Monday, 22 July 2013

Foreign Aid: Gift?

According to Derrida 1992: " For there to be a gift, there must be no reciprocity, return, exchange, countergift, or debt. If the other gives me back or owes me or has to give me back what I give him or her, there will not have been a gift, whether this restitution is immediate or whether it is programmed by a complex calculation of a long-term deferral or difference.

For there to be a gift, it is necessary ... that the donee not give back, amortize, reimburse, acquit himself, enter into a contract, and that he never have contracted a debt ... It is thus necessary, at the limit, that he not recognize the gift as gift. If he recognizes it as gift, if the gift appears to him as such, if the present is present to him as present, this simple recognition suffices to annul the gift. Why? Because it gives back, in the place, let us say, of the thing itself, a symbolic equivalent"

All I can say is "Selah!"(Think on that)!!!!

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