Re: SETLIST FROM CHINA 4/8/06
Date: April 9, 2006 11:38
MIckbrain, I have no stock in Haliburton, and I am formerly of Hawaii. The last five years has found me delivering medical care on an island of 3000 without a walmart within a two day travel radius BY PLANE. I work 24 hrs per day 7 days per week with 4 days off per month except when I travel, to deliver health care on an island with an avreage income of less than $10,000 per year per capita. I wait for the ice cream to come in on the boat my man.
What I am getting at is the all too quick need to point out greed in others when it is a matter of degree. You and I are disagreeing on the net, so I assume you have a PC and internet access. Do you know what luxury that is to billions around the world? If you sold your PC and donated your monthly interent charge , do you know how many babies in the thrid world we could vacinate against deadly disease? In the last month, have you gone out bar hopping? Have you bought a 12 pack? I live in an area with what you spent, I could buy books for a kid to go to school. And yet, I am sure, you do not feel privledged or special. But to many people here, your life is only something they could envy. Should they be mad at you for what you spend on yourself? Should they be mad at you for not doing what you can for them when it is so obvious to them that you could do more? I do not belive that they have that right to hate you because you have more' so , even though it is a matter of degree, I just cannot understand why you would be so virulent about others not giving more.
So what you see as normal is in many regards a a very luxurious life. I rememeber Sting driving around in a limo bitching about loosiong the rain forest, global warming and the rest. Hey Sting, take some homeless into your castle! So what I am getting at is that the harping at Mick COULD be turned around and leveled at you by people where I live. I have neighbors that woud ask if you are so conecrened why don'y you help more. The whole thing is "Judge Not, as ye shall be judged." I never suggest you look the other way, but that when you are looking all around you, look in the mirror now and then.
I am not trying to make you out as a bad human being, hell, I do not know you. BUT I am saying we are all quick to point out fault. Of course there is the automatic ( and wrong ) assumption that Mick and Keith never give to a good cuause. There is also the ability to sit 10,000 miles away and find all the was wrong with what happened, and ignore that for the people that were involved, for the people who are"being shot," this concert was, no matter what may be though of elsewhere, a ray of sunshine in an icreasingly free world. You can look at the dark side of all those expats being there, or you can see that the silver lining is that 30 years ago, none of them would have been alllowed into the country!
China is opening up...let it grow at its own rate! What else shoud we or can we do...liberate it like we have Iraq?? I never look the other way, that is why I know that your concerns are real. But they are also YOUR CONCERNS, and many people out here have a differnt view of teh future for themselves than you would have for them. That is why they coined the term , "white man's burden."