Our Sad World

As I browsed BBC today, checking the headlines from top to bottom--Africa to the UK-- I couldn't be more disheartened. The instability in Africa, the wars in the middle east, the financial struggle that has spread everywhere,---it's all madness. Ha except maybe in Switzerland, I haven't seen anything in headlines about them. What is even sadder is that there aren't any corresponding headlines of protests, change, progress from our youth, our big business', etc--where are the voices of the worlds people? There are two primary reasons for this absence: a lack of reporting on the medias part or the lack of particpation in world affairs by the citizens of the world. My guess is that its both.

The thing that I fear about America is now that Obama, who's probably the worlds symbol of hope, and one of our country's greatest achievement in the last 8 years, has been elected into office, the great voting citizens probably think their work is done. But their presence at the polls are not enough. Our world is at it's knees, Atlas cannot bear it without us to help.

I know I don't want the first thing on the headlines is war in the next ten years.

Enough said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/