mapa wrote:
>>Taran Rampersad dijo:
>>>>
>>>>http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=4938
>>>>
>>>The problem with most conspiracy theories is that they attribute
>>>intelligence and power to something in an exaggerated sense.
>
>Recuerdo que alguna vez H. Kissinger dijo "hasta los paranoicos tienen
>enemigos". Yo lo he confirmado y Andrés Manuel López Obrador, también.
>Miguel Angel Pérez Alvarez
Yes, every now and then conspiracy theories are true. However, stupidity
is more likely than the level of intelligence required to run a conspiracy.
If you can look at the same information and come to the conclusion that
large groups of people are doing stupid things, then you cannot rule out
stupidity... Elevating the status of such groups makes them appear more
intelligent than they really are.
That the example given is decades old should say something.
When it comes to the developing world, we have to take a walk in their
shoes. I've worked for corporations in the U.S. - there's not so much a
plan for colonizing the world as there is increasing the market and making
shareholders happy. These themselves are not bad things; we encourage it in
our own countries (but apparently not our region). They are what they are,
and making them something that they are not can cause complications that
make the problem itself more difficult.
The developing world does not want to lose it's status - and in their
shoes, we may see things the same way. In understanding how they see
things, we understand the problem better and are better prepared for
solutions. If we sensationalize the problem, we scare the same people we
are trying to help - and make them *reactive* instead of *active*. If we
are *reactive*, then we limit ourselves to reacting to what the developing
world does.
If we are *active*, we are not so limited.
Taran Rampersad
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