Well said. We've all, the whole lot of humanity, been de-sensitized beyond belief. I think that is an important part of why many "look away". But then there is the aspect of those that look but don't see ... we look not just with our eyes or our rationality but also with our deep connection to life itself. But so few do this, see there for the sake of chance, go I. Another problem is how our media sanitizes what we see. I've tried to use the infamous image from Wikileaks of young American drone operators killing innocent Iraqis on the street, straffing them with machine gun fire. No social media organization will allow me to use it, even in a poem, as part of a work of art. I go against "community standards" yet, our youth play and kill in the same fashion, in single shooter games daily. The world I profess, is upside down. One sided (single) horror. Never the other side.
Thanks, David. I too have noticed a media bias, squashing or short-shrifting some negative stories about the Israelis. Atrocities have occurred on both sides, but nothing that matches the breadth of savagery seen in the Oct 6 attack.
Well said. We've all, the whole lot of humanity, been de-sensitized beyond belief. I think that is an important part of why many "look away". But then there is the aspect of those that look but don't see ... we look not just with our eyes or our rationality but also with our deep connection to life itself. But so few do this, see there for the sake of chance, go I. Another problem is how our media sanitizes what we see. I've tried to use the infamous image from Wikileaks of young American drone operators killing innocent Iraqis on the street, straffing them with machine gun fire. No social media organization will allow me to use it, even in a poem, as part of a work of art. I go against "community standards" yet, our youth play and kill in the same fashion, in single shooter games daily. The world I profess, is upside down. One sided (single) horror. Never the other side.
Thanks, David. I too have noticed a media bias, squashing or short-shrifting some negative stories about the Israelis. Atrocities have occurred on both sides, but nothing that matches the breadth of savagery seen in the Oct 6 attack.