Why do we always, and merely, focus on the things that concern ourselves? How many of you care about the people that die in Iraque, people from there? How many know the numbers?
Fact is, the media has a hand for disaster. And even more so, for that type of disaster noone's gulity for. Haiti! HELP, HELP, HELP! Don't bother that billions of people die of famine, wars caused in part by ourselves, heavy national conflicts, child labour in the 3rd world. Don't bother that some of the issues are very WELL traceable to the WESTERN imperium! Didn't we exploit the 3rd world for years? Colonisation? Didn't we actively hinder some countries to develop the way we did? Didn't we use the riches of their world to build our own strong army-led empires? And ... against all those telling us that we do not profit from colonisation anymore (duh, it's ages ago!), it definitely helped US becoming what WE are and leaving them outside of everything. Because, hey, come on (!), aren't we the BIG BOSSES on this planet? Go, go West! And take everything right down with you as you fall. We are ONLY HAPPY about Haiti! LOOK, disaster happened, NATURAL kind! We didn't do anything. Let's help! Let's put our cool actors and singers on the tv screen, showing how much they CARE about Haiti. Let them collect for us, with their pretty plastic surgery induced faces and bodies. And no, this doesn't in any way prompt their own celebrity, art thou kidding? This is purely SELFLESS! Of course it is, how could it be anything else? Sure, there are some exceptions. ... Wait! Wasn't this the other way 'round? Damn it, I must loose track of things. Yes, I guess they're right! Haiti, that wasn't our fault, that's where we can help (and pretend that we didn't cause tremendous amounts of suffering elsewhere and WITHIN our own pretty West itself), that's where we can shine as the beautiful white heroes! Ha ... guess, after all, it's a no-fault scenery ... eh state?
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