I am writing out of anger and passion…hopefully it comes across.
Two news articles in CBC news on the web:
Both of these articles were written the same day. One has under 50 comments, the other over 850 at the time of this writing. Idiocracy! In Palestine, the two sides want to completely annhilate the other, like two little boys that will fight each other unless restrained and hundreds write in terrorizing the other side. In Zimbabwe, an evil dictator rules the country, paying off his buddies and the people will not stand together against them.
Meanwhile, people possess outrage over 225 deaths in Gaza while basically ignoring the far more deadly goings on half a continent away. It is a good thing to be outraged – they should – but it definitely seems inbalanced to me that they don’t care a whips a** about the 6x as many deaths in Zimbabwe. While I’m going off about inbalanced. Do you want to know something about 9-11 – under 3,000 people died. How many died in the tsunami in 2004 – an estimated 229,866. I don’t want to put down someone’s loss – it is very real and very painful. And we need advocates. But I hope those who advocate are not just selfishly motivated by their own loss but instead actually care a little about the loss of others also, those who share the same world.
Ok – I’ve ranted! And now I want to just delete it all because it doesn’t come out all nice and pretty. And it is sad, terribly sad, the destructive world we live in, the non-caring, selfish world we live in. But what is the solution? Or is there none – are we doomed to fight and hate till we alone are left in our own little world.
The solution is complicated, or difficult or both. Actually, I think it even gets right down to the purpose of life – why and what we, you and I, live for each and every day. And if our answer is no more than living for our own selfish desire (happy, healthy and wealthy or whatever), then what hope do people like you and I have…
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