My heart goes out to London
7 July 2005 London bombings - Wikipedia. I awoke to another symptom of our little world's illness. My first thought was to my friends (all safe and well) in London. My second thought was to us, as a human race, to try and figure out how to get back on a track where we don't have to resort to treating each other in ways that provokes such acts of violence. How do we learn other ways?
Watching the reactions on the net:
Mitch Ratcliff
Flickr Bomb Group
Technorati LondonBomb Tag
Juan Cole
And yet, I think of all the countless who died quietly today, of hunger, disease or other quotidian causes. Do we mourn for them?
posted by Nancy White at 1:27 PM
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>>And yet, I think of all the countless who died quietly today, of hunger, disease or other quotidian causes. Do we mourn for them?
Just a question - would you have been brave enough to express this kind of sentiment immediately post 9/11? I doubt it. And the UK has a long history of picking them selves up and getting aon with it after this kind of disaster - remember the Blitz? The IRA?
PeteM
Pete, a good question. I don't have 100% memory of my comments after 9/11, but not too long after it I was questioning how we prioritize our attention. So this is not a new theme for me. But you raise a fair question.
As for getting on with it, I agree, the British have always picked up and got on. I think we Americans have far less practice. So we react in a different way as a nation. Yet within the nation, there is also a range of reaction.
I think I am one of the people who needs to think more about those who die daily and who we do not mourn. I'm not sure how to do it. But I recognize that it is easy to prioritize lives based on what we see and are familiar with.
Thanks for asking me a question which has me thinking more deeply.
I pass through Liverpool Street Station every day and on Thursday missed the bomb by over half an hour. Within 24 hours I'd published a blog entry explaining my opinion on why London is a Target and calling for British troops to be withdrawn from Iraq.
The comments there are quite something.
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http://london.metblogs.com/archives/2005/07/why_london_is_a.phtml
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