Subject to change is a huge understatement, scientists conclude
How many of us consider ourselves unpaid journalists? With the age of surveillance quickly fading behind us as a small societal Age of Forced Nodding, not as important as the Enlightenment and perhaps as unimportant as the Cyber Bubble Bust, I began hypothesizing on the next event that will start short ripples across the globe. I wonder if anyone else wants to investigate why major anthropological events can't seem to gain traction any more, and I predict that they never will. Until something actually life-changing occurs, of course. In the meantime, I can't ignore how everyday people are beginning to ask themselves and each other, ourselves, why no one cares about stuff like Hurricane Katrina, the Japan tsunami, or any of the shootings that have occurred in the past decade. Why don't any of the angry, grieving, or trauma-inflicted mothers of the plethora of victims around the entire planet stand up and take a stand against the machine that has made war into an industry, or demand that patriarchy in politics, education, and religion be subject to investigation, put on trial* and subsequently legally banned. Like torture, it should become a moral requirement.
*The precedent was set, in my mind, when corporations became eligible for persecution, with the idea that consequences stemming from underlying larger manifestations, even when wielded independently from the rest of the whole, sometimes can't truly be any one individual's responsibility
*The precedent was set, in my mind, when corporations became eligible for persecution, with the idea that consequences stemming from underlying larger manifestations, even when wielded independently from the rest of the whole, sometimes can't truly be any one individual's responsibility