I don't know if others have noticed that when Christmas nears, we seem to have a series of disasters, usually earthquakes, aeroplane crashes or killings. I looked at the Guardian website and beside the awful murder of Brianna Ghey, there was a shooting of 14 or more in Prague, the murder of a little boy in London, the continued genocide in Gaza, Russian atrocities in Ukraine, the earthquake in China and so on.
I am aware that good news doesn't sell and all this is probably just coincidence, that several murderous dictators, homicidal maniacs and tectonic plate movement all happen together. I am reminded that in this supposed period of peace on earth, and goodwill towards all men, no one told the humans about it and act of God - earthquakes, seem the Almighty wasn't in the loop either.
I rarely fail to be moved by the acts of compassion by my fellows or disgusted by the acts of cruelty, which seem to happen far more regularly. I see violence in the media seems to increase all the time and can only think some of it is due to overcrowding/overpopulation even rats get aggressive if cramped together.
Roll on the end of the world.
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Good news is seldom dramatic
Really good news are usually the result of processes involving long hard work. Apart from the major disasters of man induced industrial scale mass slaughter, what really gets me down is the recent reversals (or slowdowns) in reducing hunger, contagious illnesses, poverty ... Processes that kept me bouyed up when trying to counter my mother's stroke-induced depression and her despair at world news some years ago.
Yeah! Plus
A volcanic eruption in Iceland, bushfires in Western Australia, floods in North Queensland. And just to make it personal my best friend's wife died, age 58, from a severe cerebral hemorrhage. What are we celebrating for?
Still, I'm not in a hurry for the end of the world.