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Mickey Z
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Saturday, January 08, 2005
Little Nicky Kristof Bugs Out
I Want My DDT
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
—Upton Sinclair
“There is an odor to any Press Headquarters that is unmistakable… the unavoidable smell of flesh burning quietly and slowly in the service of a machine.”
—Norman Mailer
In a January 8, 2005 New York Times op-ed column ("It’s Time to Spray DDT"), Nicholas D. Kristof begins: “If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there’s one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.”
Why would anyone make such a suggestion? Well, in Little Nicky’s case, let’s start with the fact that he’s just “thrilled” that we are “pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the relief effort.” Ah yes, moments like this tend to bring out that time-honored capitalist response to tragedy: Buy guilt relief, congratulate oneself profusely, and then swiftly return to one’s bubble of denial.
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