Friday, December 17, 2004

 

My macro-disillusionment is nearly complete. Blue pith helmets are shooting kids in the poorest city in the Western Hemisphere.


Half the width of a hair.

And populist rule in South Africa just keeps getting better and better. Hey, buddy would you like to buy a flamethrower for your car?

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The city is Cape Haiti, and blue helmets are the UN. The good guys. Pshh, everyone's dirty and populist organizations don't work.

I know, you're nice, and your group gets alot done.

I bet your group doesn't deal with direct violence. And populist groups that do are hoping to play on some group's desire to feel good about themselves, ie we can see a disparate reaction to Indian individualism from China (free Tibet, they're slaughtering monks) and the UK (the East Indian Tea Company doesn't run India anymore, does it?).

Or lots of money. Does your successful populist organization deal with large sums of money? What if a million dollar opportunity arose? Would your group fall apart or immediately transform into something a bit less palatable?

Please. Tell me I'm wrong.

Rhetoricdog says, "Rime a rancer."

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