Criminal
12-06-2002, 05:18 AM
On July 4th 1776 King George III wrote in his diary "Nothing of any importance happened today". It was the only entry for that date.
In the 18th century, of course there were no satillites of course. Communications all the same it does bring up something I often though about.
I often think that things of great importance do happen constantly. If a person happens to be out camping in the woods for a few days and something of importance like the terrorist attack on the World Trade Towers occurs, what would that person's reaction be when they return to civilization.
Right now as I am pecking away at my puter, what great events may be happening.
Communications have shrunk the world. It is true. We can send emails that are read around the world. Communications travel as fast as electrical currents and radio transmissions can carry them.
What is troubling though, how much can we really know. For example in far off places like Afghanistan and Palestine people die daily. In the movie "Boys in the Hood", Ice Cube made a remarkable observation when he said this about his brother's death
"I was watching the news on TV. They had wars going on everywhere. They were showing people dying everywhere. They did not say anything about my brother. Not a word".
Its like some things happen so much they are just taken for granted. People in the cities of the US are murdered and killed. Their lives are just statistics to the media.
How many times can we look beyond the statistics. How often can we read who the victims were. Not just that they were White Females or Black Males. Not that they were 17, 25 80 or 12 years of age. Do we know if the kid who was killed by a hit and run driver had ambitions to be a president of the US. Do we know if the 80 year old man was a veterin of a major war who risked his life to save the lives of others. Do we know that the woman whose body was found floating in the river was a teacher whose life affected the future doctor who finds a cure for cancer?
On the planet today there are 6 Billion human beings. One single life is insignificant to someone looking at the whole. To the one life however their own life is the most important life of all.
In the 18th century, of course there were no satillites of course. Communications all the same it does bring up something I often though about.
I often think that things of great importance do happen constantly. If a person happens to be out camping in the woods for a few days and something of importance like the terrorist attack on the World Trade Towers occurs, what would that person's reaction be when they return to civilization.
Right now as I am pecking away at my puter, what great events may be happening.
Communications have shrunk the world. It is true. We can send emails that are read around the world. Communications travel as fast as electrical currents and radio transmissions can carry them.
What is troubling though, how much can we really know. For example in far off places like Afghanistan and Palestine people die daily. In the movie "Boys in the Hood", Ice Cube made a remarkable observation when he said this about his brother's death
"I was watching the news on TV. They had wars going on everywhere. They were showing people dying everywhere. They did not say anything about my brother. Not a word".
Its like some things happen so much they are just taken for granted. People in the cities of the US are murdered and killed. Their lives are just statistics to the media.
How many times can we look beyond the statistics. How often can we read who the victims were. Not just that they were White Females or Black Males. Not that they were 17, 25 80 or 12 years of age. Do we know if the kid who was killed by a hit and run driver had ambitions to be a president of the US. Do we know if the 80 year old man was a veterin of a major war who risked his life to save the lives of others. Do we know that the woman whose body was found floating in the river was a teacher whose life affected the future doctor who finds a cure for cancer?
On the planet today there are 6 Billion human beings. One single life is insignificant to someone looking at the whole. To the one life however their own life is the most important life of all.