tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10825772.post3850650081570387904..comments2023-07-20T15:26:55.750+02:00Comments on The World According to Inez: And you thought you were having a bad day...Inez Templetonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13715090352137278728noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10825772.post-18300445187032224112007-02-02T13:56:00.000+01:002007-02-02T13:56:00.000+01:00Hi Inez, I saw the film some time ago in Athens (n...Hi Inez, I saw the film some time ago in Athens (not dubbed, thank God), and I think it's a really powerful statement. Needless to say, I haven't eaten "Viktoriabarsch", as Germans call it, ever since!<br /><br />Take care :-)<br />Jannis from HannoverAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10825772.post-20156068653136597492007-01-26T03:19:00.000+01:002007-01-26T03:19:00.000+01:00Welcome back Inez. xxx
Look forward to more activ...Welcome back Inez. xxx<br /><br />Look forward to more activity on your blog. <br />Darwin's Nightmare is a nearly perfectly structured narrative on our world today. Today of course is not very different from yesterday and so on. I believe you know my thoughts on some of the matters addressed in this film. I recommend this film without reservation on the grounds that it ought to wake some of us out of our complacency or naivitee about matters affecting Africa.(Is that too much of a burden to put on this film?)<br /><br />Some have argued that it is easy for folks on the hill to send other peoples kids to a faraway land to die for objectives whose benefits are murky or at best<br />dubious. So we are in the quagmire that is Iraq where life is cheap, whether that life is an Iraqi life or an American one. I apply the same logic to Darwin's Nightmare. Watch it just so that you know how ineffective some of the aid efforts we have been asked to support have actually been. How some aid efforts perpetuate the long standing state of affairs on the African continent. Just so you know how intractable some of the problems facing the continent are.<br />Just so we maybe stop throwing pity parties for those Africans and take them more seriously when they call for a change in the terms of global business (G8, WTO, WORLD BANK, etc) that has long favoured the West and their cronies on that continent. Believe me when I say Paul Wolfowitz didn't leave Washington go to the job at the World Bank to improve the lot of struggling Africans, if anything he is there to secure the status quo. If Iraq circa 2007 (his brainchild) is an indication of what he is capable of, then Africa certainly does not need his kind of help.<br /><br />TRADE NOT AID and let the real development begin. Before I get tagged an idealist, I will point out that nothing precludes the West continuing to enjoy some priviledges it does in Africa at the same time that development takes place. But, so long as some narrow selfish interests continue to dominate the landscape nothing will change. I think the question to ask oneself the next time the issue arises in discussion, is how much of the sustainance suckled from the breasts of Africa actually benefit the majority of people in the west. It is a minority priviledge. The pillage of Africa is often carried out in our names without "resulting" benefits to but a few. Does Iraq factor into this? Your fuel price at the pump didn't go any lower. If anything it went up. Did you get a job out it that you didn't have access to four years ago. <br />For whose benefit are these catastrophies being constructed? In whose name are they being perpetuated? <br /><br />If Nancy Reagan was naive enough to think Just say no was a answer to a national drug crisis, then I will join her and say the same to what is purportedly done in our names.<br /><br />For whomever might be interested I recommend a book titled "The Wonga Coup" Adam Roberts (2006).<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Henry??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com