| Contra-Memes & Things to Learn from Haiti's Turmoils | 5 comments |
 24 Jan 2010 @ 15:22, by Max SandorRest-in-Peace, Fabienne Cherisma, whether you 'stole' the printed painting from a rightful owner, or whether you saved a piece of beauty from its destruction in the rubble. Whether deliberate shooting (something usually called murder but the mass media prefers some other wordings) or whether it was a tragic accident. Maybe nobody will ever know the exact truth of it. But we should not only support the people of Haiti materially but also look at the damage inflicted by those who brag now of coming to 'rescue'. The 'rescue' of the World Bank is clear: make a loan with concise political conditons attached to it and get paid back handsomly later with fat interest and interest on interest. Behind the scenes, more from a global viewpoint, literally, another question looms: Why are the United States trying to destroy the well-being and happiness of other countries? And, more general, whence came, the contra-meme of 'not permitting others to be happy'? 'Technically' we could 'explain' this contra-meme as a result of what we call the 'decay scale' but this seems to put the cart before the horse. It assigns words to circumstances and pretends thus to 'explain' them, very much like Dawkins' Extended Phenotypes, in the end running around in circles and arriving at the 'conclusion' that humans would be animals. In this line of reasoning, was it the color within the painting that caused the girl to run off with the printing and should be blame the phenotype of the color pink for the tragic event? In any case, may the events in Haiti prompt many to reflect another time about what really provides the true worth of a human existence. |