The Masai and Avaricious Dubai — a Short Allegory about Greed

© 2014 Peter Free

 

18 November 2014

 

 

This story synopsizes world ethics

 

From African correspondent, David Smith:

 

 

Tanzania has been accused of reneging on its promise to 40,000 Masai pastoralists by going ahead with plans to evict them and turn their ancestral land into a reserve for the royal family of Dubai to hunt big game.

 

[T]he Masai have been ordered to quit their traditional lands by the end of the year. Masai representatives will meet the prime minister, Mizengo Pinda, in Dodoma on Tuesday to express their anger.

 

They insist the sale of the land would rob them of their heritage and directly or indirectly affect the livelihoods of 80,000 people. The area is crucial for grazing livestock on which the nomadic Masai depend.

 

© 2014 David Smith, Tanzania accused of backtracking over sale of Masai’s ancestral land, Guardian (16 November 2014) (extracts)

 

 

Other than Dubai’s elite, who benefits?

 

A corporation — naturally:

 

 

The deal was brokered by the Ortelo Business Corporation (OBC), a luxury safari company with a number of elite clients.

 

© 2014 Joanna Rothkopf, Tanzania will sell Masai homeland to Dubai royal family, Salon (17 November 2014)

 

 

The moral? — Pretty much the way the United States treats its non-elite

 

Humanity’s most prevalent sins are greed and over-the-top self-involvement. People displaying both run world governments.

 

This seems to be the inevitable historically displayed paradigm — at least, until the oppressed finally recognize that grasping plutocrats are (literally) no more deserving of material comfort than they are.

 

In unpleasant ways, avenues of resistance are embodied:

 

(a) in the hope implied in the United States’ twisted butchery of the Second Amendment

 

and

 

(b) in foreign insurgents’ repeatedly demonstrated ability to stand against America’s Military Industrial Complex.

 

The irony is that the Complex profits from armed resistance. The more there is, the richer and more influential it gets.

 

An optimist can be excused for becoming a pessimist. We humans are a spiritually sorry lot, given to inverting the religious tenets we profess to believe.