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The Saudis have simply too much oil money and too much time and too much religious fanaticism with too little education.
This can be since in many arenas of Saudi life. Take the now annual goat beauty pageant. I am not making this up. Every year, wealthy Saudi men would congregate under a large tent and judge the beauty of horses and a bidding would ensure. But then some religious extremist declared horses just too damn sexy and thus it is simply decadent and immoral to gaze the rear of a horse. So since last year, the horses have been replaced with goats. At the annual goat fuc$%er convention, some sell for as much as $30,000. Although, of course, atypical in Saudi life this is the perfect example of the merger of religious fundamentalism and too much idle oil money.
The Saudis - the princes and those close to the al-Saud royal family - have simply to much in cash reserves with too little education. Educated men and women whom earn their money appreciate the virtues in promoting education and culture. That is why the rich in American, for instance, donate greatly to universities, foundations and museums. But the Saudis have amassed hundreds of billions with little to show for it. Saudi Arabia, for example, does not boost a single university that ranks among the world's top 500 schools. Wealthy Saudis, or the government directly, could have established world class centers of study and research with all the money they have. But, alas, people born incalculably rich without ever needing to work a day have little regard for such values. The princes are often illiterate Playboys. Tiny Israel, with almost no oil, has 7 top 500 schools while Saudi university graduates are often born unequipped for the 21st century.
The Saudis do not spend on culture, they spend their money on meaningless vanity. The wealthy princes do not care to better their country by establishing a museum, but, instead, do spend to show off their wealth. The extravagance of such dimwitted princes knows no bounds. I thought diamond-clad Mercedes and velvet suits would be the low, but never estimate the stupidity of a Saudi prince:
A Saudi businessman has purchased what is being described by the Canadian seller as the world's most expensive adult novelty item -- a solid 18-carat gold penis enlarger worth nearly 50,000 dollars.
This is the awful combination of great wealth from birth, no appreciation of earning one's money and very little, if any, education. What will they have to show for when the oil is gone?
