Dysfunctional?

Much has been made of the relative failure to accomplish basic work outcomes with the huge influx of international cash here in Afghanistan...

But what, oh what, is the basis for expecting efficiency and reasonable outcomes from given inputs here? Some people have cried that... let's rewind another step...

What exactly is the priority of society, what has it been? Work? No. Efficiency? No. Family, honor, pride, yes...

Imagine we in the west went to the western world and tried to achieve development 'milestones' of reducing divorce, teenage pregnancies, and the like... How far would we get, even with a huge influx of resources?

Heck, would we even know that much about how to manage any 'resource' to try and achieve milestones like that? Doesn't look like it... So many social care groups, family groups, churches, etc, and are we getting any closer to the 'milestones'?

Hell no... Before university I worked for Turning Point, at the time as I recall the UK's biggest social care provider. I was working mostly with learning disabilities, people effectively without family in many cases... It's a lot more rare that Afghanistan would be, in this regard, so dysfunctional...

It's frustrating to see a dysfunctional situation, in any guise... Here people complain all the time about how dirty Kabul is... then throw trash straight out the car window as they complain. But then don't we bemoan the status of our society as we sexualize materials for a younger and younger target audience and buy glossy magazines (or read it online) about the private lives of celebs?