A chara, – The cost of meeting the UN’s agreed target to aid the Flood disaster in Pakistan is in the hundreds of millions. So far this figure has only been half-way met.
Yet the cost of bailing out our dysfunctional banks shifts daily like an eroding shore line. It climbs in perverse billions by the month, each day we are told by increasingly gormless commentators that it may cost even more.
Am I alone in finding these seemingly unrelated stories unbearable? The richest in the world must have their bags and modus operandi lined, in order to “function” again, while the poorest and most vulnerable in the world are yet again strewn aside by nature and global economics, left to the whims of Western charity and the ever-decreasing attention spans of the consumers of Western media.
It is time for a profound change. We must learn to feel again and radically realign our priorities. – Is mise,