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We've all seen the footage: Sad, desperate people scrabbling for food being dispensed from the backs of trucks.
If we're going to really make a difference to so many lives then I feel it's only fair that we should make the process an enjoyable one. For those able to weild a stick, trucks loaded
with hundreds of piñata pull up and a device unfolds, until they are hanging within reach of the multitude. For those too weak, a massive piñata loaded with food parcels with individual parachutes flies over the mob, dispensing as it goes.
It will take a few minds off suffering for a while.
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In the early 1970's when American cynicism was at a new nadir, there was a ubiquitous poster depicting a toothless starving Bangladeshi man trying to eat a Baby Ruth candy bar that he had received in a C.A.R.E. crate. The point of the poster was that the USA's efforts to improve conditions for others in the world was poorly conceived, and even more poorly executed. This reminds me of that same cynicism. (I'll try to find a link.) [Added later: Sorry to report that I can't locate the referenced poster in the archives.] |
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<Note to self> Never underestimate the ability of halfbakers to see through the manufactured facade of respectability to the rotten core of astringent social comment. |
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I had in mind the fiasco of the airdrop of food in Afghanistan. Equally misdirected. |
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Yes, much easier to be sarcastic on HalfBakery then to actually distribute food in Afghanistan. |
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No-one knows that better than me. Perhaps I should have poked the eye of the aid agencies who make a point of attaching a religious significance to humanitarian aid? |
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Putting away the stick. <sigh> |
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Clothe the truck itself in paper-maché and let the reliefees have at it... |
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...this is baked, isn't it? [UnaBubba], don't play with my mind. |
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At least you have one. Count yourself fortunate. |
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<blank smile. buries head back into "Birdsong"> |
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Charity, starts out as a good idea but even the softest hearts seem to cave in to greed or power or ?
We had a great program going for awhile, the "Food Banks", they received donations of nourishing food items, decent quality too, of breads, meats, cheese, etc from manufacturers and the supermarket chains' warehouses. Truckloads of quality products were to be divided up among many needy families to provide a few good meals each week.
It didn't take a month before the good stuff disappeared before it got to distribution points... Do-Good Volunteers were taking 3/4 off the top for themselves and friends so the poor remained hungry.
I think your method of distribution offers more possibility of items reaching the right people... guess you could only hope it was the right items. |
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I would be very disappointed if I did not get diapers from the diaper-shaped pinatas. |
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