 clipette says: I've been thinking this to myself privately but didn't wanna seem insensitive, but now that juan cole is with me I can raise the issue. This is not to say that you can really compare deaths and loss and grief, but its something to think about. This has been in the back of my mind as well Clipette. There are horrors happening all over the globe that happen every hour of everyday. There is no outcry or 'press coverage' that brings it to an end. There is no end. Perhaps this is a way the Earth balances against our invasion onslaught. Without mass deaths of humans we would overrun Mother Earth and kill her. I think it just depends on the proximity of the tragedy. Americans were all involved closely as we made war on Iraq, we got distanced as the status quo of war continued. The same will happen here with VT tragedy. This is just human nature, only getting more focus due to mass communication. I think your point is very valid. It is sad when we only care about our "own". When really we are all each other's to take care of.... even the obnoxious and contentious lordthor. I agree, even the obnoxious and contentious ones, because us avoiding them is a problem. However, I must confess myself that "lordthor" is on mute from my end, but apparently, or it seems, that he's got two IDs on the system. I just don't have energy now-a-days to spend time on comments coming out of this person. I can see that others are tolerating and my only hope is that the obnoxious and contentious ones only get some clues from others on how to be civil in this day and age. We have more than 3.5 Va Techs on our nations highways every single day (2002 statistics). And again: from http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2007/feb_07.htm 35,000 people die of starvation in a world of plenty. Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year that catastrophe goes on and on. Abbysname clipped this image that visualizes the idea of this clip. We live in a country where in many ways we are insulated from the violence in the rest of the world. What media coverage the war and darfur and the starving and suffering get is small bites. Even many of the poorest Americans feel themselves somehow separate from and often better than the people in other countries who are suffering. An example is how often we hear someone say something like, " Why are we sending food to [insert any hungry country] when there are people starving right here at home?" Being "poor" or "needy" in this country is a far cry from what it means to be those things in other places. Living in daily fear of the bomb that may level your home, or the soldiers that may ... |
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