March 10, 2012 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Hey everybody, it's Defend Modern and Free Domain Radio. | |
| Hope you're doing well. Oh, I've resisted the pull, but I have so many requests for my thoughts on Kony 2012 that I will share a few. | |
| Please take everything I say as coming out entirely of a wet armpit because I am certainly no expert on the history of Uganda, but these are some of the thoughts I had. | |
| So I did watch the video. | |
| First off, don't be telling your kids who are four years old or however old that toddler is, don't be sitting down with your kids and filming them To tell them about child soldiers and hacking people's faces up and bad guys who need to be killed by other guys in green costumes. | |
| That's not what four-year-olds can really process. | |
| Particularly don't do it when you're asking for lots of money for kits and taking the majority of it for your organization and only giving less than a third of it to the recipients, some of whom are the Ugandan army who have a brutal history of rape and theft and corruption. | |
| So that really did not sit well with me at all. | |
| at all. | |
| That seemed very exploitive to put your kid on that and pepper him with questions about how evil guys who force children to kill people should be dealt with. | |
| That is not an appropriate topic for a four-year-old. | |
| Anyway, from what I've read, Kony, of course, did his worst atrocities like 12, 13 years ago, has been fairly inactive for five years, is considered dead by many Ugandans, and is not even in Uganda. | |
| But obviously, a stone evil guy, and it would be great to stop him. | |
| But outside the world of G.I. Joe, in the real world of human conflict, you have to be a little bit more intelligent about the way that you approach these things. | |
| The purpose of the film, they say, we'll send 100 American advisors into the Ugandan jungle, and those advisors will what? | |
| What are they going to do? Here's my impression of an American advisor in Uganda. | |
| Hey, how you doing? We're gonna catch this... | |
| Kony? | |
| Kony, is that right? Kony? | |
| Did I get that right? Okay. We're gonna catch him. | |
| We don't know the jungle. | |
| We don't know Uganda. | |
| Fuck, it's hot here. Do you know where he is? | |
| What? You don't speak English? | |
| Anybody here speak... | |
| What do you speak here? | |
| Ugandiden? What? | |
| No? Anybody here speak... | |
| What do they speak here? Well, there are a hundred of us, and we're advisors, see? | |
| And we want to help you with advice. | |
| So my advice is, what you got to do, you got to go into the jungle, and you got to catch this guy. | |
| What? He's got, what, he's got kids? | |
| Right, yeah, so he's got kids all around him, and so you've got to go into the jungle to find this guy, if he's even alive. | |
| You've got to find him, and you've got to take him prisoner, I guess, or kill him, but don't hurt any of the kids, because that would look real bad, right? | |
| So my advice is go into the jungle, find this guy, kill this guy, don't kill any of the kids, and bring back proof. | |
| And I guess we'll try and learn some of the local dialect while you're gone. | |
| Peace out. That's my impression of an American advisor. | |
| You can, of course, submit that to the academy boards as you see fit. | |
| But what are they going to do there? | |
| Advise them to go? I mean, they don't... | |
| Anyway, you understand it's kind of ridiculous. | |
| To ask the government, the U.S. government, oh, how do you even explain this? | |
| To ask the U.S. government to expand its power is not the height of activism. | |
| In fact, that is really just swimming with the stream, the bloody, wet, ugly, head-filled stream of state power. | |
| Hey, U.S. government, would you like to do more militarism? | |
| Would you like to sell some more weapons? | |
| Would you like to get some more jobs for the military-industrial complex? | |
| You would! Well, I guess... | |
| I'm an activist now. | |
| No. The real challenge of activism is not to get the state to expand its power, but to get the state to contract its power. | |
| So, if you really want to help Africa, a couple of things you can do. | |
| Stop foreign aid. | |
| Foreign aid goes to the governments. | |
| The governments use the money from foreign aid to buy Weapons from governments, largely the US, the English, and the Russian governments. | |
| So let's stop giving people money in order to have them buy weapons from our governments in order to repress their own people. | |
| Free subsidization of totalitarian evil does not help the people of Africa. | |
| So how about we stop with foreign aid and how about we stop with arms sales to dictators? | |
| That would be something that I think would do a heck of a lot more good than having a hundred guys standing around in the jungle picking their noses. | |
| Second, well, I guess third, if you count those two. | |
| A third, I would strongly suggest that if you want to help people in third world countries, how about you stop agricultural subsidies in the West? | |
| Because that produces a massive amount of goods that are dumped on third world markets, thus rendering the local farmers pretty damn useless in terms of providing food for their local population. | |
| So, that's not very good. | |
| Number four... How about telling the government to stop the war on drugs? | |
| The war on drugs, combined with agricultural subsidies and the dumping of agricultural produce on third world countries, means that these farmers turn from the production of goods which are healthy for people, towards the production of goods that are healthy for people's delusions. | |
| Hard drugs and so on. So, these are things that would be a much more, I think, intelligent and productive thing to do if you wanted to help. | |
| See, people in the third world, they don't need our charity. | |
| They don't need our help. | |
| What they need is for us to stop arming their dictatorships, stop dumping food on their markets, stop killing their local economies. | |
| Oh, here's number five. | |
| How about open up trade barriers? | |
| Pretty basic one in the US. Drop sugar subsidies and trade barriers on sugar. | |
| That would be a great way to help people in the third world. | |
| It's like we've got, you know, one boot on the neck of Africa and the Africans, and we're sort of staring down at their twisted, pitiful, horrified faces and saying, how can we help you? |
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