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Same problem. What's the point of discussing arrests when we don't have a police force willing to do it?
Here's what's funny. A multibillionaire could probably hire it done--yet there would be an incredible outcry that he or she hired....gasp...mercenaries! (Probably Western ones, worse still!) There would be a greater outcry about that than about Darfur's horrors to begin with. That is why I despair of the collective good sense and good will of humanity. Woman combat-loads her womb with octuplets she's in no position to care for--month-long outcry. Thousands died in Darfur today--ho, hum. We are more interested in what Nancy Grace is carping about than in what is actually going on.
Same problem. What's the point of discussing arrests when we don't have a police force willing to do it?
Here's what's funny. A multibillionaire could probably hire it done--yet there would be an incredible outcry that he or she hired....gasp...mercenaries! (Probably Western ones, worse still!) There would be a greater outcry about that than about Darfur's horrors to begin with. That is why I despair of the collective good sense and good will of humanity. Woman combat-loads her womb with octuplets she's in no position to care for--month-long outcry. Thousands died in Darfur today--ho, hum. We are more interested in what Nancy Grace is carping about than in what is actually going on.
You have a good point about Darfur vs. Nancy Grace. Few people seem to care about Darfur. Honestly, I hardly keep up with the octuplet situation or Nancy Grace. There are more important things. Until human kind as a whole begins to get their priorities in line and start caring more, situations such as Darfur will keep happening.
It's part of the struggle that goes on each day: the struggle for mindshare. The world broadcasts vast amounts of information at us: advertising, news reports, political stuff, people's opinions. All of it says to us: "This is what you should care about right now!" The battle is to keep one's mind one's own by reserving exclusively to oneself the right to decide what one should care about. Many people simply concede the battle, and just care about what they are told they should care about.
It's not an easy fight. It's not enough to mute the TV; you also have to look away, because the ad people realize quite well that people mute commercials. It's not enough to rip the ad concentrations out of your magazines; if you read them while you rip, you actually made it worse. It's not enough to just throw away the junk mail; the idea is to identify it without perusing it. And with people all around you talking about the grand-scale insignificant human interest story of the day (school shooting, killer mom, celebrity meltdown, junkie jock, political flub), it's very difficult and comes off even brusque to say: "I don't have an opinion on it. It's not very important." But if you play along with it, you feed it.
Darfur simply loses those mindshare sweepstakes due to distance and tragedy overload. Same old genocide, ho hum. How sad. Is there any pasta left? That's what it comes down to.
In that case,the UN should go after every tyrans and despotes,especially the one close and protected by western powers,justice for all,yes,justice for the few,no
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