The Real Thing

[mamculuna]

I was thinking about the differences in how we perceive natural disasters as opposed to man-made ones. A terrorist act like 9/11, etc., is set up for maximum public exposure--the images that appear on TV and online all over the world are the real point. Since we get those images so clearly and so immediately, the event seems real to us. But the natural disasters aren't set up that way. The news leaks out, a little at a time. No one was filming the waves that hit during the Tsunami, and only now are we beginning to get some visual images that make it seem real to us.

But it is real. This is a site about one refugee camp before the disaster and the people who lived there. It makes it real to me:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ceret/52383.html

Comments

Re: Sidebar: de-friending

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for being clear on this ... turns out there's a reason for my silence: I had created a new Friends Filter but hadn't Modified your Friend settings, so you dropped off my radar!

Re: Sidebar: de-friending

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

No call to comment on every post--just limiting myself to conversations vs. feeds. Glad you're ok--if you are--at least you're dry and warm, I hope, for the New Year.

Re: Sidebar: de-friending

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

Dry and warm?
It's freezing cold out, and I'm in a room that is neither drafty nor mouldy, so it's all good!
:-)