I have been struck with a sad truth over the past few days. Last night as David and I went to Wal*Mart I started to tell him about how the whole incident with Enterprise has been passed on. On Thursday when devastation hit Enterprise the news spread quickly, all over the nation, even some parts of the world (I heard it was in Australia). All day long CNN talked of nothing but of the tornado in Enterprise and somewhere else. It was huge. for like...that day.
I signed on to AOL and on the front headline was the news of Enterprise and the deaths. The next day (friday) the news was on to another subject, how Anna Nichole had a pink covering with gems and feathers on her casket.
When D and I were talking he said he realized the same thing, how when something bad happens to an area, peoples first thought is "how does this effect me". when we are out of harms way, it is easy to pass by those who aren't. With 9/11 came a rush of patriotism, people grieved, and people began to state things like "God bless America!" and put little American flags all over the place. but you know what? within a month or so, even that died down. those of us who didn't suffer an immediate loss (such as losing a family member) picked up with life right where we left off, and didn't look back. Our culture is a sad one.
Where is compassion?
Our culture craves bad news, some news place somewhere once tried to make a newspaper of nothing but good news, it didn't sell though.
It's crazy.
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sensation. we want sensation.
everything else is subscript on the page.
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