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June 27, 2005
John Hinderaker's all wrong on Live 8
John Hinderaker is one of my favorite bloggers. But his weird fascination with Live 8 reeks of a mid-life crisis. Consider this post and this one (yay! Bono likes us!). For one thing, I've always thought (or hoped) conservatives agree that, as Captain Ed wrote today:
"Celebrities, for some reason, continually get drawn to political issues on which they know next to nothing. Most of the time, this makes for meaningless and harmless political comedy...The definition of celebrity has begun to transform into "celebration of stupidity."
Who gives a damn what Bono thinks about Africa policy anyway? I understand celebrities bring attention to worthwhile causes, and that it's noteworthy when one of them is ballsy enough to compliment a Republican. But Hinderaker hardly stops there. In fact he's devoted quite some time to getting Live 8 off the ground.
Problem is, Live 8 is a prototype for bad liberal policy (spend more money/reap political benefits for "compassion" etc). As the level-headed are pointing out, Live 8 has little chance of succeeding, and may hurt its intended beneficiaries (as I said: typical liberal policy). See, e.g, this article, which points out that in Africa, aid does not bring relief, no matter how happy one feels by virtue of having tried; or this one, which concludes:
If people really want to help Africa, they can spend July 2 lobbying Congress and the White House to force the Sudan to stop the Darfur genocide, pressuring health organizations to mobilize against AIDS and raising serious amounts of money to feed millions of starving kids and their parents -- rather than boogeying to the sounds of Bon Jovi, Maroon 5 and the Barenaked Ladies.
As Le Professor points out, feeling good about one's attempt to help is not the same as helping. It's disappointing to that John Hinderaker has bought into Live 8's feel-good fraud. Someone buy that man a sports car.
Posted by bill at June 27, 2005 08:06 PM
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