I always laugh when I see Christians who wear diamond jewelry. I
wonder if they are aware that they are going to hell, since they are
opulently displaying wealth which has come at the cost of absolute
economic stagnation for an entire continent and countless bloody wars
in order to control diamond mines so that a foreign company can
continue to maintain artificially high prices. I know, the propaganda
is pretty good - diamonds mean love, they mean passion, they mean
purity, and all that jazz. You probably had good intentions when you
bought or are wearing those diamonds, though you know what they say
about good intentions - the road to hell is paved with 'em.
Fear not however. Anglo-American exceptionalists have come up with
some great solutions for your sins. First, you could go a day without
shoes. Never mind that perfunctory shoes could be fashioned out of a
banana leaf and some string if the need was truly there. A far better
way to help would be to ship over a copy of The Wealth of Nations for
every citizen in that country so they can adopt an economic system
that works.
Or, you can lobby your government to send foreign aid. Forget that all
the aid in the world under the Clinton Administration didn't mean dick
for Haiti because they did not possess the economic infrastructure to
deal with a major disaster. They did not even possess free will
whatsoever - a man elected with 92% of the vote was forcibly placed
into exile by the United States and disallowed re-entry to his
country. Yes, this was within the last decade. But who needs democracy
when Idol Gives Back? We're essentially bribing these people to let us
plunder them. In case you miss the analogy, we've made Haiti our
prostitute.
My favorite is this Kony 2012 jazz. Leave it to you white people to
claim that the solution to all of Africa's problems is to assassinate
a black man. That is seriously hilarious, no joke. Remember when they
asked you if you would go back and kill Hitler, and some of you said
no because someone would take his place? What happens if you kill this
guy? The infrastructure which created him will still remain. Why don't
we have child soldiers in America? It's because it's not profitable.
Why is it profitable in Africa? Because an evil, corrupt corporation,
De Beers, funded by well-meaning hell-bound idiots, like yourself,
pays these warlords to maintain order by any means necessary.
But wait! The Kimberley Process! No conflict diamonds! Hahaha, that's
like saying the War on Drugs prevents drug importation in the least.
If there's profit to be made, there's trafficking to be done. Those
blood diamonds are in the general supply, there's no way to stop it
because nobody cares enough.
I like how De Beers has a mining ship called Peace in Africa. If I
were a different person I would blow that bitch up. That is some Death
and Destruction in Africa because as a civilization they are
encouraged at every turn by transnational corporations, by the IMF and
World Bank, and by our humanitarian aid to forgo advancing their
industrial potential in order to maintain a mercantilism posture and
export their natural resources to a foreign power so they can be
processed and sold by that power.
Honestly is this really hard to see? Why is Africa such a shithole
compared to Europe and other industrialized nations? I mean either
it's racism, in that you think blacks can't get their shit together,
or maybe AIDS, although life expectancy with full on AIDS is
comparable to what even the most advanced nations had a couple hundred
years ago, or maybe it's because we insist on fucking them over at
every turn, with a smile on our faces because the diamond refracts
light, and that's oh so pretty.
I could maybe, possibly, barely, but not really, see God forgiving you
if that diamond jewelry had any function whatsoever, but it is simply
a status symbol, for you to be as Haman (Book of Esther, look it up)
and have people defer to you due to propping yourself up on a flimsy
foundation based on false pride and wonton hubris.
I hear a lot of squawking about perceived historical injustices - as a
person of primarily Irish descent, I could jump on that bandwagon -
but how about you use the experience of your people's exploitation as
motivation to prevent continued recurrence of exploitation of others?
Not buying diamonds is not a solution, but it just might save you from
hell. Oh and here's a nice quote...
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise
they'll kill you."
I see nothing funny in my post. Come at me, bro.
