Tuesday 23/8/05

I have been thinking about live 8 etc and the whole idea of "charity". To me that c word is just an invented word to make people who really dont want to give at all, feel a little better about doing so.I personally dont believe at all in that word, and what does it make the person or people on the receiving end, charity cases??????? It is very difficult to stomach bono & co making impassioned pleas for more money, when he doesnt pay any tax in this country and his personal fortune would equal the GDP of one of these third world countries.

By all means, use your celebrity status to shine a light on an issue such as this, but leave it at that. I'm sure your wife's good influence has rubbed off on you, and maybe you have indulged all your material wants and desires, and are now turning your lofty eye to issues of world peace and poverty. Although, I do give him full credit, he could very easily just continue to sing, tour and rake in millions and live in unthinking luxury, but he is using his position to shine a light on these issues. There are deeper issues at work, keeping the peoples of these countries enslaved to subsistence. I dont think I'd trust any of these governments to distribute aid among their own countrymen, when they are so busy fighting civil wars with boy soldiers.You dont have to go far to see how fundamentally selfish we are.

In all big cities, there are people sleeping rough, while crowds of people rush past them, spent from a frantic days shopping or off to another pub or social event. It is sometimes very hard to be optimistic in this day and age, and search for a glimmer of humanity in people. Maybe we wrongly look for in others, the qualities and strenghts which we feel we lack. Or maybe we have the power to make a difference within us all along, but we just need someone or some occasion to unveil it?

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