Saturday, July 15, 2006
once more, onto the brink
I'm trying to keep in mind that the media often seem to relish striking fear into listeners' and viewers' hearts. (Example: I was in China on business when La Scandale Monica broke and I saw Bernie Shaw look right into the camera and somberly, very slowly and seriously, say, "it's not clear whether the U.S. government will last the night". It seemed ridiculous, being a mere sex scandal and all (shows what I knew), and it seemed even more ridiculous that CNN writers understood so little about the U.S. government, namely that bringing it down, coup-like, would be pretty much impossible.) Yet here we are yet again. This time it's a(nother) Middle East crisis. How many of those in my lifetime so far? The Middle East sure does more than its share of striking fear in our hearts, doesn't it? Do you suppose all their mothers and fathers didn't pay enough attention when they were toddlers? That's an awful lot of absent-minded inattentive parents, but maybe that's it. So now all those people demand our attention and will keep on demanding it even if it kills every last one of all of us.
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