Warning : Pandemic

There a pandemic sweeping across those people who describe themselves as white South Africans. This debilitating illness is spreading like wild fire and paradoxically especially affects those white South Africans who live in other countries. The symptoms include chronic memory loss or distortion of memory, along with generally becoming a raging blowhard.

I've come to this conclusion because white South Africans seem to often have either a very short memory, or in fact a very distorted and revised one. Because sometimes when I'm reading some of the comments the usual muppets make I scratch my head. According to them the country seems to have been some gold paved paradise. A veritable Utopia. Clearly they never set foot in a township.

You see pre 1994 townships were basically tin hut shanty towns on dirt roads. No electricity , clean water or infrastructure. That's probably how a lot of the expat wet mats remember them. To anyone living in South African now clearly knows now this is far from reality. While some of these chronically poor conditions do still exist, for the most part the townships are now loaded up with government built housing with electricity and clean water. In fact having worked in the townships in my city a great proportion of these houses are decked with satellite dishes and garages for their cars. That's not to mention the schools , health clinics, roads etc the government has built.

I remember going on holidays to the Transkei and you in the 'ol days the only person not living in a mud hut would be a high chief. You could laugh off the possibility that anyone had electricity or fresh water. These days mud huts or people living without basic water, electricity are grossly the exception. These are just the facts and they are undeniable in your face in South Africa. How anyone can look you in the eye honestly fool himself to think the lives of black South Africans are now worse is beyond me. That's some serious case of denial against all available evidence. Real head up your ass shit.

But the memory loss does not just affect the medium term since 1994. It also affects long term memories of 50-100 years ago. You see certain members of white South Africans like to think they're racially superior to black people (*cough Afrikaners). To quote someone on http://www.zasucks.com/

Any Afrikaner who now acts all high and mighty and racially superior is either a hypocrite or more likely just ignorant of history. Just a few generations ago the majority of Afrikaners were semi-literate subsistence farmers who lived in poverty and bred like rabbits.

Now I'm not all that old enough to remember South Africa in this pre 1970's boom. But I grew up with an Afrikaans mother and in the days before television she can describe to you a lifestyle and culture closer to homo erectus that homo-sapien. A superstitious people whose philosophy and world view was closer to the dark ages than the enlightenment. A people whose clothing reflected the desire to be camouflaged rather than fashionable. A people whose women's place was still in the kitchen 50 years after he suffragette movement and saw nothing wrong wth beating her into it if need be.

If around about now you're starting to retort to me with "But Rooster , we were oppressed by the English...." ....WOOOAAAAAHHHH THERE SILVER !!!

You see what you did there ? You can't use nurture to argue for nature. You can't claim when you're wealthy now it's because of genetics , but when you were poor and dysfunctional suddenly
it was about "society" and you weren't genetically inferior then. That's dishonest bullshit my friend. No , no..the idea of you being racially superior to black people is just an illusion you're suffering due to a very short memory. You're stuck right in the middle of the pandemic.

So those are the symptoms ....but what's is the cure ?

Well there's no quick fix cure. Certainly getting some perspective has shown to help people significantly improve their memories. In some studies there was shown a strong reverse correlation between people being asswhipes and their memory improving (see graph).

However the most effective way to deal with the pandemic has proved to be managing it rather than curing it. This can easily be achieved with liberal doses of "shutting the fuck up".

Peace and Love

Rooster

Disclaimer : Anyone saying I'm giving the Arikaans people a bad rap is to be fair : A fucking idiot. I'm the one arguing against "racism" in the biological sense and am a cultural relativist.