Sep 012011
If you want to see a whole hell of a lot of crazy (with a whole lot of NSFW profanity, so be warned), take a look at this:
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Ignorant worldviews like this are the reason why the US is in financial distress. The more people who believe as this woman does, that the world owes her stuff, the more people vote for the sort of politicians who promise to give them free stuff, and the worse things get.
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Good grief. Africa had electricity in ancient times? I guess that explains how they built the pyramids.
She can come live here any time. Lots of people here who don’t pay rent, have minimal amounts of water and sanitation provided free-of-charge… but they would give a kidney to live in a house and not a wood and tin shack that cooks in summer and floods in winter.
Oh, and ixnay on the video camera and youtube account…
> Africa had electricity in ancient times?
Sadly, that’s a common enough belief. The “Afrocentric” worldview espoused by the Nation of Islam and Black Liberation Theologists and other such hold that sub-Saharan Africa was some technologically advanced Atlantis thousands of years ago, until they were messed with by whites/Jews/evil mad scientists/fill-in-the-blank. It’s basically the same nonsense you get from the Nazis and the ancient aliens nuts, just with names and places changed.
> She can come live here any time.
Took a look at your blog to see where “here” is (South Africa, it would seem). I see that you went on a little journey across the US… and damn near drove right past my house. Pity your timing was off. You should’ve ditched the whole “New Orleans” thing and done the “Promontory Utah” thing on September 8. Trust me, that would have been better and more memorable.
Well…she’s articulate if a little heavy on the obscenities. A shame she doesn’t have a realistic world view. I’m not surprised that Africans/Egyptians had batteries – something along the lines of a potato or lemon battery. My only question is, how many lemon batteries does it take to power an anti-gravity device that helped the Egyptians put those massive blocks in place to build their Pyramids.
> something along the lines of a potato or lemon battery.
Look up the “Baghdad Battery.” It seems very very likely that simple batteries were known and used in the Middle East more than 2000 years ago (for *what* is a bit of a mystery… electroplating and medical/religious quackery seem to be about the best options). But then, planetary position computers were known in Greece a bit short of 2,000 years ago, and Greece is no further from sub-Saharan Africa than Iraq is. But that’s not to say that sub-Saharan Africa generated similar technologies.
I took a look at her video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiT_NAHYq-0&feature=related you should watch it she doesn’t seem so wacky and is anti big gubment
> she doesn’t seem so wacky and is anti big gubment
A broken clock.
When I was attending Iowa State University, I could sometimes pick up one of the minor radio stations from Des Moines. This station was a black nationalist station (black panthers, Afrocentrist, whatever… yes, in central friggen’ Iowa) and was constantly trotting out the craziest conspiracy theories and the vilest racism. Yet every now and then they said sensible things like “get out and vote’ and “get a gun and learn how to use it.” It’s rare to find someone who is “entirely” crazy.
“They,” again. It’s always easier to blame someone else.
I hear lectures like this from students at a local university. I think they sense that they will have to work to have anything, and the idea that they may not be able to do it well terrifies them. The woman talking is indeed ignorant and delusional. There are a lot of persons like her.
“The Kemites didn’t drive the world with slave labor, designed for only a few to monopolize the world’s wealth.” (Yeah, I know, I’m being imprecise. It’s a blog comment. Sue me.)
Err…. Kemites are Egyptians, and she actually *said* that?!? Slave labor built the pyramids, for God’s sake! How are the pharoahs getting buried in massive monuments built by slaves and filled with wealth amassed from the backs of serfs and laborers *not* considered to be a few getting rich from slave labor and the monopolization of the world’s wealth?!?
> Slave labor built the pyramids,
Not according to most Egyptologists.
As for those who believe that Egyptians were “black” since Egypt is in Africa: http://up-ship.com/blog/blog/?p=6390
My biggest problem with the dame was her complaint that she has to pay for water. Sure, I can see a child not understanding how something that falls out of the sky could cost money. Fine. Let’s make water free. In order to do that, we’ll have to fire everyone responsible for water. It’ll be fun to watch what happens to, say, Manhattan when all the plumbers, sewer workers, water treatment plant techs and whatnot all decide to leave.
Water costs a whole lot of people a whole lot of time and effort. Very few people willingly work for free.
You’re not paying for the water, you’re paying for the processing and transport so you can have known safe water where you want it when you want it. Much better than water that may carry infectious disease, miles away or down a deep hole, and possibly not there in the dry season.
If she wants to collect runoff from her roof (presuming she lives in her own house), I don’t see a problem with her trying to match the utility service.
Personally, I would love to be able to give her the money so she could move back to Africa. But, only on the condition that she and her descendants could never return to the United States or the North and South American continents.
How long do you think she’d stay in Africa before wanting to come back to the United States? I’d bet on about six months or maybe a year at the most.
…I’d like to see her try the life of an ordinary ancient Egyptian during (oh, let’s not add difficulty) a stable period. By standards of the time, they lived very well and had access to advanced technology,* but they worked darned hard.
People forget how much we take for granted, like indoor plumbing and a lack of fleas and lice.
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* Imagine how totally science-fictiony bronze must have seemed to people used to copper and stone tools! There’s fair evidence for Egyptians using mercury in the extraction and refining of gold, too — nice work, if you’re not the one going mad as a hatter over the hot mercury.