you’re taking the low road and getting responses, because it’s a celebrity culture. And many who jump on the bandwagon here just give you the high five because it’s Bono, who they hate.

Good try, though.

But if it’s good enough for Bono, whose behavior you seem to loathe, I guess it’s good enough for you.

Now try using the photoshop girls to draw attention to the textile workers.

Also think that Africa — as with the individual — is ennobled and empowered by focusing on it’s potentials, contributions, and strengths.

This post does not do that. Focuses on the failures of a man, one individual . . . and the pile up then ensues.

Perhaps I can’t hate Bono because I just don’t know or care enough. Don’t pay attention to the MSM, so I really have no thoughts on what a pretentious despicable human being he is.

I don’t need to. Not how I work.

I just know that this post lacks what so many entries offer, and I find it way too telling.

I understand the gist of this post: it calls attention to many issues, including the hubris of the West (especially “celebrities”) in playing savior to regions of the world that have born Imperialism’s brunt, in this case, specifically Africa.

Attenborough’s “Gandhi” is on IFC this afternoon, and I’m reminded once again of the truth that a people can and must always free themselves, or it’s not freedom, not development, not growth.

Intervention at some point must cede to personal liberty and a recognition of personal power.

That written, the “popularity” of this post and the comments smack to this reader of irony. Irony abounds all over,

For all the yammering against celebrities, the high fives here and there, most of the accolades and kudos laid here are precisely because Bono’s a celebrity.

I’m assuming all those here would care as much about the hardship of female textile workers, and other such invisible causes. That particular post got few responses, if I remember correctly.

Instead, the white male taking on another white male in a metaphorical boxing match, well that will get the viewers attention. WWF for the social causes literati is how this post reads to this ignorant, ill informed viewer.

I find little truly productive in this post: it may have raised some awareness, but as Kristof pointed out in his recent column, it’s not an either or at this point.

Top down and bottom up.

And don’t forget, while the white western males are bucking it out for what is best for the African “people,” the black women on the ground will do all the work.

This just smacks to me of more hubris, as well intentioned as Bono’s.

And we know that Bill Easterly thinks the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

And only a few of the comments offer any thing substantive on real issues, just smart cracks from wanna be Saturday Night Live skit writers.

Meanwhile, negotiation is always the best road, as Kristof has shown.

Celebrity or intellect is neither good or superior. Only thinking makes it so.

This is just a quick post, sorry for editing oversights.