{"id":1440,"date":"2003-09-15T18:46:58","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/15\/depopulation-as-policy\/"},"modified":"2003-09-15T18:46:58","modified_gmt":"2003-09-15T22:46:58","slug":"depopulation-as-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/15\/depopulation-as-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Depopulation as Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One line in my recently posted essay "Approaching
\n Critical Mass<\/a>" has
\n drawn some pointed responses. I wrote, "Would the developed world’s
\n ignorance of the million-man massacres going on right now in the Congo
\n continue if there were a blogger in every village in Central Africa?"<\/p>\n

Keith Harmon Snow, owner of the beautifully designed site Allthingspass<\/a>,
\n responds Socratically with another question, "Do you care? Or is your comment
\n merely incidental?"<\/p>\n

Well, Keith, the answer it that I know I OUGHT to care, and as an aspiring
\n compassionate human being I WANT to care, but the news available on the
\n subject is so horrifying and impersonally presented that I am having
\n a hard time relating. To what degree my shameful ignorance is due to a
\n far reaching conspiracy of genocidal power-mongers and to what degree due
\n to my personal failings is an extrememly complex political and moral question
\n each of us will have to answer for him or herself.<\/p>\n

Readers who want to learn more about this appaling situation would be
\n well advised to check out Keith’s article "Depopulation
\n as Policy<\/a>". I
\n still think a more effective way to reach numbskulls like me would be
\n a direct-from-the-scene blog where we could experience the day-to-day realities
\n of people like us living in hell. Unfortunately, I guess the infrastructure
\n to make that possible isn’t there.  Does anyone know of any blogs
\n written by Africans in the countries affected by these horrors?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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