At first I thought, 'interesting but don't you think you've rolled out a cannon to shoot a mouse?'
And there's a huge amount of noise being blasted contra the US right now - see the PEW Poll a few posts back.
And no doubt a great deal of it comes from disappointed marxists and socialists who are still in some sort of denial of the utopian nature of their ideology. Denial always makes for lots of noise.
And they never have forgiven the Western worker for taking the money and running straight to Levittown, buying vulgar automobiles, swimming pools and barbecues for the backyard, instead of living in the Bauhaus paradises the fascist and socialist planners had in mind for them. [Tom Wolfe?]
So 3rd World misery is a concern to attach the socialists' do good concern. But I never thought to attach the workers' revolt to the 3rd world folk who are far more concerned with where tomorrow's meal is coming from. Harris really is digging into the marxist apocrypha.
Third world misery is worsened by the North's activities but that has mostly to do with denying access of 3rd World economies to North's developed economies. An absurd and wicked situation. But it's not a matter of exploitation - but of callousness and ignorance. The North actually denies itself cheap goods from the 3rd world and at great expense to itself.
A 3rd world product the North doesn't deny itself is oil. So the mess in ME is because of US's appetite for oil, I suppose? [See Pew poll] But the US, like every one else, pays world price for ME oil, pays world price for coffee, heroin, etc. If the US were less powerful and prosperous that price would be less and presumably the poor folk would receive even less of the considerable revenue than they do now....
What we hear is the sound of denial dressed up in utopian socialist do gooder vocabulary. Denial of complicity in exacerbating 3rd world misery, and in the case of the islamofascists, denial of their inadequacy in face of modernity.
Denial makes for strange music - a chorus shouted by islamofascists as they murder infidels all around the world accompanied by a guilty descant of 'it's all right, really, we understand - it's all the Americans'fault, shoot them or the jews'.
It's easy to make the noise because the US is unlikely ever to harm most of the folk who are shouting. |
