My point:? What is it? I think I expressed it in the smoothest fashion
possible....(see line beginning with (Although I believe....)
The quality of the language used in the list posted (see list
below: "Relevant statistics") with its inventory of “none”. "none", "none"
(Pope message: none, etc) did not sound to my taste serious enough, but
rather as a disguised anti-American provocation.
I find objectable that the question of starvation is raise to prove the
responsibility of USA in the recent terrorist attack. I think that issues
of such severity do not deserve to be raised rhetorically.
Is this clear now, Mark?
I would want the certainty that those people using these kind of
statistics at this very moment are seriously involved in the task of
alleviating the painful realities of starvation: it is not difficult to
find employment in the Red Cross or in any organizations trying to help
saving these children: they make daily appeals for people to go and fight
on their side.
These statistic, if we really care, should be our DAILY preoccupation.
You cannot raise from the grave of forgetfulness those dead children when
it is convenient to strengthen one’s point on the otherwise blanc page.
Then, I call it the Easter flagellation, a symbolic act of reinforcing
the wrong order of things. Empty rhetoric.
Had one been honestly voted to solve the question of starvation, such
issues of world development and intercultural dialogue would have been
one’s daily practice, our jobs. But each of us, (with the due exception
of those of you who are reading and who are playing a part actively as
social workers, socialist activists and doctors in the Third World) in the
western world, is busy in solving one’s problem of making money and being
part of the capitalist system.
Unless, proved otherwise.
Therefore, the catalogue in question, “Relevant Statistics”, is to me a
mockery of any real concern.
Sorry.
I call it the call from the religious community to make the Parish Priest
buy stronger iron gates for the local Church once it has been robbed of
all its golden sacramental garments and furnishings.
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:22:11 -0700, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>What's your point? That it's foolish to care about them or that no one else
>does?
>
>Mark
>
>At 11:59 PM 9/25/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>>> According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),
>>about 35,615 children died from conditions of starvation on September 11,
>>2001
>>
>>RELEVANT STATISTICS:
>>
>>>* Victims: 35,615 children (source: FAO)
>>
>>>* Where: poor countries
>>
>>>* Special TV programs: none
>>
>>* Newspaper articles: none
>>
>>* Messages from the president: none
>>
>>* Solidarity acts: none
>>
>>* Minutes of silence: none
>>
>>* Victims mournings: none
>>
>>* Organized forums: none
>>
>>* Pope messages: none
>>
>>* Alert level: zero
>>
>>>* Military mobilization: none
>>
>>
>>The real Mystics.
>>
>>Ah, the self-flagellating Western consciousness....which we managed to
>>achieve through centuries of intestine wars and Papal interventions. We
>>too are ruled over by promises of future Paradises in our decision-
making,
>>our restrained actions.
>>
>>So we blame our own ancestors, our philosophy, our Economy, so we make a
>>systematic vivisection of our faults, we espose our sinnful chests, we
>>weep, feel self-repulsion, repent and flagellate our flesh to punish and
>>mortify our vicious mind.
>>
>>Although I believe we have not completely failed in making our communities
>>and single individuals sensible towards the Third World ‘s poverty, and
>>even if our children in school are thought these matters in full respect
>>of all the new humanitarian syllabuses, at present these statistics still
>>represent, in my knowledge, a concern of mainly social workers, socialist
>>activists and doctors.
>>
>> All those children dying of starvation have really almost nobody (a part
>>the Red Cross) fighting for them.
>>
>>
>>Erminia
>>
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