Yeah, it's bad. But see, if they stay in the country, then they will have to abide by silly things like laws and rules.
On his "Island" they get to start ab initio and things will be better.
The cynic in me says that doing the drudgery of working in a foreign country (where he's not the head honcho of a romantic enterprise, which is going to change the world) is too mundane, and he'd have to learn the local language, and it would be small scale.
He wants to end the sex trade entire. A noble, it augean task.
My more cynical self says it's a case of Johnson's, "Every many thinks meanly of himself that he was not a soldier" and this is Ryan's chance to be one, and not the run of the mill soldier, pawn to gov'ts and slave to duty, but rather the heroic soldier of myth and legend.
And every time the real world bumps into the mythic, well one of them has to give, and it's not the real world.
This isn't his first adventure into this. He had a concept (I can't call it a business, and now it seems to be dead) called, "Living Legends.", which was the same idea.
If (and it's a very big if) the structural flaws could be overcome, there's something to be said for the idea; not because kidnapping children is a good thing (no matter what the reason) but because having a group who can talk about it; can put a human face on the scale, and scope, of the tragedy, might help to stop it.
But this isn't the way. Want to build a safe haven? As you say, the place to do it is where the shit is happening. Make a visible statement, right there. Make the people turning a blind eye look at it.
Ghosting them away to some distant place, that's just a different form of sweeping things under the rug.
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Date: 2007-07-11 04:40 pm (UTC)On his "Island" they get to start ab initio and things will be better.
The cynic in me says that doing the drudgery of working in a foreign country (where he's not the head honcho of a romantic enterprise, which is going to change the world) is too mundane, and he'd have to learn the local language, and it would be small scale.
He wants to end the sex trade entire. A noble, it augean task.
My more cynical self says it's a case of Johnson's, "Every many thinks meanly of himself that he was not a soldier" and this is Ryan's chance to be one, and not the run of the mill soldier, pawn to gov'ts and slave to duty, but rather the heroic soldier of myth and legend.
And every time the real world bumps into the mythic, well one of them has to give, and it's not the real world.
This isn't his first adventure into this. He had a concept (I can't call it a business, and now it seems to be dead) called, "Living Legends.", which was the same idea.
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If (and it's a very big if) the structural flaws could be overcome, there's something to be said for the idea; not because kidnapping children is a good thing (no matter what the reason) but because having a group who can talk about it; can put a human face on the scale, and scope, of the tragedy, might help to stop it.
But this isn't the way. Want to build a safe haven? As you say, the place to do it is where the shit is happening. Make a visible statement, right there. Make the people turning a blind eye look at it.
Ghosting them away to some distant place, that's just a different form of sweeping things under the rug.
TK