Good Samaritains

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Voilà le texte, mon expression est après.

The Good Samaritans.
These are not the people you expect to come to the rescue. Rock stars are designed to be shiny, shallow creatures, furloughed from reality for all time. Billionaires are even more removed, nestled atop fantastic wealth where they never again have to place their own calls or defrost dinner or fly commercial. so Bono spends several thousand dollars at a restaurant for a nice Pinot Noir, and Bill Gates, the great predator of the Internet age, has a trampoline room in his $100 million house. It makes you think that if these guys can decide to make it their mission to save the world, partner with people they would never otherwise meet, care about causes that are not sexy or dignified in the ways that celebrities normally require, then no one really has a good excuse anymore for just staying on the sidelines and watching. [...]
The challenge of "stupid poverty" -the people who die for want of a $2 pill because they live on a $1 a day -was enough to draw Gates away from Microsoft years before he intended to shift his focus from making money to giving it away. He and Melinda looked around and recognized a system failure. "Those lives were being treated as if they weren't valuable," Gates told FORTUNE in 2002. "Well, when you have the resources that could make a very big impact, you can't just say to yourseld, OK, when I'm 60, I'll get around to that. Stand by."
There have always been rich and famous people who feel the call to "give back", which is where big marble buildings and opera houses come from. But Bill and Melinda didn't set out to win any prizes -or friends-. "They've gone into international health", says Paul Farmer, a public-health pioneer, and said, "What are you guys kidding, is it the best you can do?" Gates's standards are shaping the charitable marketplace as he has the software business. "He wants to know where every penny goes," says Bono, whose DATA got off the ground with a Gates foundation grant. "Not because those pennies mean so much to him, but because he's demanding efficiency." His rigor has been a blessing to everyone -not least of all Bono, who was at particular risk of not being taken seriously, just another guilty white guy pestering people for more money without focusing on where it goes. "When an Irish rock star starts talking about it, people go, yeah, you're paid to be indulged and have these ideas," Bono says. "But when Bill Gates says you can fix malaria in 10 years, they know he's done a few speadsheets. [...]
Bono grasps that politicans don't much like being yelled at by activists who tell them no matter what they do, it's not enough. Bono knows it's never enough, but he also knows how to say so in a way that doesn't leave his audience feeling helpless. He invites everyone into the game, in a way that makes them think they are missing something if they hold back. "After so many years in Washingtion," says retired Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, whom Bono recruited for his cause, "I had met enough well-known people to quickly figure out who was genuine. He has absolutely nothing to gain personally as a result of his work. In fact, he has opened himself to criticism because he has been willing to work with anyone to find gelp for these children who have taken his heart."
This is not about pity. It's more about passion. Pity sees suffering and wants to ease the pain; passion sees injustice and wants to settle the score. Pity implores the powerful to pay attention; passion warns them about what will happen if they don't. The risk of pity is that it kills with kindness ; the promise of passion is that it builds on the hope that the poor are fully capable of helping themselves if given the chance. In 2005 the world's poor needed no more condolences; they needed people to get interested, get mad and then get to work.
Extracts from "Persons of Year" in Time Magazine

Où j'en suis dans mon devoir

Le texte commence par cette idée de sauver le monde, mais que c'est du faux. Les artistes ou personnes richent font ça pour avoir bonne consicence et une bonne image d'eux, mais çaa ne sert à rien et ne fait pas avancer les choses.
Les bons samaritains si j'ai bien compris ce sont les personnes riches, millionaires, les rock star.
Leur actes sont peu dignes, les actions ou gestes sont là pour sauver leur image ou leur carrière. Avec tout l'argent et les biens qu'ils ont dans leur maison ou les caprices qu'ils font cela ne peut pas aller avoir la cause humanitaire, la santé, ou le manque d'argent des pays pauvres.
Je ne comprends pas le passage de "He and Melinda..." jusqu'à "Stand by."
Les riches appellent à donner, Paul Farmer est un des pionnier de la santé publique. Ils les dénoncent. Car Gates veut savoir où va chaque centimes de son argent dans cette association. Il dit que Bill Gates voulait sauver le paludisme en dix ans.
Bono lui dénonce les militants qui disent que ce qu'il fait n'est pas suffisant. Lui le sent et se sent impuissant.
Le sénateur Jesse Helms dit que Bono à rien à gagner professionnelement à faire ça. Il ouvre la critique. Et dit qu'il a été prét à bosser avec n'importe qui pour aider les enfants.
Ce n'est pas de la pitié mais de la compassion mélangé avec leur passion pour atténuer la douleur et l'injustice des pays pauvres. J'ai pas vraiment compris le dernier paragraphe.
Les deux personnes connus sont Bono (le chanteur de U2???) et Gates. Mais je comprends pas le lien entre les deux personnes. Le créateur de Windows et un Rockeur, oui mais pourquoi ?
Y'a des passages que je comprnds pas tellement et que je trouve pas de lien entre les parties en fait. Est-ce que j'ai des contres sens, ou éléments importants que je n'ai pas dit s'il vous plait.
Merci.