September 22, 2003

Conclusions

Poor Nations

In addition to this wholesale murder of the powerless must be added two other factors:

1. Sibling rivalry@ B the fighting between the Adeveloping@ nations themselves, paralleling the fighting of children who receive insufficient love from an abusive mother.

2. The violence within Adeveloping@ nations, originating in their own, still often archaic methods of child rearing. Thus for instance, there are still 150,000,000 women in the world who are circumcised.

Wealthy Nations

1. Wealthy nations are on an infanticidal level in their relationships to powerless Adeveloping@ nations. They are full of hubris and narcissism. Their are arrogant, callous, mean and downright criminal in their dealing with the powerless.

Thus, even with the relatively privileged childhood of most people in the Adeveloped@ countries, these children now grown up still show a remarkably low level of empathy for their fellow human beings across boundary lines. They seem to want to remain Aparents,@ that is, powerful and able to keep privileges from themselves, at all costs.

2. The examples given are just a few among many of similar magnitude of callousness. For example, genetic engineering in the wealthy countries, is altering the genome of basic foodstuff in poor nations:

a. Genetic engineering in Iowa, United States, has contaminated the original, diverse seeds of corn in the cradle of the vegetable B the Zapoteca Indian mountains, in Wahaca, Mexico. This is despite the Mexican government=s prohibition on the planting of genetically engineered corn.

b. Intellectual property rights are a rape of Adeveloping@ countries= genomes, a common heritage of humankind. The Neem tree in India as some 83 patents taken on it by Adeveloped@ countries.

c. The introduction of nuclear power in space is a threat to all humankind and perhaps the planet earth itself.

3. The countries the U.S. has invaded in the past 20 years, are now among the poorest in the world.

4. The authors of the books that I read, mainly political scientists, are angry and appalled at the lack of humanity shown by the powerful today. They rage against Empire.

The United Nations

1. The United Nations Development Reports fail to convey the anger in the world. The Reports imply that we are all Astruggling@ to meet the goals of achieving Ahuman development,@ of ending poverty and of controlling major public health problems. This is hardly the case.

The United Nations=s attitude towards war is not one of emergency. It is one of accepting war as only one factor among the many that interfere with Adevelopment.@ Thus, war Ahits@ people (like malaria) and Aaffects@ them:

AViolent conflict is a key obstacle to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. During 1990-2001, there were 57 major armed conflicts in 45 locations. Sub-Saharan Africa has been hit the hardest, but no developing region has been unaffected.@

The United Nations inverts the consequences of war and the purpose of war: Thus, instead of destruction being the purpose of war, it becomes a consequence of war:

ABeyond its direct cost in human lives, conflict can undermine economies, destabilize governments, damage infrastructure, disrupt social service delivery and provoke mass movements of people.@

The United Nations does not consider infanticide, thus hiding a major source of death in girls. Its Reports present no statistics on sex ratios at birth and make no mention that this might be a problem. In Hadryana, India, the sex ratio at birth is 167 males for every 100 females. Hence, two-thirds of girls are killed either at or before birth.

The United Nations does not question whether its goals are achievable. The earth is unable to sustain the over 7,000,000,000 people expected in 2015 at the level of Adevelopment@ of the OECD countries. The goal is, therefore, unachievable.