Trajedy
"a very sad or tragic event or sequence of events: disaster"
Webster's New World Dictionary
Strange how we define that word.
What it means and what it is used for....
It's first definition is Greek Play.
Billions of dollars are now pouring into the Indian Ocean to help repair the destruction wrought by a natural event in our planet's growing pains.
Would we care had it not been broadcast via web and televion?
Personally I was in bed having sex the night it happened. Sex while others died.
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Billions of dollars are now flowing into the Indian Ocean at this moment.
The entire world is sending aid.
It's a tragedy.
Hundreds of thousands have died.
More will die in the aftermath.
When the world raises up and swallows you up.
Maybe it was the idea of sandy beaches and blue lagoons...
Maybe it was the concern of growing Terror cells in the impacted countries.
Maybe compassion, maybe fear that this could happen to us, that the world could snatch us away...
What ever the reason, our wallets and bank accounts have openned to help the helpless.
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But why is it not a tragedy when someone takes a club, or spear, or gun, and takes a life, a home, a family?
Knocks it down to the ground, leaves me with out food to eat, nor clothes to wear.
Why is it okay to look the other way, or to even look at it, shrug our shoulders and change the channel when the victim is an African?
Why is it okay to let them die of horrible means?
Preventable deaths.
Where is the out pouring of monies and aid for those suffering from diseases?
Why is it permissible to let one group knock the other over the head, kill their men and boys only to leave the bones for the sun to bake?
Why is it okay to look the other way, or even to look at it, shrug our shoulders and change the channel when the victim is a Slav?
War raged less than 100 miles from where I stayed in Italy in the early ninties, and where was the money? The aid? The means to protect these victims?
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It is easier to give money, sit back and let someone else do the work.
It is easier to give money, than put your own in harms way.
Why is it that if they are poor and black and African, then we don't care?
Why is it that if they are poor and Muslim, then we don't care?
Could it be those sandy beaches?
Webster's New World Dictionary
Strange how we define that word.
What it means and what it is used for....
It's first definition is Greek Play.
Billions of dollars are now pouring into the Indian Ocean to help repair the destruction wrought by a natural event in our planet's growing pains.
Would we care had it not been broadcast via web and televion?
Personally I was in bed having sex the night it happened. Sex while others died.
***************
Billions of dollars are now flowing into the Indian Ocean at this moment.
The entire world is sending aid.
It's a tragedy.
Hundreds of thousands have died.
More will die in the aftermath.
When the world raises up and swallows you up.
Maybe it was the idea of sandy beaches and blue lagoons...
Maybe it was the concern of growing Terror cells in the impacted countries.
Maybe compassion, maybe fear that this could happen to us, that the world could snatch us away...
What ever the reason, our wallets and bank accounts have openned to help the helpless.
*****************
But why is it not a tragedy when someone takes a club, or spear, or gun, and takes a life, a home, a family?
Knocks it down to the ground, leaves me with out food to eat, nor clothes to wear.
Why is it okay to look the other way, or to even look at it, shrug our shoulders and change the channel when the victim is an African?
Why is it okay to let them die of horrible means?
Preventable deaths.
Where is the out pouring of monies and aid for those suffering from diseases?
Why is it permissible to let one group knock the other over the head, kill their men and boys only to leave the bones for the sun to bake?
Why is it okay to look the other way, or even to look at it, shrug our shoulders and change the channel when the victim is a Slav?
War raged less than 100 miles from where I stayed in Italy in the early ninties, and where was the money? The aid? The means to protect these victims?
******************
It is easier to give money, sit back and let someone else do the work.
It is easier to give money, than put your own in harms way.
Why is it that if they are poor and black and African, then we don't care?
Why is it that if they are poor and Muslim, then we don't care?
Could it be those sandy beaches?
posted by karlthebunny at 11:21 AM
1 Comments:
i wonder the same thing everyday...and i feel so incapable and powerless...
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