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Tuesday, August 16
food for thought.
you know,
the perverse inclination of humankind toward all things involving death and destruction is somewhat disturbing. don't pretend you don't find it a little thrilling to think of London subways being blasted. right out of a Hollywood movie script, albeit without the glamour. gruesome yet intruiging, no? people can't help but stop and stare at car accidents - we wince, but therein lies some emotion of excitement, even pleasure. to most, 100,000 post-tsunami death rate is just an apallingly large figure to exclaim over, but how many realise that could equate to the deaths of all their 103,945 third-degree friends on friendster? death by bombings has become so inevitable in the Middle East, that victims have been reduced to mere numbers, and we hardly spare a thought for the actual lives that have passed. what a state we're in. all the misfortunes in life; the robberies, the deaths, the tsunamis, the accidents, the bombings, the crashes - all serve us a form of covert entertainment. as long as they don't happen to us. what a world, what a world.