SO SHINY. Seriously, us/homework OTP! We are like two sides of the same major. My fannishness cannot truly hate that which makes it EVEN GEEKIER. Zeeeeeee.
The soul is a prison to the body. What if the people are the antithesis, and the land is synthesis?
re: Economic Hitman, Zaire. Here is my knee-jerk beliefs: IT'S TRUE. The colonies gained independence, but in name only. The power structure isn't as overt. Europe made its wealth on the colonies, so they're not going to let all these resources completely break away. They have to engineer a new ways to keep their fingers in the pies, how to perpetuate vulnerability and dependency. So they're all, "We'll only give you this aid package if you do the following things that are advantageous to us, and also to you of course, um," and now there are tractors rusting in Uganda that the people they're supposed to benefit don't know how to fix or where to get spare parts from, and even when Australia and New Zealand gives little Oceanic countries grants, it comes with the concession of exclusive trading rights. Why is a country like the Philippines the #4 importer of rice? Why do archipelagos get development plans from the multilaterals that don't account properly for their coastal resources? Structural adjustment and neoliberalism is round peg into square hole, and they KNOW THIS, but that's okay, 'cos they're not actually trying to fix that much. omg debt. argh.
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The soul is a prison to the body. What if the people are the antithesis, and the land is synthesis?
re: Economic Hitman, Zaire. Here is my knee-jerk beliefs: IT'S TRUE. The colonies gained independence, but in name only. The power structure isn't as overt. Europe made its wealth on the colonies, so they're not going to let all these resources completely break away. They have to engineer a new ways to keep their fingers in the pies, how to perpetuate vulnerability and dependency. So they're all, "We'll only give you this aid package if you do the following things that are advantageous to us, and also to you of course, um," and now there are tractors rusting in Uganda that the people they're supposed to benefit don't know how to fix or where to get spare parts from, and even when Australia and New Zealand gives little Oceanic countries grants, it comes with the concession of exclusive trading rights. Why is a country like the Philippines the #4 importer of rice? Why do archipelagos get development plans from the multilaterals that don't account properly for their coastal resources? Structural adjustment and neoliberalism is round peg into square hole, and they KNOW THIS, but that's okay, 'cos they're not actually trying to fix that much. omg debt. argh.