Have One, Are One
A while back I was reading me some internets and I found an article about the One Laptop Per Child initiative. This is some do-gooder scheme to develop a low-cost laptop to provide children all over the world with "a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning." It's a nice idea, giving kids in developing countries an opportunity to acquire a little knowledge. They're really rugged so they can withstand monsoons and sandstorms and camels and shit, and they even have hand cranks built in to power them up when there isn't a convenient electrical outlet nearby which, let's face it, is probably most of the time.
The article then went on to say that Nigeria placed the first actual order for these laptops, paying for one million of these little babies.
Wow.
One million.
I guess this means a million more "I am the widowed wife of President Nnamdi Azikiwe and need to get this large stash of cash out of the country very secretly and very urgently" e-mails crowding my inbox.
I was thinking about this the other day as I was deleting scores of such emails from my account and stewing angrily over the fact that my website was destroyed by a phishing scam, and it occurred to me: In order to make this shitty world a better place, all it would take is for every person on earth to just decide one day not to be an asshole.
Because seriously, the whole problem with the world today isn't that there isn't enough food. It isn't that gas costs a fortune. It isn't even global warming.
It's that people everywhere, for no apparent reason, are such assholes.
Maybe if everyone in the world thought of someone else for a change, things wouldn't have to suck so bad.
Just because you have one doesn't mean you have to be one.
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