People talk about how great the information age is. I don't know if that is true. I'm sitting here and watching the news and all I am hearing about bad news. A ferry sinks and 1300 are dead or fighting not to drown.. last year it was a couple of cyclones and a earthquake... the year before it was a killer wave...
We no longer have to wait for the information to follow more traditional paths. We hear and sometimes see a disaster as it unfolds.
I know that information is free, and now it can flow easily. I just don't know if is a good thing. I don't need to see people falling from buildings as they collapse. I don't need to see waves sweep people under and never to resurface.
It's almost like reality tv, the only problem is that the people being put on tv have not volunteered. I know that there is a lot of suffering in this world. I know that people are eachothers worse enemy, I know that people are the enemy of mother nature and mother nature is the enemy of people.
I also know that war is the greater killer of people. I don't need to see that but I fear that it will be the next thing that will be beamed into my home when I am least expecting it.
I don't want to live in a bubble. I don't expect the world to be full of sunshine and success. I also don't want the horrors of the world rubbed in my face. There is nothing that I can do about these things. I can donate money to help out people, and then later be told that 1.32% of my donation made a difference, the rest was consumed be costs and payments and things that will never be explained.
I'm not crying helpless and I don't wish to be ignorant. There are just some things that I don't need to know.