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I don't know if it's me but as time goes on re the chaos in the Middle East and it now seemingly spilling into Africa but there seems to be an inordinate amount of death and destruction being reported these days and with each incident the numbers slaughtered seem
also to be on the increase...but equally I'm ashamed to say so does my shock levels, I read 30+ people killed in a bomb attack on a Baghdad 0r 60+ people at the shopping mall in Kenya wiped out or ten people in Mexico beheaded and I hardly pay the reports a second thought, swiftly moving on to the next news article...
Has life really become that cheap? Although I cannot change much of anything re what goes on the world I really should be giving more than a passing thought to these people losing their lives in such dismal and dire circumstances....
Loss of life is regrettable in any circumstance, I don't want the media and their thirst to bring me a picture of a young child's guts splattered across a pavement and because it's an almost daily recurrence that I become or have become so desensitized to it all that I skip merrily on reading the various headlines.
I want to be shocked/outraged at loss of life, I want to be upset/angry at the cruelty going on in the world and I want my children growing up knowing that life is precious and to be cherished.
So for my part and from today onwards I will no longer read the News Headlines, no longer listen to it on the Radio/TV and will block news channels from my various devices. Yeah sure I'll miss out on topical conversation and of course i'll become a bit dumb (no change there then hey) when it comes to world affairs, but sos, life is most certainly not cheap and I want it to mean something to me.
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I really don't know what to say Toots.
Life is really a crock of shit for so many people at the moment and, like with a troubled child, if you feed the terror you can only expect to get more of it.
Take Syria as a case in point. Without the west intervening in something they really have little understanding of, the so called opposition forces would have nothing to feed on perhaps and people might not die. If that is true, then the western press is as much to blame for the loss of life because they feed the terror. I really don't put Assad - an intelligent man, not a warlord - as a mass murderer content to use toxic weapons on his own people but I do think that is perfectly feasible at the hands of the evil factions that abound in the region funded and supported by corrupt western interests like the CIA with its own agenda.
Pakistan; Christians slaughtered by their fellow countrymen/women in a meaningless (to us) suicide bomb attack where peaceful people gather to worship. Horrendous and incomprehensible even for an agnostic like me.
The list can go on but decent society needs decent people like you to continue to express their horror at such outrages without feeding the troll and to implore those charged in our society with our interests not to equal the terror by warmongering to suit their own political ends.
It won't go away if you just bury your head in the sand.
Life is really a crock of shit for so many people at the moment and, like with a troubled child, if you feed the terror you can only expect to get more of it.
Take Syria as a case in point. Without the west intervening in something they really have little understanding of, the so called opposition forces would have nothing to feed on perhaps and people might not die. If that is true, then the western press is as much to blame for the loss of life because they feed the terror. I really don't put Assad - an intelligent man, not a warlord - as a mass murderer content to use toxic weapons on his own people but I do think that is perfectly feasible at the hands of the evil factions that abound in the region funded and supported by corrupt western interests like the CIA with its own agenda.
Pakistan; Christians slaughtered by their fellow countrymen/women in a meaningless (to us) suicide bomb attack where peaceful people gather to worship. Horrendous and incomprehensible even for an agnostic like me.
The list can go on but decent society needs decent people like you to continue to express their horror at such outrages without feeding the troll and to implore those charged in our society with our interests not to equal the terror by warmongering to suit their own political ends.
It won't go away if you just bury your head in the sand.
Sexpert
In recent history ;- Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, the Balkans.
Factions fighting largely innocent people with the sole aim of eliminating all opposition to there view.
Thankfully we live in a (now) peaceful corner of the world but our own history is full of similar events. I don't think I will ever become de-sensitised to the horrendous events that humanity seems to inflict with ease on it's own kind. Maybe it is within us all to undertake such repulsive acts?
I would not block it out of my life though! If we are also capable of great acts of kindness then we may have to help those who have been effected with shelter and medicines. Every innocent life that is taken has a knock on effect to there loved ones. It may not be correct to say watch, listen and pray for them but to have them in our thoughts costs nothing.
Factions fighting largely innocent people with the sole aim of eliminating all opposition to there view.
Thankfully we live in a (now) peaceful corner of the world but our own history is full of similar events. I don't think I will ever become de-sensitised to the horrendous events that humanity seems to inflict with ease on it's own kind. Maybe it is within us all to undertake such repulsive acts?
I would not block it out of my life though! If we are also capable of great acts of kindness then we may have to help those who have been effected with shelter and medicines. Every innocent life that is taken has a knock on effect to there loved ones. It may not be correct to say watch, listen and pray for them but to have them in our thoughts costs nothing.
You're not alone Toots, we gave up watching the news a long time ago. Sounds an awful thing to say but we just got bored of it all. It was like watching all the constant Friends re-runs .... we knew what was going to happen before it even came on.
Yes, the deaths are senseless and needless tragedies the likes of which have been going on for decades if not centuries in one form or another. The only thing that's changed is our now constant access to the news which means events like these are brought to our attention more and more often.
Its like anything else in life - booze, drugs, caffeine, news ...... the more you have, the less of an effect it has
Yes, the deaths are senseless and needless tragedies the likes of which have been going on for decades if not centuries in one form or another. The only thing that's changed is our now constant access to the news which means events like these are brought to our attention more and more often.
Its like anything else in life - booze, drugs, caffeine, news ...... the more you have, the less of an effect it has
bad news, sensational news stories and anything to do with a celeb or wannabe makes the news, good news stories don't have a place these days. And correct that all these stories just desensitise the public. Us, we just want to know whats going on, good, bad or indifferent.
Perhaps if there were more good stories on the news the public might get a more bit more upbeat about life plus would take more interest in the atrocities going on around the world.
Perhaps if there were more good stories on the news the public might get a more bit more upbeat about life plus would take more interest in the atrocities going on around the world.
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bad news, sensational news stories and anything to do with a celeb or wannabe makes the news, good news stories don't have a place these days. And correct that all these stories just desensitise the public. Us, we just want to know whats going on, good, bad or indifferent.
Perhaps if there were more good stories on the news the public might get a more bit more upbeat about life plus would take more interest in the atrocities going on around the world.
I'm plenty upbeat about life, I have two gawjus daughters in mine, everyday with them in it is a day to be cherished, don't have time for depression or to be 'down' about anything.
There is always good news, it's often buried but it is there and sometimes it's just the smallest of things that can make my smile even wider than what it usually is.
Essenitally I'm fed up with death n destruction being posted/talked about/reported, I want happy stuff and happy people (ok, so it's a big ask..but I can want can't I?)
Wed 25th Sep was the first day I've not read a news feed or listened to the news of any description and by eck I haven't missed it a bit.
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There is always good news, it's often buried but it is there and sometimes it's just the smallest of things that can make my smile even wider than what it usually is.
And today I found some . . . Radio 4 own correspondent programme, interesting series of reports on everyday life from the BBC correspondents around the world including marriage issues in china (too many men, not enough women and then women only want the men with houses, cars etc) and beachcombers in the pacific (UK citizens that have ended up in thatched huts on the beach). No mention of wars, deaths etc (unless I am that desensitised that I tuned out for those bits).
Sex God
I reckon the past had far more massive death and destruction going on but of course communication not being what it is now people did not get to hear about it or if they did it would be some time after the event and that far away that in a massive world less consequential than in today's smaller globe.
We are flooded with tragedy from one minute to the next and in real time as it happens fashion nowadays. With this happening its no wonder we become desensitised. News is also rather cheap to broadcast lets face it news costs nothing to company's in its initial production and for the time it takes up especially on TV is far cheaper than producing decent stimulating programs with those things, what are they called, Oh yes actors in them. expensive little buggers they are.
Lets face it though whether for right or wrong we are more desensitised now about a lot of things for good or bad. Examples would be attitudes and the portrayal of sex or swearing or sexuality/gender issues race and colour religion. Where once these things would be discussed or talked about in vague skin deep terms now they are blood and bone in the public domain and consciousness. Shocking but maybe less shocking than it would of once been in times when such things were only whispered about.
Freely admit to finding i am really quite 'passe' about much that goes on unless it is on my doorstep but i think if i did think deeply on these issues and allowed myself time and effort in dwelling on them then the net result would be that I cried ....a lot.
We are flooded with tragedy from one minute to the next and in real time as it happens fashion nowadays. With this happening its no wonder we become desensitised. News is also rather cheap to broadcast lets face it news costs nothing to company's in its initial production and for the time it takes up especially on TV is far cheaper than producing decent stimulating programs with those things, what are they called, Oh yes actors in them. expensive little buggers they are.
Lets face it though whether for right or wrong we are more desensitised now about a lot of things for good or bad. Examples would be attitudes and the portrayal of sex or swearing or sexuality/gender issues race and colour religion. Where once these things would be discussed or talked about in vague skin deep terms now they are blood and bone in the public domain and consciousness. Shocking but maybe less shocking than it would of once been in times when such things were only whispered about.
Freely admit to finding i am really quite 'passe' about much that goes on unless it is on my doorstep but i think if i did think deeply on these issues and allowed myself time and effort in dwelling on them then the net result would be that I cried ....a lot.
