Thursday, June 07, 2007

Think. Know. Feel.

How many people would be alive if AIDS never came to Africa?
If Enola Gay had never taken off?
A number unimagineable in the minds of consumer based America.
So far removed from the pitfalls of humanity that we can judge ourselves better then the world.
What about the Kenyan boy, dying for lack of clean water.
Are we better then him?
The Ugandan child unwillingly drafted to take a machete and AK to destroy his own village.
Does Abercrombie make me a better person then him?
Can a book about abortion really make you understand how a young mother felt while she was being raped?
Do we want to know?
Can we take it?
Or does it upset our posh urban life too much?

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