Uhh...Thanks for the Help, But...

All this said, it is somewhat moving to see so much care about the world. To me, Bono was one of the few voices that had any kind of prophetic quality in all of this. He had the kind of authority you hold your breath at when he said this was an historic moment for the world. I loved it when he sang, "After the flood all the colours came out," and the doves were released.

In the end, this show had a ton of ironies, not the least of which were the performers. Randy Bachman showed he could still put on a good show. Yet, how does the laziness extolled in "Taking Care of Business" remove poverty?! How does the skankiness of Madonna and the gansgterism of Jay-Z remove poverty either? Isn't the same kind of self-congratulatory indulgence in these people the same problem that keeps the West from helping in the first place?

[via EternaLee]