Bill Gates’ ‘poisoned chalice’ (I)
What can be more horribly said about a treacherous person than what Julius Caesar says of Gaius Cassius Longinus, the two-faced character in the Shakespearean tragic play, ‘Julius Caesar’: “Let me have men about me that are fat” he says, “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous”. And it takes Caesar’s bosom friend Marc Antony , to reassure Caesar: “Fear him not Caesar”, he says, “he is not dangerous; he is a noble Roman, and well given”.
Just before entering parliament to meet his tragic end, a desperate Sophist, Artemidorus, hands Caesar a note in which the plot to assassinate him is exposed, urging him to “read it” because it “touches Caesar nearer!” But as with all tragic characters, Caesar is already hoisted in the petards of his own ruinous flaws. Because tragic characters necessarily suffer the consequences of their own human weakness.
And what is Africa doing about it? Like the tragic character Caesar, she is doing absolutely nothing! Because Africa is long sucked up in the honey pot of Western aid and philanthropy. Africa in the hands of these Cassiusess and Brutusess seems like a Shakespearean tragedy waiting to happen. We are all waiting to be cued to say our last dramatic lines as we ‘strut and fret’ our ‘hour’ upon the stage, and maybe soon we’ll be heard no more.
And so, to me Bill Gates, without apologies, is to Africa, what a shrewdly murderous Cassius has been to a naively non-acting Julius Caesar. Gates is our own ‘sleek-headed’, ‘lean-faced’, ‘hardly-sleeping’, ‘too much-reading’, ‘keenly-observant’, ‘all-work-and-no-play’ modern day villain of a guy who poses as a charitably-benevolent philanthropist to depopulate Africa.
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