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January 08, 2005
Yippee, disaster month...
Well, it is hard escaping tsunami's these days. If you were on some beach in Thailand on December 26 you had a problem. If you stayed at home in Western Europe, North-America and Australia and want to be in a state of oblivion about this disaster you also have a problem.
Don't understand me wrong: I do care for all victims of this catastrophe.
But I have started becoming weary of all actions being taken to help Southeast Asia. It is over the top, since there are many more disasters not taken care for. Diseases like AIDS in Africa, hunger in Africa, Genocide victims like those in Rwanda 10 years ago or Darfur right now.
Although I feel sympathy for the benefit concert by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw yesterday, I wonder where all those fine musicians were and are for all the other disasters in the world.
It seems that people and organizations are happily toppling over each other to prove how socially engaged they are and actually enjoy the current opportunity to show off.
Not that the victims care, by the way. Money is money, whatever the reason was to donate it.
Posted by Renske at 16:16 UTC | permanent link