Playing in traffic
You know what I should be blogging? The mounting grief in Africa, in a feeble attempt to raise awareness and to respond to statements like this in the NY Times:
So it's time to rethink this continent. Africa itself has largely failed, and Western policies toward it have mostly failed as well.
… because current Western policies have mostly failed entirely because previous Western policies — the post colonial ones of drawing political boundaries to split tribes and group them with hereditary enemies, to empower thugs to keep the political boundaries intact,
have worked… with stunning efficiency. Just as Kurdistan was purposely fragmented into the Iraqi and Turkish Kurds "ethnic groups" that are the source of so much concern now. I should be writing about that. I
should.
But I haven't. I mean, I got AllAfrica.com over there in the news sources. I could just pop by and grab the latest like I do with the NY Times, ZDNet, Corante and a couple others. I could just give up a weblog or two… as you probably know that would render up huge blocks of time.
But I haven't. Like most Americans, I've been too busy worrying about the car heading toward me to warn the next guy about the truck screaming his way. So busy trying to make out what the conspirators whispering while glancing furtively at me are saying to pay attention to the screams from around the corner.
Understandable? I think so. Expected? Definitely.
Troubling?
To me?
Yeah.
I have a bad feeling Mr Kristof is right:
Our children and grandchildren may fairly ask, "So, what did you do during the African holocaust?"
And what will
I say?
"I was blogging."
posted by Prometheus 6 at 5/27/2003 11:44:16 AM |
