Kerry,
You call that a rant? You should seek higher goals.
A rant might get down to brass tacks about street life in the favelas of Rio. It might consider that paramilitaries regularly shoot street rats, aka street urchins like vermin in Rio.
There's a population problem there. The Roman Catholic culture creates a failure of population control, and thereby a huge underclass of undesirables and unwanteds.
Excessive breeding creates a miasma of social chaos, petty criminals and a drug culture that is a direct result of the increasingly common understanding among the youth of the world that life is not worth living.
Cf.: prb.org
See figure 1:
This problem is not going away. It is just beginning. We are entering a hellish period for the human race. There aren't nearly enough resources on this planet to satisfy the population that is coming on.
That's why some of us suspect that Sars isn't a natural development. It may be a way to shave the "youth curve" into some sort of a manageable configuration.
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Re: My response acknowledges that fact, and offered some solace to elmatador in that some unexpected rewards may be forthcoming from what he views as a spending error.
Nonsense. The Rio Museum construction is a direct result of the financial and cultural success at Bilbao.
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Re: elmatador's point was that he felt the large sum of money would be better spent on education, indicating that he had a problem with the spending priorities of Rio de Janero.
Nonsense. It's not his money. Bitching about private foundations spending money as they see fit is ridiculous.
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Re: Not everyone would see a world class museum as a high priority in a society that desperately needs monies for primary education of its young people.
Nonsense. Intelligent societies would see excessive young people as a problem to be eradicated not educated. That is to say, a sensible birth control program in Rio is long overdue. The Catholicism of this culture is now a destroyer of culture, not a nurturing superstition as in the past.
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Re: Both the argument for a museum and the argument for education are worthy causes.
Nonsense. One will generate great revenues for Rio and the other will be a bankrupting drain on the public coffers.
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Re: From your perspective, the museum is a high priority item
Nonsense. This is not what I said, nor did the Guggenheims. Priority is the entirely wrong metaphor here. What the Museum represents is an uplifting of an otherwise very dire and wary community, where they say the best thing on offer, aside from being rico and behind the gates of a special oligarchy community gate is to have an effective vigilante committee in your favela to fight off the drug mafias. What kind of a life is this?
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Re: I think that perhaps your standards in "The World According to Ray" (with all due apologies to Robin Williams) are too rigid,
Nonsense. You meant to say "The world according to Garp" by
John Irving. And I'm hardly rigid. I'm a certifiable Anarcho-Groucho-Marxist.
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Re: Besides that, the problem is a Brazilian problem (if it's a problem at all).
Nonsense. Some, like elmat, can be in deep denial that the destruction of the rain forest is a problem for the planet. Others of us understand that the web of life on this planet is fragile, and that it is being unwoven by uncaring and unthinking cabals of craven capitalists like the Bushista Junta. And that this planet is further being degraded and made unliveable by the exodus of excess human spawnings from the favelas of Rio and Sao Paulo into the back country of Amazonia. The degradation and destruction of the planet is readily apparent for all to see. But we all seem to prefer to live by the side of that antique river in Egypt, Denial.
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Re: We now return the thread to its regular programming...
Nonsense. What a degraded concept of civil discourse. |
