Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Monday, March 15, 2010

A book

that may put a different face on a situation which people apparently have simplistic misconceived ideas...

Darfur: every celeb’s favourite African war

"A new book reveals how celebrities’ and human rights activists’ simple-minded moral posturing on Darfur made the conflict even worse."
Situations are often more complex than a simple 'save the whatever' protest can deal with, but who knows who is correct and what the correct solution is? One thing I do know is that we must be very leery about following the lead of celebrities. They, like us, are simply dull normals, but dull normals with agents...


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