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Africa: Turn Strengths into Strengths
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Ilya Shambat
Jun 6, 2012, 3:12:24 AM6/6/12
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Africa has a long-running pattern of having things that ordinarily
would be strengths turning into weaknesses.
Having large amounts of natural resources should normally lead to
prosperity; but instead in much of Africa the process of getting to
these resources keeps resulting in murder or enslavement of locals,
and the money gained from the use of these resources goes to fuel
tyranny and corruption.
Being beautiful and sexually attractive is normally a strength; but
for African women their beauty and sex appeal has instead made them a
target for rapists. The women who remain beautiful after they've
married become a magnet for male sexual attention; and given how
African people treat extra-marital sex, many of these women wind up
dead. On a related issue, for a man, having a large sexual organ
usually is a benefit; but in the Congo conflict it has resulted in men
giving vaginal fistulas to the women that they have raped.
Being strong, athletic and brave is also normally a strength. But in
Africa, it has resulted in people waging all sorts of pointless,
destructive and parasitical wars where the strong and brave men kill
each other and everyone else around them while doing nothing that
benefits their countries, their people or their race.
How does this happen? How are strengths of African people being
consistently turned into weaknesses? Perhaps this began during
colonialism, when the more the person had going for him or her the
more the person was attractive as a slave. However it's been centuries
since then, and African people should be able to move away from such
habits of thought and conduct.
Africa has a lot going for it. It has vast natural resources, strong
men and beautiful women; and Africa needs to make its strengths
strengths and to stop letting them turn into weaknesses. Intelligence
must be applied toward achieving that outcome with regard to all of
the above. Only when African people accomplish this will Africa become
truly free, and only when African people accomplish this will Africa
rise to the level appropriate to its potential. How will they do that?
Well that's up to the African people themselves to decide.
would be strengths turning into weaknesses.
Having large amounts of natural resources should normally lead to
prosperity; but instead in much of Africa the process of getting to
these resources keeps resulting in murder or enslavement of locals,
and the money gained from the use of these resources goes to fuel
tyranny and corruption.
Being beautiful and sexually attractive is normally a strength; but
for African women their beauty and sex appeal has instead made them a
target for rapists. The women who remain beautiful after they've
married become a magnet for male sexual attention; and given how
African people treat extra-marital sex, many of these women wind up
dead. On a related issue, for a man, having a large sexual organ
usually is a benefit; but in the Congo conflict it has resulted in men
giving vaginal fistulas to the women that they have raped.
Being strong, athletic and brave is also normally a strength. But in
Africa, it has resulted in people waging all sorts of pointless,
destructive and parasitical wars where the strong and brave men kill
each other and everyone else around them while doing nothing that
benefits their countries, their people or their race.
How does this happen? How are strengths of African people being
consistently turned into weaknesses? Perhaps this began during
colonialism, when the more the person had going for him or her the
more the person was attractive as a slave. However it's been centuries
since then, and African people should be able to move away from such
habits of thought and conduct.
Africa has a lot going for it. It has vast natural resources, strong
men and beautiful women; and Africa needs to make its strengths
strengths and to stop letting them turn into weaknesses. Intelligence
must be applied toward achieving that outcome with regard to all of
the above. Only when African people accomplish this will Africa become
truly free, and only when African people accomplish this will Africa
rise to the level appropriate to its potential. How will they do that?
Well that's up to the African people themselves to decide.
Steve Hayes
Jun 6, 2012, 5:03:05 AM6/6/12
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 00:12:24 -0700 (PDT), Ilya Shambat <ibsh...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Africa has a lot going for it. It has vast natural resources, strong
>men and beautiful women; and Africa needs to make its strengths
>strengths and to stop letting them turn into weaknesses. Intelligence
>must be applied toward achieving that outcome with regard to all of
>the above. Only when African people accomplish this will Africa become
>truly free, and only when African people accomplish this will Africa
>rise to the level appropriate to its potential. How will they do that?
>Well that's up to the African people themselves to decide.
And Africa has a communitarian outlook, or used to have, before it got
corrupted by Western greed abnd individualism.
It was called "ubuntu".
--
Steve Hayes
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wrote:
>Africa has a lot going for it. It has vast natural resources, strong
>men and beautiful women; and Africa needs to make its strengths
>strengths and to stop letting them turn into weaknesses. Intelligence
>must be applied toward achieving that outcome with regard to all of
>the above. Only when African people accomplish this will Africa become
>truly free, and only when African people accomplish this will Africa
>rise to the level appropriate to its potential. How will they do that?
>Well that's up to the African people themselves to decide.
corrupted by Western greed abnd individualism.
It was called "ubuntu".
--
Steve Hayes
Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/LITMAIN.HTM
http://www.goodreads.com/hayesstw
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/Methodius
Ilya Shambat
Jun 6, 2012, 5:18:42 AM6/6/12
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On Jun 6, 7:03 pm, Steve Hayes <hayes...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 00:12:24 -0700 (PDT), Ilya Shambat <ibsham...@gmail.com>
individualism in a corrupt manner. Whereas the people who don't see
individualism as being corrupt will practice individualism in a more
beneficial manner.
When something is denied, it manifests sideways. Thus, under the
Soviet Union, which prohibited self-interest, self-interest manifested
as corruption. Whereas in 1980s America, that prohibited collective
interest, collective interest manifested as rigid groupthink that
controlled how people thought and behaved and did not allow them their
own ideas even within the privacy of their minds.
People, existing as themselves, as part of their species and as part
of life, will naturally have the orientation toward all of the
preceding. And all of the above can take place in a viable way.
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 00:12:24 -0700 (PDT), Ilya Shambat <ibsham...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Africa has a lot going for it. It has vast natural resources, strong
> >men and beautiful women; and Africa needs to make its strengths
> >strengths and to stop letting them turn into weaknesses. Intelligence
> >must be applied toward achieving that outcome with regard to all of
> >the above. Only when African people accomplish this will Africa become
> >truly free, and only when African people accomplish this will Africa
> >rise to the level appropriate to its potential. How will they do that?
> >Well that's up to the African people themselves to decide.
>
> And Africa has a communitarian outlook, or used to have, before it got
> corrupted by Western greed abnd individualism.
The people who see individualism as being corrupt will practice
>
> >Africa has a lot going for it. It has vast natural resources, strong
> >men and beautiful women; and Africa needs to make its strengths
> >strengths and to stop letting them turn into weaknesses. Intelligence
> >must be applied toward achieving that outcome with regard to all of
> >the above. Only when African people accomplish this will Africa become
> >truly free, and only when African people accomplish this will Africa
> >rise to the level appropriate to its potential. How will they do that?
> >Well that's up to the African people themselves to decide.
>
> And Africa has a communitarian outlook, or used to have, before it got
> corrupted by Western greed abnd individualism.
individualism in a corrupt manner. Whereas the people who don't see
individualism as being corrupt will practice individualism in a more
beneficial manner.
When something is denied, it manifests sideways. Thus, under the
Soviet Union, which prohibited self-interest, self-interest manifested
as corruption. Whereas in 1980s America, that prohibited collective
interest, collective interest manifested as rigid groupthink that
controlled how people thought and behaved and did not allow them their
own ideas even within the privacy of their minds.
People, existing as themselves, as part of their species and as part
of life, will naturally have the orientation toward all of the
preceding. And all of the above can take place in a viable way.
Ilya Shambat
Jun 6, 2012, 5:36:44 AM6/6/12
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On Jun 6, 7:03 pm, Steve Hayes <hayes...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 00:12:24 -0700 (PDT), Ilya Shambat <ibsham...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Africa has a lot going for it. It has vast natural resources, strong
> >men and beautiful women; and Africa needs to make its strengths
> >strengths and to stop letting them turn into weaknesses. Intelligence
> >must be applied toward achieving that outcome with regard to all of
> >the above. Only when African people accomplish this will Africa become
> >truly free, and only when African people accomplish this will Africa
> >rise to the level appropriate to its potential. How will they do that?
> >Well that's up to the African people themselves to decide.
>
> And Africa has a communitarian outlook, or used to have, before it got
> corrupted by Western greed abnd individualism.
The people who see individualism as corrupt will practice
>
> >Africa has a lot going for it. It has vast natural resources, strong
> >men and beautiful women; and Africa needs to make its strengths
> >strengths and to stop letting them turn into weaknesses. Intelligence
> >must be applied toward achieving that outcome with regard to all of
> >the above. Only when African people accomplish this will Africa become
> >truly free, and only when African people accomplish this will Africa
> >rise to the level appropriate to its potential. How will they do that?
> >Well that's up to the African people themselves to decide.
>
> And Africa has a communitarian outlook, or used to have, before it got
> corrupted by Western greed abnd individualism.
individualism in a corrupt manner. The people who don't see
individualism as corrupt will practice individualism in a better way.
When something is denied, it manifests sideways. The Soviet Union
denied self-interest, so self-interest manifested as corruption. 1980s
America denied collective interest, so collective interest manifested
as mental totalitarianism that controlled every aspect of people's
thinking and conduct and did not allow any difference between one
person and another.
Individualism can be of benefit to Africa if it is done right.
tooly
Jun 6, 2012, 6:15:59 AM6/6/12
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to see it. They do it to horses too...called blinders...meant to keep
them on the straight and narrow as a beast of burden. Human blinders
are more complex though...made out of intangible flag words and
institutionalized programming and stuff that allows one to 'see only a
certain way'...and 'not the truth'. Yep, that elephant is standing
right before your nose and you don't even see it. It's amazing
really. The Amazing Kreskin couldn't trick the mind any better.
Ilya Shambat
Jun 6, 2012, 6:42:54 AM6/6/12
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Zerkon
Jun 6, 2012, 9:03:26 AM6/6/12
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In article <b14c77c0-b9b5-4d4e-be65-8cac15af2a48
@t2g2000pbl.googlegroups.com>, ibsh...@gmail.com says...
"Having large amounts of natural resources has lead to..."
deal with that first before you lecture to all Africans.
@t2g2000pbl.googlegroups.com>, ibsh...@gmail.com says...
> Having large amounts of natural resources should normally lead to
>
foreign interferences. so...
>
"Having large amounts of natural resources has lead to..."
deal with that first before you lecture to all Africans.
Michael Gordge
Jun 6, 2012, 4:22:24 PM6/6/12
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On Jun 6, 4:12 pm, Ilya Shambat <ibsham...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Being strong, athletic and brave is also normally a strength. But in
> Africa, it has resulted in people waging all sorts of pointless,
> destructive and parasitical wars where the strong and brave men kill
> each other and everyone else around them while doing nothing that
> benefits their countries, their people or their race.
>
> How does this happen?
Clearly the Africa you are speaking of are all embracing YOUR idea of
> Being strong, athletic and brave is also normally a strength. But in
> Africa, it has resulted in people waging all sorts of pointless,
> destructive and parasitical wars where the strong and brave men kill
> each other and everyone else around them while doing nothing that
> benefits their countries, their people or their race.
>
> How does this happen?
altruism, ruling out
any ability for any human individual to live for their own sake.
MG
Michael Gordge
Jun 6, 2012, 5:01:41 PM6/6/12
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MG
Ilya Shambat
Jun 6, 2012, 10:13:57 PM6/6/12
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I do not, nor did I ever, rule out the ability of an individual to
live for their sake.
I am writing about how in Africa, things that normally would be
beneficial end up being malignant. If something occurs at a rate
greater than chance, then there are going to be root causes for it.
Therefore it becomes necessary to find these root causes and correct
them.
Ilya Shambat
Jun 6, 2012, 10:15:43 PM6/6/12
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I'm not tall or bulky, so I can't be an elephant. Perhaps a Tazzy
devil?
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