Two very interesting posts by Philip Greenspun on Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari.
"Africans are basically incompetent at anything other than having a good time. They can't drive. They can't prepare a vehicle for a journey properly or change a tire. They can't grow food on a large scale. The smarter Africans sometimes are able to dupe a white person into making something work and then they steal it. "
"As portrayed in films and beer commercials, "fun" for the American male is hanging out with friends, drinking beer, and having sex, preferably with a series of different young women. African guys manage to engage in these activities nearly every waking hour by Theroux's account.
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Partying hard and dropping dead from AIDS at age 40 doesn't sound ideal. But it is really worse than sitting at a desk until age 70 processing insurance forms or programming in C?"
