Rants & Epiphanies
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“Wisdom that will bless I, who live in the spiral joy born at the utter end of a black prayer.” • — Keiji Haino “The subject of human creativity is not an ethnic-centric, but a composite subject.” • — Anthony Braxton “… It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.” • — The Marquis de Sade
CNN, MSNBC, Fox, ABC, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Sky News... ARE ALL TRASH!!! Those silent on the Gaza Genocide will cheer for the killing of Africans.
Calling the people you’re committing genocide on ‘barbarians’ at the world’s global summit of powerful leaders is every bit the Orwellian clusterfuck it looks.
Childkillers in suits with dead eyes unironically condemning their victims as savages—this is the legacy of the West. https://t.co/aTH0L4lqPu
A number of African countries appear to be in the early stages of their own industrial revolution, promising to lift hundreds of millions out of grinding poverty. Much of the impetus for this transformation is coming from Chinese investment
But when confronted with this news, some well-meaning Westerners -- as well as some wary Africans -- worry that what’s really happening is a new form of colonialism. This worry especially crops up with respect to China and its large, well-publicized infrastructure projects, but it also sometimes gets applied to independent Chinese-owned factories operating on the continent, or just to foreign investment in general. If foreigners are profiting from Africa’s rise, some reason, that can only mean the continent’s resources are being extracted on unfair terms.
This concern is natural, given Africa’s tragic recent history of foreign conquest, occupation and exploitation. And in the case of China’s infrastructure projects, the worry may be justified. But privately owned factories in Africa are not a colonial project.
In part three of Hello World Shenzhen, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Ashlee Vance heads out into a city where you can't use cash or credit cards, only your smartphone, where AI facial-recognition software instantly spots and tickets jaywalkers, and where at least one factory barely needs people. This is the society that China's government and leading tech companies are racing to make a reality, with little time to question which advancements are net positives for the rest of us. Part One - Inside China's Future Factory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLmaI… Part Two - China's High Stakes Robot Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhvZ… https://www.bloomberg.com/hello-world
