Monday, March 1, 2010

Words Are Dangerous Things

Feb 2040
Port au Prince- Haiti

In a surprising turn of events, do-gooders all over the world had their sensibilities shaken as they came to learn that much of the aid that was collected for Haiti after the earthquake of 2010 was of little use, for  twenty  years after that devastating earthquake, Haitians still live in conditions of poverty and disease that are essentially the same as that in which their nation existed beforehand.

Such turn of events has been used by the World Nations League as poof of the niggardliness of the Western Nations and Prime Overlord Amid Kerchi chided the "West" that although they had risen themselves up from poverty and strife by having a  national pride of self responsibility,  and were now after years of national work and toil enjoying the fruits of their labors, that they should "give back" to those that are not interested in the least in helping themselves and instead demand to live off the labors of others. 

The United North American League, responded to these allegations of neglect that prior to the quake, saying that they had spent over 3 billion in aid to the Haitian nation and that such expenditure over  17 years of "giving" was of absolutely no use, citing the facts that employment and poverty at the commencement of their giving was at a lower level compared to in the subsequent years.

As example of how this all came to be, President Jacobssen of the United North American League, played at the  World Nations League general assembly a tape of a 2040 interview with Jamil JabJube a citizen of Haiti.

When asked about the impact of foreign aid to his country, Jamil JabJube said that after 1960's when the aid started pouring in from the western nations that had been made guilt ridden from their misunderstanding and conflating of the concepts of  responsibility and poverty, that people like him had seen that there was no need to work and  provide for their families, as the lower cost option was to be shiftless and wait for aid to come from a West that can always be black-bagged into a sense of guilt. Indeed, he was proud to live in a nation that has such poverty, as it helped in achieving his aim of getting something for as little expenditure of energy as possible.

He cited that he has 13 kids - all qualifying under the Western Nations Guilt Plan for direct payments and medical attention. He further stated that while in generations previous to his, married and unmarried couples practiced Haikde and Jayal, forms of sexual self or mutual stimulation and gratification without intercourse that had been developed over centuries of their society's evolution as a means to relieve sexual tension without the risk of pregnancy and consequent increase in population that would, if not practiced, soon strip the tiny nation of all its sustainable resources, there was now no need for such practices for no matter how bad it gets, as the Western guilt can always be counted on.

He went on to say that in the last 50 years the so called Western Aid has completely destroyed their one means of rising out of poverty (working/doing it themselves) , reiterating that it is because the aid has made it so that there is no need of practicing Jayal and Haikde which results in a swarms of povety stricken children and indeed has created a nation standing at every street-corner of the world demanding "need" payment to their outstretched palms.

He further heaped contempt and disdain on one particular class of do-gooders  - those that come over for 2 months every year and build a couple of homes for those that are considered "deserving" and after doing so, then jet  back to their lives of luxury and leave a couple of Haitian families in a "new home", which does nothing more than cause envy and jealousy among the neighbors.

He said that when everyone is poor, nobody is poor and such "charity" upsets the delicate balance of life that rests of personal responsibility. Citing the philosophical truism that wealth created by ones own initiative is hard enough to protect from attack by those "in need", the said that it is even harder to protect when its possession has merely been handed over. As example, he said that a man who builds his own house while the others sit and watch is soon beset by the jealousy of his neighbors, those same neighbors are even more jealous when he got that house without having to do any work other than being  judged to be "in need" and "deserving".

Asked why the Western League persists in sending "aid" he said that it is because those nations have forgotten  that need does not create a "deservement" and have conflated the word and concept of "deserve" with the concept of "a claim" and the concept of "need", citing the very definition of the word as shown above as proof. He said that the beauty of the English and French Languages of old were that they had a plethora of words intended to convey subtle but important distinctions on meaning, and that the lazy American and Western minds, due to a dumbing down from  the "no child left behind" education system which acts so that "no child gets ahead, has started conflating ideas and concepts that should not be so associated.

He ended his interview by reminding that "lack of" something should not be conflated with "need" for something, and that neither should be conflated with "claim" for something , warning that a society that does not understand the boundaries and fences erected make these terms good neighbors, will create a nation of citizens who try and stake a claim based simply on their "need".

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