Dont Look at me... http://www.dont-look.com/myblog Like other people look at you. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:27:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en Pakistan in the news? http://www.dont-look.com/myblog/?p=116 http://www.dont-look.com/myblog/?p=116#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:27:40 +0000 admin http://www.dont-look.com/myblog/?p=116 As the number of Pakistani people affected by the flooding now reaches over 13 million people, I have to ask, “Why am I not seeing this in-my-face every 10 seconds?”  Thirteen million people suffering and/or displaced by weeks of massive flooding that seemed to stretch over the entire country, yet you hear very little on the news.   This is 2 million more people affected than in the 2004 Tsunami, the 2005 earthquake in India, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, COMBINED!    And this isn’t headlining every night?   It made me wonder why this was?   Why wasn’t there a huge humanitarian uprising?   Where is Demi Moore?   Where is super duo Pitt-Jolie?   Where is Opra?   Where is Sean Penn?   Oh actually he’s still digging in the mud in Haiti, so he gets a pass.   But where are the donation text message numbers?    Where are all the Red Cross ads?   Am I missing something?

   Then it occurred to me, there was something I was missing.    Attitude.    Our current attitude towards Pakistan is less than favorable.    And it’s not just Pakistan, it’s the entire Middle East, that we are simply fed up with.    We as a country no longer care who lives, who dies, or who suffers, in that entire region.   Nope, we’ve written it completely off.   The more I thought about it, the more I knew I was right.   There’s no media coverage coming out of there anymore.   People don’t want to know that our troops are STILL dying over there.   People don’t care if the Iraqi population falls into turmoil or if the Afghans are plagued with corruption.   And people don’t care if Pakistan drowns under 15 feet of mud.   At this point we see everyone from that region as animals, unworthy of our aide.   I mean we’ve got our own problems, and at the moment Pakistan is a major contributor to those problems.   Right?   No, wrong.    It’s not the people of Pakistan that are the problem.   It’s the puppet governments we put into place in these areas that later give us problems, not the overall population.

   So, why the media blackout?   Well, simply put, the news corporations in this country want to make money.   They have their finger on the pulse of popular opinion (or dare I say, they control the pulse of popular opinion), and they know that right now, people in this country want the vilification of all things “Middle Eastern”.   So, showing them as victims just isn’t going to sell ads.   Or maybe it’s the Bio Research Team from ______*, that would like to keep things on the down-low.   Test subjects galore!!!  Wooo Hoooo!!!  Yeah, I’m sure they’re there to “help”…   lol.

 

*I’ve refrained from naming them as it is an unverified rumor.   Not that the rest of this stuff isn’t conjecture on my part, but that one is iffy at best.

 

Side NOTE:   To the middle aged lady texting in her giant SUV at 70mph…   You almost became the proud owner of a dead motorcyclist.  BITCH!   This lady didn’t even have the decency to stop texting when I pulled up next to her to see what kind of moron was in the vehicle.   Clueless, she didn’t even know that the motorcyclist was so shaken up he had to pull off the road.   Probably to clean himself.    People, merging into high speed traffic on 528, is not a proper place to be texting your F’ing peeps!!!

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