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World
This word is appropriate this week and in light of the disaster in Japan. The world has become an increasingly small place since I was small. I remember when my whole world was within 5 miles of my house. Today, my best friends live halfway around the world and over halfway across the country.
We have learned that the actions of one touch everyone but I am still not sure we are ready to act that way, to take responsibility for our brothers in the world. We are still made up of countries and races and socio-economic groups who seem at cross purposes with one another more often than not.
And a little food for thought from George Orwell:
"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 10
This word is appropriate this week and in light of the disaster in Japan. The world has become an increasingly small place since I was small. I remember when my whole world was within 5 miles of my house. Today, my best friends live halfway around the world and over halfway across the country.
We have learned that the actions of one touch everyone but I am still not sure we are ready to act that way, to take responsibility for our brothers in the world. We are still made up of countries and races and socio-economic groups who seem at cross purposes with one another more often than not.
And a little food for thought from George Orwell:
"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 10