For their part, the people of the developing world should continue being authentically poor, idyllic, and wild, while the donor elites and NGO’s, overcome by this genuine authenticity, send messages of encouragement
Brian O’Nolan, otherwise known as Flann O Brien, was at his absolute best when his parody was closest to the bone. In a satirical scene in his best novel (in my opinon), An Béal Bocht (the Poor Mouth), he brings “na Daoine Uasaile” –the educated elite- down from Dublin, to poverty stricken west Kerry, to […]