My sense is that the Third World do-gooderism has really declined in recent years, being replaced by the demand to allow in infinite migrants.
There are more financial incentives to bring in cheap labour, they vote for the left and it creates plenty of jobs for left wingers that don’t involve international travel. Going to Africa to hand out gibs probably seemed exciting to young boomers, but doesn’t appeal as much in an aging and feminized society.
I was thinking about this when I was far enough along in revision that I didn't want to make any big changes, that maybe we are past peak. At the same time, I don't see many TV commercials anymore. I know that all the talk of Trump reducing aid to Africa was used to conceal the fact that basically every European country did to and by large amounts.
In general, I think to some extent in this I made the mistake of thinking more about how things were in my formative years than how they are now, but 2020 kind of moved us to the next phase. I probably could have explained that better, but the relentless march of global do-gooding nevertheless continues.
I think the leftist idea that only black people can speak for black people, Latinos for Latinos, etc, has also cut down on the appetite for international charity. Churches are out of date on these fashions.
Around a decade ago we had a pro- Syrian refugee craze cooked up by the media to make PM Harper look cold and help Trudeau get elected. Our local Catholic diocese had an initiative that every parish should sponsor a refugee family. I know of at least one parish that was so fed up with the arrogance and ingratitude their Muslim guests that the parishioners were turned off. The initiative has not been repeated.
and of course Ukraine replaced all of that which are white people but which is also a shithole. War refugees are more understandable, the current wave from Africa especially is just population growth and wanting economic opportunities.
Birth rates have actually fallen shocking amounts in South Asia but they're still really overpopulated and once the birth level gets down like that it takes a human lifespan for any actual decline in population.
Americans are the least generous, with the most performative “charitable giving” on the planet. Foundations are tax deductible or they wouldn’t exist. People demand an IRS declaration for their used underwear. We glide past the poor and sicc armed agents on them. Citizens are appalled at nations not sufficiently grovelingly grateful for our destabilization, assassinations, and coups that come with Trojan Horse bags of moldy second-rate soybeans.
We should “become ashamed of Western heritage,” built on corruption and plunder at the point of violence, and we know in our souls are shelves are stocked on the backs of those we’ve robbed, and “are thus on the path to civilizational suicide.”
The rest of the world just wants us to get the fuck out of the way and they’ll do for themselves, as they’ve been doing beautifully for CENTURIES, thank you very much, before America was “discovered.”
They great majority of America's wealth in fact comes from our own resources and productivity, but the harms to everyone of this ridiculousb"charity" system are certainly real and its plenty clear why it would make people hate us.
How to Hide an Empire is a good book. Further, think of all the intellectual innovation that’s been crushed by monopolization and outright theft. And, to anyone who travels, the US is a collapsing empire, with none of the community virtues of a “3rd world nation,” so the burden is on intrepid individuals to weather alone in a Wild West minus the survival skills.
My sense is that the Third World do-gooderism has really declined in recent years, being replaced by the demand to allow in infinite migrants.
There are more financial incentives to bring in cheap labour, they vote for the left and it creates plenty of jobs for left wingers that don’t involve international travel. Going to Africa to hand out gibs probably seemed exciting to young boomers, but doesn’t appeal as much in an aging and feminized society.
I was thinking about this when I was far enough along in revision that I didn't want to make any big changes, that maybe we are past peak. At the same time, I don't see many TV commercials anymore. I know that all the talk of Trump reducing aid to Africa was used to conceal the fact that basically every European country did to and by large amounts.
In general, I think to some extent in this I made the mistake of thinking more about how things were in my formative years than how they are now, but 2020 kind of moved us to the next phase. I probably could have explained that better, but the relentless march of global do-gooding nevertheless continues.
Good stuff, thanks for sharing.
I think the leftist idea that only black people can speak for black people, Latinos for Latinos, etc, has also cut down on the appetite for international charity. Churches are out of date on these fashions.
Around a decade ago we had a pro- Syrian refugee craze cooked up by the media to make PM Harper look cold and help Trudeau get elected. Our local Catholic diocese had an initiative that every parish should sponsor a refugee family. I know of at least one parish that was so fed up with the arrogance and ingratitude their Muslim guests that the parishioners were turned off. The initiative has not been repeated.
and of course Ukraine replaced all of that which are white people but which is also a shithole. War refugees are more understandable, the current wave from Africa especially is just population growth and wanting economic opportunities.
Birth rates have actually fallen shocking amounts in South Asia but they're still really overpopulated and once the birth level gets down like that it takes a human lifespan for any actual decline in population.
Americans are the least generous, with the most performative “charitable giving” on the planet. Foundations are tax deductible or they wouldn’t exist. People demand an IRS declaration for their used underwear. We glide past the poor and sicc armed agents on them. Citizens are appalled at nations not sufficiently grovelingly grateful for our destabilization, assassinations, and coups that come with Trojan Horse bags of moldy second-rate soybeans.
We should “become ashamed of Western heritage,” built on corruption and plunder at the point of violence, and we know in our souls are shelves are stocked on the backs of those we’ve robbed, and “are thus on the path to civilizational suicide.”
The rest of the world just wants us to get the fuck out of the way and they’ll do for themselves, as they’ve been doing beautifully for CENTURIES, thank you very much, before America was “discovered.”
James Brown said it best, ‘I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nuthin’: https://youtu.be/-QPVmQPYLDc?si=NhAcmP1kZxipsiFP
They great majority of America's wealth in fact comes from our own resources and productivity, but the harms to everyone of this ridiculousb"charity" system are certainly real and its plenty clear why it would make people hate us.
Whatever history books you’re reading are missing the USA imperialism chapters.
I could suggest a few episodes of American Exception on Patreon for a starter primer on how all this works.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/116523918
How to Hide an Empire is a good book. Further, think of all the intellectual innovation that’s been crushed by monopolization and outright theft. And, to anyone who travels, the US is a collapsing empire, with none of the community virtues of a “3rd world nation,” so the burden is on intrepid individuals to weather alone in a Wild West minus the survival skills.