Jul 4
Live 8 worthwhile?
Besides getting Pink Floyd together with Roger Waters is the Live 8 event going achieve anything? The Telegraph has some doubts; however, they are pleased that Geldof managed to keep the event from turning into an anti-Bush rant.
Shane Frith was kind enough to send me a link to an interesting piece about while Live 8 won’t make much difference at all. The trouble with the Make Poverty History idea is that its all sentiment and does not have any basis in reality; it’s overly simplistic. There was no talk about getting rid of Mugabe and other tyrants in Africa, merely about the plaster of “debt relief”. Overall the entire thing strikes me as “white man’s burden,” Africa can’t help itself so they want the West to do it for them.
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.
Here is the most recent winning council post; here is the most recent winning non-council post, here is the list of results for the latest vote, and here is the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.
