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(via Dr Katz, Professional Therapist Season 6, Episode 73 of 81 Garden cartoons - YouTube)

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Johnathan Katz on foreign "aid"

AMY GOODMAN: Well, let’s talk about Haiti as an example of how international aid works or, perhaps more importantly, doesn’t work. It’s three years after. The subtitle of your book, How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster.

JONATHAN KATZ: I mean, part of the problem is that our conception of how foreign aid works is not how it actually happens. We imagine that, you know, powerful countries just have this pot of money, and that when they give foreign aid, they just hand it over to a poorer or vulnerable country, and that if there aren’t results on the ground, that something must have happened—the money must have gotten stolen, or there must have just been gross incompetence, and somebody put the pot somewhere and forgot where they left it, right? But that’s not really what happens.

You know, what ends up happening is the money is spent by the donor governments on their own agencies within their own governments. You know, as I’ve said, the money kind of goes in circles. It goes to priorities that the donors think are important, but are not necessarily actually the priorities that are most important on the ground, or at least are not the priorities that the people who live in these countries actually want. And very little effort is made to cross language barriers, to take into account these gross disparities in power. And so, you know, people come in, and oftentimes they have good intentions. Sometimes they have good intentions combined with their own profit motive. But what ends up happening is that the aid system is helped, the NGOs grow more powerful, the governments are able to, you know, circulate more money amongst themselves and amongst their own favored elements, but, you know, in the case of Haiti, as a really good example, the emergency situation becomes permanent. And every time there is a new crisis, and—the officials can say, "We can’t do it better this time. There’s no time. Let’s do it next time." But then it never changes.

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In short white paintings or silent music inaugurates a process of reading or examination that at least potentially moves the viewer or listener from an unselfconscious complicity with dominant forms of expression (wherein the meaning is passively registered as inherent IN the piece) toward a degree of self-consciousness about one's role as a reader or maker of meanings--towards, in other words, an awareness that meaning is the result of a reading, of an exegetical process that has been naturalized and thus become transparent.

The Silent Camp: Queer Resistance And The Rise Of Pop Art, Johnathan Katz