the Lottie Moon Charities and would actively discourage people to do so... That the fruits of their charity are now coming back to haunt us. My fervent wish is the arrest and conviction and subsequent punishment of these food for African kids scam artists be to live among them in Africa sharing the same hovels and food resources and mutilations. I bet if they survive would sing a different tune once they got home.

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    1. My fervent wish is the arrest and conviction and subsequent punishment of these food for African kids scam artists be to live among them in Africa sharing the same hovels and food resources and mutilations.

      Yes, Sir.

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  2. The solution is obvious: Sterilization. At least don't let them do this to another generation.

    Solution #2: Cut them off and let them chose for themselves what hell best suits them. There is plenty of evidence that food assistance puts local farmers out of business. No one can compete with free food. And it is the pinnacle of arrogance to decide that we are so wise and wonderful that we know what standard of living is best for everyone. Shut off the aid and let them be.

    --Hale.

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    1. Sterilization.

      & listen to the liberals scream.:) In the thirties as I remember, Virginia had a sterilization program for those on welfare who continued to have children and my country doctor father was involved it in as well as all others I assume.

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  3. And when they do get here they will vote Democrat.

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  4. Dang - the Truth Tellers are finally coming out of hiding. I agree with the bottom-line obvious unstated conclusion: USA: Stop all foreign (military and humanitarian) aid to all countries, regardless of continent or declared benefit. Stop paying the UN to spew hate on our own soil and move that Abomination out of our country forthwith. Allowing one to stew in one's own petard is the only humane thing to do..

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  5. Stop all foreign (military and humanitarian) aid to all countries, regardless of continent or declared benefit. Stop paying the UN to spew hate on our own soil and move that Abomination out of our country forthwith.

    Amen.

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  6. AIDS originated in Africa due the the eating of bush-meat (because there is nothing else to eat), including chimpanzees and orangutans which are similar to humans. (There is a reason there is a natural revulsion to cannibalism--- it is BAD For YOU!. Stupid humans learned this by figuring out what "kuru" is caused by. Why BSE -mad cow disease - developed. )

    The spread of ebola to humans was also one that took the route from bats---> gorillas ---> humans. Mostly due to population explosion. Both originated in the republic of Congo.

    The spread of AIDs will not be halted, contained or stopped in Africa due to the inability of Africans to recognize or understand germ theory and practice safe sex. Their "culture" is one of infidelity, the belief that having sex with a virgin will cure them of AIDS and that disease is caused by witchcraft and voodoo curses. The concept of rape does not exist in Africa because women are substandard and do not have rights- in general.

    Any semi intelligent African that escapes the dark continent and comes here, or to europe, doesn't return home after getting educated to help their fellow man. Telling.

    The USA is quickly becoming a similar third world banana republic where the undesirables are rewarded for procreating and the intelligent slave away to fund their existence.

    I believe that putz Bono recently admitted publicly that aid to Africa doesn't help. After a decade, it's still the same. Or worse.

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    1. The USA is quickly becoming a similar third world banana republic where the undesirables are rewarded for procreating and the intelligent slave away to fund their existence.

      Thanks, from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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  7. Its all been said before but here I go again. For people who are in such a dire situation, they sure have no problem breeding. Hypersexual was a word used. Just like AIDs. They get sick, they quit breeding. But when given all kinds of medication a vitamins they feel good and start screwing again and spread the disease. Lack of proper nutrition does limit brain growth leaving Africa oe wherever generations of sub literate consumers who lack the intelligence to take care of themselves. So they end up Warlords who arm them and they kill without conscience. Then some dumbass places these souless killers on a boat to America where they either live as criminals or suck up our rescources (or both). The solution-GET TO F#@K OUT OF THERE! Let nature take its couse. Africans flourished for thousands of years on their own without the intervention of a bunch of dumbassed do gooders. My last little rant here is-HOW MUCH OF THE MONEY THAT AMERICANS SEND TO THE TV CHARITIES ACTUALLY HELPS ANYBODY IN NEED???

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    1. Let nature take its couse. Africans flourished for thousands of years on their own without the intervention of a bunch of dumbassed do gooders

      Yup, novel thought to many though. :)

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  8. Weren't these people even born with any instincts? Then the excess from the richest
    natural resource enriched continent comes to invade my country, bringing with them
    the destruction of my country. There is no solution other than to stop the rapid growth in population. How do you do that? Simple. Let nature take its course. History shows very plainly that, left alone, populations adapt to their sustainable level. That's happened with primitive societies like the bushmen of the Kalahari, Australian Aborigines and Eskimos. They adapted their family sizes to the level of what they could feed. The same happens in the animal kingdom. This is what the white man
    is doing without having to think about it. We are not suppose to compete on which
    race is going to multiply the most to take over. What about what the planet can
    sustain. But the Africans do not think that way. Somebodies have always taken
    care of them. Let them go down. The Lifeboat Ethics: "The less provident and able will multiply at the expense of the abler and more provident bringing eventual ruin upon all."

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    1. The same happens in the animal kingdom.

      Precisely, let them fend for themselves.

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  9. The author wrote an excellent followup piece here:

    http://iluvsa.blogspot.com/2010/09/kevin-myers-harsh-as-they-were-my-views.html

    Daniel

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