Indication that there might be a problem

Indication that there might be a problem
Sunday, June 17, 2007

Something has gone horribly wrong with your society when starving children are cliche.

It's one thing to become saddened that you can't save them and do nothing.

It's another to not even think they matter.

The first means your apathetic.

The second signals that you're not actually human but instead an unthinking robot made of flesh.

A part of the problem is the overwrought sentimentality of the commercials begging you to send money to help feed starving children. it hides the actual emotions under a blanket of crappy manipulation.

The suffering of others isn't a proper outlet to relieve guilt. That makes them inhuman to the giver. A bottomless money hole which the un-selfless giver will more than likely resent in the near future.

Technology may hold solutions. But it won't matter if we can't figure out how to actually care for those who need it. Look at AIDS medication. We have the ability to help but the holders of the technology don't care enough to help by lowering the medications down to approximately what it costs the drug makers to produce it.

As if they were ever going to profit from a Somalian that makes 3 dollars a week.