WORLD POVERTY

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A profile in 3rd World hopelessness

When one considers the paucity of aid that is going to Third World cultures,
one can only relate this to the fact that the majority of wealthy people
do not feel any pressing moral obligation to give the helping hand that
Africa especially not only deserves, but has more than paid for.
The general assumption is that whatever social deprivations colonialism
might have wrought on indigenous cultures, the damage has been more
than made up for by the technological advantages, and the spiritual salvation
brought in by western science, and our religious mission stations. The
corollary behind such hard-ass sentiments is that if Africa does not know
how to take full advantage of the blessings received, She has nobody to
blame but Herself. The former assumption is only half-true. What has not
been factored in, is that the introduction of advanced technology uprooted
Africa’s traditional agricultural base and when colonialism ended, it never
left behind enough trained and qualified native technicians to apply the
new industry effectively – at least not on the competitive world market.
The latter spiritual assumption is not only entirely untrue, but also quite
the reverse. The dogmatic introduction of a white man’s view of God
caused permanent and irreparable damage to the African psyche – they
suffered a devastating ancestral and spiritual insult from which they may
never fully recover.

In order to share in just a small measure, the depth of the spiritual identity
crisis that our culture has imposed on the House of Negro, imagine for
yourself if the Semite features of Jesus, his disciples, and the Jewish patriarchs
in general, were more accurately portrayed in our books and paintings
as looking more like Yassir Arafat, than say, Tab Hunter, or Charlton
Heston. You would then get some idea of how much more difficult it is for
the House of Negro, especially its children, to make a direct connection
with their outer physical form and the inner spiritual ideal of the white
God and his Aryan family that we have thrust upon them. If you add
this spiritual dilemma to the social, political, and technological vacuum
that the rapid collapse of colonialism brought down on their heads; without
their agricultural-based tribal traditions to fall back on, and no chance
for them to gradually develop the powerful trade guilds and secret mason
societies that once assisted the Christian Church in upholding the moral
fi ber of medieval Europe; while we also made the same difficult transition
from a rural agricultural base into a city-based industrial society, and the
centuries of upheaval we went through, even with all that support - then
one can have some idea of the present chaos and the reasons for the collapse
of moral integrity that Africa is going through right now. For us to
sit now on our high horse, after all the enslaved help Africa has given us
to enrich and secure our lives, and condemn the sexual promiscuity with
its attendant spread of the AIDS epidemic, the chronic unemployment,
rampant gangsterism, the mass starvation and tribal genocide that is going
on throughout Africa right now; and imply, that it is related to some
inherent weakness in the African psyche, and not accept a large portion
of the mass upheaval upon ourselves, continuing thereby to refuse our
full-hearted support, is not only a supreme irony, but also indicative of the
leadership confusion our western society is going through. Understanding
our historical part in the destruction of indigenous societies, without our
usual cover-up, will help us to more clearly see the root causes of our own
social and spiritual distortions. Hopefully we can find the correction with
which, and help provide the World with a better sense of leadership than
it has right now.

Extracted from Psyche-Genetics

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Burton, Speke , Mofat, Livingstone and Stanely stand tall in our history
books as heroic explorers and Christian missionaries who brought the light
of God to Darkest Africa . Very few have dared to challenge their exalted
status or censure the self-serving motivations behind their explorations.

Fewer have ever dared to lay the prime cause for the mass misery suffered
on the African continent today, and wherever slaves were exported, on the
distorted teachings of Christianity, and to a lesser extent, on Islam. Nor,
have we attributed some of the blame for that misery on the financial support
that came from the Church and the Banking Houses who financed the
military invasions, religious missions, mass enslavement of human souls,
and the occupation of their land.

The story of what happened to the ancient Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara in
Western Uganda, is a case study on the history of how 3rd World poverty
came about. It’s about the extreme deprivations wrought by Western civilization
on indigenous peoples. It recounts the cruel limitations of the current
global economic policies that entrench the on-going starvation level
of their present existence, and the hopelessness of their future prospects.
The history of this tiny Kingdom reveals a terrible legacy of man’s inhumanity
to man. It’s a story of military invasion, genocide, slavery, colonization
and economic exploitation. It is a grim account of the systematic
cultural destruction of an ancient social order, the devastating results of
which persists to this day and awaits yet for sober acknowledgment, atonement
and reparation. There is written proof of what actually happened in
the early days of exploitation.

The King of present day Bunyoro-Kitara is in possession of officially documented
evidence and population records recently smuggled out of the
British Colonial offi ce. These documents reveal how and to what extent,
his ancient African Kingdom was depopulated during the era of British
colonialism. Regional reports and personal memoirs written by British offi
cers; men like Baker, Colville, Lugard and Thruston, who were engaged
in looting, raping and killing; provide horrific accounts, couched in boastful
terms, of the thirty year war they waged in British East Africa decimating
the Bunyoro Kingdom and stripping them of their land and cattle herds
while in the process of putting down resistance to colonial rule.
Dunbar, an early writer on colonialism, estimates that during the years
1893-1897, the population of Bunyoro, which at the time was more
than two and a half million souls, was reduced to less than one hundred
thousand. This happened in the span of four years. It was the result of a
scorched earth policy that included military massacres, systematic mass
starvation, land appropriation, and epidemics of sickness. As if that wasn’t
enough, some thirty years later (1927) The British American Tobacco Corporation
(B.A.T.) managed to get a bill passed through Parliament, which
would add to the further demise of the Bunyoro people. The B.A.T. bills
mandated that the surviving members of the Bunyoro people must end
centuries of their native agriculture and grow tobacco for exclusive sale to
B.A.T. at prices set by them.

As a result of all this, the impoverished land-locked Kingdom remains
rudely employed today in a small corner of Uganda, growing a useless
crop for European consumption, for a dollar a day per family. It is entirely
dependent on the unsavory meager income paid to it by one of our giant
Corporations for a highly addictive narcotic plant that is poisoning its soil,
as well as the lungs of the millions of addicts who smoke it. There is no
hope of the Kingdom ever generating enough surplus capital to get itself
out of the bottomless pit that our Western culture has dug for them. They
can barely feed themselves and malnutrition is at epidemic proportions.
One can hardly imagine a more horrific tale of mass human rights abuse,
modern disregard and non-repayment for the deprivations we incurred.

The bulk of people in modern western nations have no clear idea of
the extent of historic abuses, such as this, in the Third World. And, as a
result, largely shrug their shoulders and turn their backs, as though we bear
no responsibility for the tales of mass genocide and mass starvation
that are currently taking place over there. Until this mass ignorance is
removed and our part in the current awful state of affairs is acknowledged,
crimes of epic proportions, initiated centuries ago by our own former policies,
will continue to resound and never be atoned for.

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More pity as usual: the more well-off should sacrifice their wealth and become poorer so that others can suffer less, no sense of responsibility and morals etc…

What really happened is that capitalists wanted the abundant resources of more harmonious & less exploitative cultures in exchange for their advice on how to improve their societies with privatisation and the technology/riches that go with it. So the land was privatised, arms were traded for resources to ensure the security of the newly privatised land. Enter atrocities, divisions and social collapse of cultures who did not have the same cultural/historical emergence of capitalism, plus all the violent reaction to this.

They were duped and now they are paying for it. The solution is far from simple. You can’t just take away the arms and privatisation, give money and food to the poor or simply stem the suffering in some other way. They are now tied to the capitalist exploiters and are stuck with a huge ongoing debt. Dropping the debt would halt borrowing power and disrupt free market conditions, making a stand against privisation. If they made a stand and shut out the developed nations, they would pay with international war.

3rd world poverty is extraneous - an unhelpful guilt trip - to the simple truth that developed nations need to sort out their systems.

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The solution is to begin a massive re-investment in human resources
Estabish Polytechs in each nation
sponsor our own unemployed graduates to train Africans in basic tradesman skills
with an educational ethic founded on sustainable stewardship
inside one generation they will be self-sustaining
and a generation later
equal partners in planet management
we all win that way

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Why not just teach economics better and more widely at school for the next few generations?

There’s been enough of a cultural shift in developed nations towards pity and charity - as is shown in you. But at the moment it’s just not known about, except that charity is annoying when it keeps showing you shit parts of the world and wants all your money. If the majority of people actually understood the - really basic facts - of what’s gone on, the cultural shift could be used to actually sort it properly - at its base…

Capitalism is a system for the minority, all it needs is for the majority to understand this and they’ll overthrow it with their numbers. This’ll sort all the poverty in your 3rd world countries - and would even make living in 1st world ones a bit more bearable.

If you want to help, learn all the arguments against capitalism (and for it so you can combat the common rebutals used in its support), and spread the word amongst as many schools and kids as you can. But do it properly so you don’t end up looking like a foolish hippie, like all recent attempters keep falling prey to.

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Silhouette
I am in complete harmony with you on this
Eventually Capitalism will fall off its own rotten pedestal
and probably kill most of us doing so
in the meantime
if we fight fire with fire
before all the dollars actually become totally devalued
we might dismantle it without harm to anyone
slim hope i know
but better than just waiting for the roof to cave in

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Both the Christian and Islamic branches of the House of
Aryan were engaged in the disgraceful trade in human fl esh. Islam began
its slavery operations on the East Coast of Africa four hundred years ago,
funneling human souls through the port of Zanzibar and selling them on
the auction blocks of the Middle East. Christianity operated from the West
Coast a hundred years later, shipping millions of slaves from the ports of
Ghana and Nigeria and selling them on the auction blocks of our New
World colonies. No one knows the exact number of lives that we snatched
from the Heart of Africa, or how many of them died of sickness and
broken hearts in the stinking holds of slave ships during the ocean crossings
; more than ten million. Their labor in the cane and cotton fi elds of the
New World and the gold and diamond mines of Africa as unpaid servants
in the houses of the mighty , helped to enrich the House of Aryan beyond
the dreams of Solomon.

Far worse than the slaves we took out of Africa, was what we did to the
hundreds of millions that remained behind, as we began to colonize and
dominate the indigenous peoples all over the World. Awed by the miracle
of our fi repower, and by that association - with the superiority of our God ;
the spiritual Heart of primitive peoples the world over was laid bare. Our
missionaries were sent in behind the guns to throttle the peoples Belief
in themselves, and suck away any spiritual resistance to our domination.
We did this with a sense of self-righteousness that is painful to recount in
hindsight.

The early mission stations were at the forefront of colonial expansion. It
was our ministers of religion who, without being challenged by anybody
in our House, vilifi ed the aboriginal spiritual practices of Africa , the Americas,
and Australasia, denouncing them as witchcraft and set to weeding
them out. We were certain beyond all doubt that we knew who God was
and who His chosen prophets were. Our missionaries spent their lives fervently
scrubbing Animism and Shamanism out of the 3rd World ’s dark soul
with holy water splashed from the baptismal font.

The missionaries had to confront naked breasts, polygamy, concubinage,
ancestral worship, totemic imagery and the “witchcraft” of the shamans
seen as barbaric, savage and uncultured, while they ignored the brutal
origins of Christianity. They responded self-righteously and labeled it all
as heathen sacrilege and Satanic worship. The Christianized half of our
House insisted that God was a white man. We showed the black children
of Africa our pictures of a white God; his white Mother, and white family.
We justifi ed our dominion by telling them of the curse that God placed on
the sons of Ham.

The Islamic half of our House never revealed the face of God, but they
insisted that His only prophet was an Arabian, that the Koran was the only
True Book of Allah, and that everything else was a lie. In the process of
applying this discriminatory dogma, we stripped away the human dignity
and ancestral rights from every child in the House of Negro.

We did that from the fi rst missionary moment centuries ago and have continued
to do so up to this present time. We have made each precious child
look upon its black skin with shame and disgust. We have made them
cringe from their own image in the mirror. Without any thought of even a
cursory investigation before making this unholy religious conversion, we
nullifi ed the two fundamental spiritual forces of Animism and Shamanism;
the very two forces that gave birth to mankind’s religious expression.
We acted thus, despite the fact that those two oral-based religious customs
had maintained an ethical balance of social order and spiritual abeyance
throughout Africa and elsewhere, since the dawn of human consciousness.
Thus with the best of intentions in the name of Christ and Mohammed,
we helped to pave the way to hell on Earth for hundreds of millions of
indigenous people. Behind our explorers and missionaries came invading
armies and colonies of settlers. For the next century and a half we began
to systematically plunder Africa, and strip Her of Her riches. We took Her
ivory and gold and diamonds. We made ourselves as rich as Solomon on
the stock markets of London and New York, while the House of Negro
labored in our mines.

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The only people who dont care about poverty are those who are not poor.

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But why is this? Why do they not care? Is it because they don’t know any better or because they just don’t care? It has been proven that if you grow up thinking something is normal and how it is supposed to be then it is, in your eyes. Then a guy with nice clothes and shiny shoes comes with food and money. What will they do? Stare in shock or rob him. Why? Because they are bad people? No, because they don’t know any better.

That 's what someone once said. But is it true? Is it true that evil doesn’t exist just because you don’t know about it? No. We are ignorant as humans. That is how it is, was, and will always be. You might say, no! Me, ignorant? The correct definition of ignorant is uninformed or unaware. We all have room to learn. That is life. And so we must make the best of the time that we have to try to rid ourselves of this burden, ignorance. It is what truly weighs people down. It is why the world is how it is. It is because ignorance’s counterpart is the thing called fear. I am sure we are all familiar with it. It is the only thing that binds us to the ground, that keeps us from going ahead and making this world a better place. Fear of failing, being laughed at, others with more power, etc. Fear is the cause of many things that then contribute to evil. Note for the future: When there is no reason to ever fear anything ever forevermore, you have not only done what seems impossible in the eyes of many, a thing “of the future.” Do people not realize that the future is now? They say " Someone else will take care of it," or “It’ll get done eventually,” or something else dumb along these lines. They have never have the courage to overcome their fears and to go forth and change something in the world. They never even try. They stick their heads down a hole, or in book, or in a game, or in the computer, or in the TV, or something else they can emerge themselves in to get away from life, do something else, etc. I am not saying it is bad to sit back and take a breath, take a break from life to calm down and do something else, but show a general apathy for life and everything that it consists of, (extreme)never caring about others, just yourself and (off of extreme) in your games and such things, as is in the case of this upcoming generation.
I, in my personal life, have a bird’s-eyeview of this. I go to a school, and apathy reigns. And in my state, they have a rule that a cretin must have thought up of. It is called the “NO Zero Policy.” It’s effect, kids have to do the same worksheet, etc. over and over until they get a decent grade. And what would a normal kid do in this situation? Trial and error. This also has an extremely visible effect in the teachers. (Sorry, forgot to mention, this happens in K-8 and maybe higher depending on the school.) Why have I rambled off on the subject of school from what I was talking about [Evil, fear, apathy, and what the world’s poverty truly is]? Because the world revolves around the children. If it wasn’t for the children, no one would even think about caring. They are the reason why the adult generation even try to keep going.
If you listen to great men who made great contributions to the world and great visionary, they say that they do what they do so that the next generation might a better life, a better world, a better something-or-the-other that they didn’t have or didn’t think they had. We care about our kids and families in general because they are something we can always hold onto even if we don’t always realize it(and sadly, in many people’s cases, almost never) almost missing the great treasure we held in our very hands yet got used to seeing so often that we took it for granted or didn’t even really recognize or realize we had until we had lost it. And we lose it, and it causes a void that can only be filled by something that you consider greater than you or something that distracts you to the point that your mind slowly begins to forget the pain and even if it doesn’t go away, it blunts so that it is just a mere push not a pain-strickening slice through the armour that you put around what you call yourself to try to preserve what little you have left of your true personality for fear that you may lose yourself in the darkness and for fear that you may lose the friendship you have with the people around you, never realizing what a dumb train of unthought emotion this is, never realizing that the truth is hidden not because you don’t search(unless you do, but that usually comes later) but because you don’t know how to look and you have fear(ahem) of what you might find when you search. So you become depressed and either come back from this lowdown that was probably caused by death, constant fear and dilike caused by people you don’t understand, ridicule, the finishing of a job with nothing ahead of you, and so on (the list is long), or you look for ways to get out, namely, suicide. Which causes fear in society, when the latter takes place, and that we are doing something wrong that can’t be helped or fixed ever. This causes more hopelessness and anger. This can many times take place violently. a.e. A government overthrow, a fall of a “system,” mobs, riots, protest, etc. And to think that this could have been forestalled and that these great people in history gave us, unconsiously, information not only on what it and what should be done, but how to fix it.
Why do they not include lessons on ‘why to care’ with people to explain to kids from a young age that life is a constant road that needs to be repaved often, because so many people travel on it, and that they are the construction workers that have to go and fix it and do it better and out of the best materials available for traffic to continue moving. Some people would get the job of the truck driver, another the planner, another the inventor, another the computer whiz, another who makes the pavement, another who pours it and smooths it over, and there are always open spots where you and me and everyone else would be able to fit in the spot created specifically for you by the Master Creator, the person who decided to build the road, and made the first car from the earth. It was originally made perfect, but the trials of the road and it’s unmarked detours and potholes and dustclouds made the car dirty and broken, in such a state that it was about to be abandoned. The owner was then struck by fear. What will the people around me think of me when they see my car? So, he decides to clean it(not being able to completely rid it of grime) and paint it(not being able to cover all of the rust and broken pieces). He is happier then. But the then the paint chips off and the broken insides show and it is unclean and once again undesirable. He is extremely depressed and repels the idea of help even though he is broke and nothing he can do will fix his car. He wants to die. But then he remembers the deal that his car manufacturer made with him and does with every person to whom he gives a car. He tells them that if they ever have any problems with their car just to give it completely to him and he will fix it like it was new. But pride keeps him away, oh, what a mistake. The manufacturer could have made it like new and fixed all of his problems and, sure, there was the chance that people wouldn’t like it. But would you rather have risked it breaking down on the road and leaving you there to die? Would pride and the fear of rejection, of somone you thought you could trust lying to you. You couldn’t take any more. You were scared. But you chose to go to the car-maker. And he made you like new. Sure, it’s true not everybody liked you afterwards, but you were new, happy, and it went well because you had someone you could trust and so, there was no reason for you to fear anymore. Does this mean that everything will go perfectly and you won’t ever have any problems anymore? No, of course not. But it will be better and you know that you will be able to reach your end destination, that any problems that might come your way can handled by you through the car-maker, because he will never fail. And you rest in peace in the fact that when you reach your destination, everything will be perfect, and better than you could ever have imagined. Also, you will get a car a million times better than the one you are using right now.
The fight is this: to get there. Everyone will pass through the down times in their life, and many will turn off the road and lose the fight to get there, the end, the destination of your life. Losing the fight to get there and so giving in to evil, not listening for or to the good, not perservering, but giving in when it gets hard in life, never truly stopping to fully consider and grasp your options fully. You have a job, not only to make sure the roads are good for you, your children, and everyone else on it, but also to drive the right way, never turning right or left, going on what is the narrow way(Notice:there is always more room to get off the road than to stay on and drive well.) Why? Because that is not only right thing to do, the purpose of life, and it is the Solution to the the World’s Poverty, but because of life itself. You are here for a reason. Don’t miss it. Don’t let it go by. And don’t ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever give up. If you do, you not only have let yourself down, but the whole world. That is the solution to the world’s poverty.

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~Alaxir Zoa :sunglasses:

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You are right, Zoa
human values are nurtured in the home
not in the classroom
with the advent of the world wide web
globalization is a reality
no room left for ignorance of another’s needs
every kid should have a net pal
from every race

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The more time one gives to being fair and knowlegeable of diversity, the less time one has for oneself and finding a strong grounding for specialisation and expertise.

Other than highly variable degrees of feeling widespread kinship sometimes preferring to look away from oneself and towards others, there is no compatibility within the above problem. If one finds more pleasure in looking inwards and in specialisation, are they ‘wrong’ for not looking outwards to spread their finite ability evenly and more shallowly over a much wider area? Ignorance of your self in favour of ignorance of others.

It’s true that kids who grow up close to other races are less prone to racism. But there is a reason why narrow mindedness has persisted thus far in humanity - do we just ‘chuck it out’, because the more open minded and pitying of us (narrow mindedly) don’t like the inequality that this causes? We would be doomed to a universal generalised lack of identity and selfish care towards our own lives, in favour of ‘saving’ others. This submission of the self would be agonising for some and a world without fear would be terrifying! But admittedly this weakening would bring mankind down a notch to become more harmonious in their huge numbers - the evolution of the ‘swarm’?

Morality assumes a universal unchanging right and wrong. Historically there has been nothing of the sort, with widespread diversity in morality - the moral people of each morality each time being sure they were right, and likewise wanting to change everyone to fit to their own image. Hypocritically selfish morality.

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There is a time for perfecting one’s private techniques
for self- masturbation
and a time for collective effort
so the question is
which time are you living in bub?

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From the way you phrase this, it seems as though you find “perfecting one’s private techniques” to be something quite indecent.

In favour of “collective effort”.

I find the latter comes as a natural consequence of the former - for me. I find putting any extra effort into the latter than what comes naturally from the former to be utterly abhorrent - in others as well as myself.

For this reason, I’m sure I would appear to you to be living in the ‘former time’. I just really don’t see the need to make the separation. I have faith in nature + understand that you simply fill out the other side of the equation to some greedy capitalist somewhere in the world. It’s only natural that you’ll set this difference up as purposeful, urgent and therefore ‘sided’.

Likewise, it’s only natural for me to see this all as below me because I see it so clearly and can’t bear to be on either ‘side’ because of this. There really is no point in trying to place me on either side, but I’m sure you will in your own mind anyway because I’m not going along with what you want to hear. Whatever: I’m not against people making purpose for themselves in their life.

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[quote=“Silhouette”]
I just really don’t see the need to make the separation. I have faith in nature + understand that you simply fill out the other side of the equation to some greedy capitalist somewhere in the world. It’s only natural that you’ll set this difference up as purposeful, urgent and therefore ‘sided’.{/quote]

“Nature will no longer do the work unaided.
Nature – if by that we mean blind an non-conscious forces –
has, marvelously, produced man and consciousness;
they must together carry on the tasks to new results
which she alone can never reach.” - Julian Huxley.

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Lol. The classic idealist divorce of mankind and consciousness from nature.

How can anything living not be nature, continuously? Our becoming to be born, as we are now, is just as much nature as we will become to be born in future - however things turn out, whatever steps are taken. Disaster and extinction is also included in this continuous becoming-to-be-born that derives from the word, ‘nature’. Death is a birth of another kind. If one species meets this, as countless others have done throughout history, so be it - this is nature and nothing we can do is going to divorce us from this nature. Even our trying to do differently is nature.

This is the seeming paradox that I refer to when I refuse to ‘side’ one way or another. Aiding or not, one is still inescapably nature. Nature will endure in some form or other, regardless. Even if it didn’t, this would be natural.

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I agree
we are Nature incarnate in human form
but the salient point Sir Julian is making is valid
She did not produce the big brain for no reason
not for six billion of us to run around pointlessly
we pool our talents and cultures as we have always done
and work together for our commonwealth
or we go our separate ways
and die alone
prematurely

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I agree…and after we let the next batch of pageant winners do away with poverty, we can get to work on world peace and brotherhood…by having children write essays.

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No, she really did.

She just holistically exists in such a way that people with brains can fabricate a point for themselves or not. It is just as natural, though, to focus on only part of the whole of nature in order to have your point point towards a certain purpose over other potential purposes - as it is to see the whole picture and refuse to favour any part of it over any other.

To focus only on part of nature at the expense of its context is to upset the balance of nature, and as such is hugely disrespectful towards its holistic health. This is what you propose, but it corrects the balance of others having done the same in a way that disrupts the balance in a different way, so creates a kind of healthy tension reliant on your enemy that you have made your enemy. Nature didn’t give this purpose to you like a present of ‘rightness’, you took it up through being part of nature and because you could.

At the same time, to refuse to take up a purpose in favour of any one part of nature is to deny it its healthy tension. In this knowledge, I have ceased to look away from myself and towards causes that rely on enemies. I look to myself and find an inconstant balance that plays between subjectively assuming a purpose and knowing that there is no objective purpose. This feels like health to me. I will never blindly follow one cause like you. Occasionally though, I might meander into such a role, such as my nature may or may not end up doing, and be purposeful in the knowledge that I do nature just as much wrong as I do it right.

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The is an old Xhosa maxim
People are people because of people

Everything you are
including the fact that you can read and write
the very thoughts you think
even the right to deny this Truth
is owed to the collective effort

If there is no profound sense of affection
for the lowest of the low
your humanity is lost
and you are nothing but a parasite

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Your interpretation of the maxim seems to be only partly accurate.
The fact that I can read, write and deny is owed to the collective effort.
This is because they are all formulations of communication.
The fact that I can think is NOT owed to the collective effort. I would have imagined sensory signals in my head whether they were given words for communication or not. Sounds don’t have to be known as words, and sights as objects etc., for one to think.

A profound sense of affection for the lowest of the low does NOT involve venerating them to the average. We do not honour parasites as humans because they perform their equally essential tasks best as mere parasites. To be truly respectful for the lowest of the low is to leave them as low.

To push them lower than they are, is just as much an atrocity as venerating them as higher than they are. The former is the atrocity that evokes your uniquely swollen malignant pity that you clearly value so incredibly. I see the injustice here too, but not through pity.

Your solution being the latter frankly fills me with dismay.