The girls at work and I were discussing the tsunami last night. Just like after 9/11 there is a world wide awareness and empathy with the victims. It is so good to know that when catastrophy like this happens that we can reach out as a world wide community to offer help. But it also brought up the discussion of how we are swayed by the media, even manipulated. There has been mass murder in parts of Sudan, going on for months. We don't know about it because of a block on media exposure. We don't get involved because the country has no value to us. (eg. oil) The last numbers I heard was 50,000 killed. Isn't it interesting that although this is happening and has been for a while we take no action to prevent it. When God calls us to respond does He use the media? Or do we use the media to see where God calls us?
Maybe we need to be more aware of what is happening in other parts of the world each and every day. The things that we are not seeing on the news. Just some thoughts. what do you think?
3 comments:
yup - we definitely need to be more aware of what is going on in the world - a wider world view.
The media is in business to sell. So they will give us whatever we want.
If we want to know about celebrities sleeping around, getting married, gatting divorced, getting fat, getting anorexic, getting naked, getting millions... they will give us that.
If we want to know how our fellow planet-dwellers are doing, so we can be actitive and mobilized and looking after each other... they will give us that.
The choice has always been ours.
living 25 kms from the nicaraguan border i am told that there is no food in nicaragua, there is no water in nicaragua, there is no land good for agriculture in nicaragua, there are no jobs. why? i was told because it is a nation without God. i was told that nicaraguans come to costa rica because they are hungry, for food, for jobs. they are used to war and violence and hunger. i was told they bring their violence with them so they are not wanted here. if it is a nation without God how do we show God to them if we discriminate against them. if one culture discriminates against another is that not racism?
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