As one sees the various events unfurl across the world, the protests in Egypt, the civil war in Syria, the lost cause of Somalia one is asked to consider what can be done to bring the violence to an end. The United Nations utters platitudes, the powerful nations look to the future and the advantage that can be gained by supporting one side or the other, and there is much whimpering from nations that have no influence.
In years gone bye the violence would have been enacted out of sight and only after weeks or months, would carefully scripted texts be drafted through diplomatic channels onto the worlds media which consisted of newspapers and little else. The turbulence we see on our screens today and the questions which pour forth into our consciousness were tidied away in a crafted sentence. Our opinions are now sought and in our living rooms we have to come to a view, who is right who is wrong.
Since we hold only a skimpy concept of the divisions which lead people to fight and die in front of us we tend to fall back on the default position - "all violence is wrong". Particularly in this country we have been weaned off any sort of instant reaction and must content ourselves with continually turning the other cheek, bottling our anger and hoping that the authorities will find a way to settle our ire. In our strongly feminised, feely society we abhorrer the quick lay it all out with an old fashioned punch up and prefer to ingest the damage to our ego with a glare and maybe a lawsuit. How much pent up indignation lies in our traumatised society where language and opinion has been curtailed and we continually dance on the head of a pin to avoid stepping outside our controlled, politically correct society. The intense contra opinion of warring groups is at another level but it all illustrates the fine line that humans can be marched towards, when suddenly, leadership looses control.
No comments:
Post a Comment