![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Sep. 1st, 2005 11:15 amMost of the people that I read on LJ have had, if anything, a similar reaction to the aftermath of the hurricane - in a nutshell, "Oh shit" and "What can I do?"
Then there are some others who maintain a smug detatchedness. Which is fine. Different strokes for different cold, unfeeling bastards.
Maybe it's just because I'm a little older; maybe I'm becoming softer. I don't know. Contrary to my avowed misanthropy, I can't help but to be affected by what I see and what I read.
There's nothing in recent American history to compare this event to. But worldwide, disasters, natural and otherwise, happen. Large numbers of people have been displaced with nowhere to go - Southeast Asia, Niger, Sudan. We are not unique snowflakes. Does that mean we should not afford our sympathies and our abilities to help? Absolutely not. Rather, we should just try to mind people, wherever there is need. Do what we can, where we can and when we can. Pick your battles, sure. But don't point and laugh.
</rant>
Then there are some others who maintain a smug detatchedness. Which is fine. Different strokes for different cold, unfeeling bastards.
Maybe it's just because I'm a little older; maybe I'm becoming softer. I don't know. Contrary to my avowed misanthropy, I can't help but to be affected by what I see and what I read.
There's nothing in recent American history to compare this event to. But worldwide, disasters, natural and otherwise, happen. Large numbers of people have been displaced with nowhere to go - Southeast Asia, Niger, Sudan. We are not unique snowflakes. Does that mean we should not afford our sympathies and our abilities to help? Absolutely not. Rather, we should just try to mind people, wherever there is need. Do what we can, where we can and when we can. Pick your battles, sure. But don't point and laugh.
</rant>
