That the wrong usually far outweighs the right. There are way more people starving than living in luxury. I will agree however that the news reports mainly about the bad and rarely the good but there's little interest in the noble deeds of individuals when their governments systematically and habitually commit heinous crimes.
There's plenty of examples of Israeli "knights" that go around standing in the way of Israeli bulldozers and helping the oppressed. I too think these people should be given more of a voice in the Arab & muslim press, and more money should be given to them because they are in a position to change things, rather than idiots that blow themselves up in supermarkets. Revenge achieves nothing. I read an article about one such gentleman on the front page of a western paper when I was flying in here. I rarely ever see anything about that on Al-Jazeera. Indeed, Israeli and Palestinian kids in the same classroom would be non-news if it wasn't for the context of violence and hatred. Because of the contextual background we are aware of, that would be a picture of profound beauty...
Someone brought up that the list is biased and excludes many other conflicts and images of suffering, but these are the emblematic ones, they artistically embody the harshest of our reality, and summarize our achievements since the advent of photography. Furthermore shock is always more profound than beauty. You sometimes have to meditate on the beauty of things. Shock is immediate. Also, fear is stronger than any love or hate.
Indeed, from only a mile above, this looks like a rock teeming with ants entangled in vile chaos. Things that seem majestic to us are "close to nil" on a cosmic scale. But we don't live in space. After all, this sad blue rock is all we've got.
That the wrong usually far outweighs the right. There are way more people starving than living in luxury. I will agree however that the news reports mainly about the bad and rarely the good but there's little interest in the noble deeds of individuals when their governments systematically and habitually commit heinous crimes.
There's plenty of examples of Israeli "knights" that go around standing in the way of Israeli bulldozers and helping the oppressed. I too think these people should be given more of a voice in the Arab & muslim press, and more money should be given to them because they are in a position to change things, rather than idiots that blow themselves up in supermarkets. Revenge achieves nothing. I read an article about one such gentleman on the front page of a western paper when I was flying in here. I rarely ever see anything about that on Al-Jazeera. Indeed, Israeli and Palestinian kids in the same classroom would be non-news if it wasn't for the context of violence and hatred. Because of the contextual background we are aware of, that would be a picture of profound beauty...
Someone brought up that the list is biased and excludes many other conflicts and images of suffering, but these are the emblematic ones, they artistically embody the harshest of our reality, and summarize our achievements since the advent of photography. Furthermore shock is always more profound than beauty. You sometimes have to meditate on the beauty of things. Shock is immediate. Also, fear is stronger than any love or hate.
Indeed, from only a mile above, this looks like a rock teeming with ants entangled in vile chaos. Things that seem majestic to us are "close to nil" on a cosmic scale. But we don't live in space. After all, this sad blue rock is all we've got.