I'd been feeling rather guilty for a while now since, when I left
It's pretty horrible. As Elvis Costello would say, "What's so funny 'bout peace, love & understanding?" Maybe we need to glorify peacemakers beyond Nobel prizes,etc.
Here are the lyrics to Costello's song, thought I'd share them w/y'all:
The media`s motto is:
I heard the media's message is "If it bleeds, it leads." Same thing though, right? I have to say though, I'm not sure the media only reports on gruesome things. How many days was the Northern Ireland peace accord on the front page? Or, I'm not sure how many people know about this but in Ontario and Quebec there was a terrible ice storm this year. Lots of people lost their power so it was really bad. I saw many newspaper stories about those who donated batteries and candles and stuff like that to help. I think if you don't like what the media talks about, write to them when they do positive stories and say you wish they would do it more often. Just a thought.
for college, I'd totally lost track of the news, world and local.
Well, I got back home and thought I'd start watching the news
again. I remember now why I so rarely did watch it, even
before college.
Sick. It makes me SICK. Killing-hate-war-injustice- I cant
stand it! Is violence the only way the world knows to
ACTUALLY get things solved ? (obviously words dont cut it...
how many mideast peace talks have there been?)
How is it that we came to be so hate-filled?
I watch the news these days and I cry. Children killing, new
wars heating up, more powers with more deadly weapons, and
of course, let's not forget a president condoning one of the
"better displays of human nature" by visiting a site so
desecrated with blood! (sarcasm dripping into buckets)
Forget telling stories of joy or anything. OUR media only
works if it shows death, destruction, suffering, pain. our world
is so twisted no film has any hope of success unless somebody
doesnt at LEAST slap someone else! What kind of a perverse
world is this that ENJOYS yes *ENJOYS* watching the
suffering and pain of others?
People blame human nature but I refuse to believe that. I cant
buy that deep down we all lust to see our fellow humans die. I
cant buy that we long to hear of men and women tormented,
dragged behind a truck for example. I refuse to believe that we
are like that!
So much, so much of what we make these days is designed to
hurt. Warships, nukes, bombs, guns, martial arts, mace- I just...
If there is that much bloodlust in us, then we are less than
animals. Rulers of the earth we are not, much less "the chosen"
race. For NO superior being ould look at what we have
become and smile happily.
Why must a difference in looks be so threatening that hate is
born? WHy, when no biological reason supports it, must we
insist on prejudices against one "race" or another? Why is it that
no one believes anymore in the power of words? Why is
violence the ONLY way people can think of to solve
problems? Cant they see that when they hurt another they
actually hurt themselves even more?
Just think. We dont even know how many people have been
killed in wars since the beginning of the century. We DONT
KNOW how many lives have been taken!! Every one of them
deserved to be mourned yet society cant even be bothered
with finding out how many died! Where is our humanity? That
which makes us "above"?
The more and more I think about it, the more it hurts deep
down inside. And the more I think what Leeloo in "The 5th
Element" said was right.
"Why protect life when you see what you do with it"
By Lee on Wednesday, June 17, 1998 - 10:04 pm:
By Lee on Thursday, June 18, 1998 - 11:32 pm:
as I walk through this wicked world
searching for light in the darkness of insanity
I ask myself, "is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?"
And each time I feel like this inside
there's one thing I want to know
what's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
Oh, what's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
And as I walk on through troubled times
my spirit gets so down-hearted sometimes
so where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is that harmony? (Sweet harmony)
'cause each time I feel it slipping away
just makes me want to cry
what's so funny bout peace, love and understanding?
Oh, what's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is that harmony? Sweet harmony
'cause each time I feel it slipping away
just makes me want to cry
what's so funny bout peace, love and understanding?
Oh, what's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
Oh, what's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
By Anonymous on Friday, June 19, 1998 - 10:13 am:
good news, is no news.
Things that shock us are the type of things the media look for, to make the front page or the evening news. Its sad I know.
War is something I dont think I`ll ever understand, but hatred seems to dominate in many contries.
Hopefully, the future is a better place for us all.
By Laurel on Saturday, June 20, 1998 - 02:27 pm: