If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable. Of course you’d want to apply for prestigious fellowships that mark you as an ambitious altruist among your peers. Of course you’d want to fly on planes to exotic locations with, importantly, exotic problems...

There is a whole industry set up to nurture these desires and delusions — most notably, the 1.5m nonprofit organisations registered in the US, many of them focused on helping people abroad. In other words, the young American ego doesn’t appear in a vacuum. Its hubris is encouraged through job and internship opportunities, conferences galore, and cultural propaganda – encompassed so fully in the patronising, dangerously simple phrase “save the world.”...

frank lee bent wrote:yah,it is all good back home.
gotta go civilize the heathen,
let them popo sort out the n*****s or whatever out group they are wanting to ignore to the point of not even naming them using fearful nomenclature.
that is why they evangelize overseas, reality at home is too frightful to consider, they cannot even confront their own internalized concept of otherness.
pussy little gen snowflakes with conditioned racist instincts.
signed, bkktrapper
LOL

Sailorman wrote:I'm saving the world one short-time bar girl at a time. And helping to circulate money through the economy. I wonder if I can start an NGO and scam people in America, Europe, etc. into giving me money to support a life style I'd like to be accustomed too. (like the heads of NGOs here that drive new cars and live in big houses.)

Sailorman wrote:I'm saving the world one short-time bar girl at a time. And helping to circulate money through the economy. I wonder if I can start an NGO and scam people in America, Europe, etc. into giving me money to support a life style I'd like to be accustomed too. (like the heads of NGOs here that drive new cars and live in big houses.)

Seasquatch wrote:

Sailorman wrote:I'm saving the world one short-time bar girl at a time. And helping to circulate money through the economy. I wonder if I can start an NGO and scam people in America, Europe, etc. into giving me money to support a life style I'd like to be accustomed too. (like the heads of NGOs here that drive new cars and live in big houses.)

Brown Lives Matter? I'll sit on the board of directors