tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post1549244078796583520..comments2023-10-10T05:17:55.737-07:00Comments on Crushed By Ingsoc: Time to accept our share of responsibility.Crushedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479751225625007588noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-83088602950872831222007-03-15T01:19:00.000-07:002007-03-15T01:19:00.000-07:00This is an interesting post. How do you suggest w...This is an interesting post. How do you suggest we <i>"accept our share of responsibility"</i>?<br><br>You say, <i>"At least, let's have some integrity and go hold out our hands to the peoples we forced to become our brothers over a century ago and show them we mean this time."</i><br><br>The problem is, we don't mean it! We may have meant it then... (or our ancestors - like my grandparents who spent 10 years as missionaries in Sudan - and had a sincerity and purity of heart I can barely comprehend). They meant 'it'.<br><br>But our society lacks the concensus Christian standard it once had. It may have been flawed with human naievity and many darker weaknesses, but there was a foundation which is now gone.<br><br>Maybe the USA (perhaps the world's last Christian country - and the most wealthy and powerful) has the moral fibre to act as a principled nation.<br><br>The humanist liberal European ethic is too reliant on self-loathing as a substitute for dignity and confident self-adequacy. Europe has insufficient moral strength to act in the service of others. So we send money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-66542594818945921462007-03-15T06:05:00.000-07:002007-03-15T06:05:00.000-07:00One way we won't solve it is by going to a free co...One way we won't solve it is by going to a free concert in London for a day and pretending like we are actually doing something to help.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-85536238562285728002007-03-15T11:22:00.000-07:002007-03-15T11:22:00.000-07:00Onyx Stone- we send money in the general direction...Onyx Stone- we send money in the general direction of Africa, to ease our consciences, as David ppoints out. But just as the Dole doesn't solve unemployent, Live Aid doesn't help the villagers of Darfur who are raped and pillaged by one side or the other in a daily basis.<br>You're right, we don't mean it, because we are lulled into believing that little bit of aid helps, when we need to start thinking outside the box to really generate African solutions to African problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-75826742835812293602007-03-16T21:27:00.000-07:002007-03-16T21:27:00.000-07:00Africa is the whole worlds shame.Let them all migr...Africa is the whole worlds shame.<br>Let them all migrate to England and then see how quickly solutions will be found to help them be self reliant and have a stable economy in their own country!<br>Loved your post btwAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-87404794180667207762007-03-18T12:01:00.000-07:002007-03-18T12:01:00.000-07:00Morgan Tsvangirai is one of the world's greatest m...Morgan Tsvangirai is one of the world's greatest men right now: if and when he becomes president of a reformed Zimbabwe he'll deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com