tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post2409199241768819315..comments2024-03-27T23:55:17.673-07:00Comments on Flogging Babel: There Is No Hope. I Choose To Hope.Michael Swanwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-42723692269608706702014-05-15T18:24:12.129-07:002014-05-15T18:24:12.129-07:00I agree. The same bastards responsible for this a...I agree. The same bastards responsible for this atrocity have committed many more. And there are so many monsters in the world that compassion fatigue is a real problem. The world is large and we are small. There are more evils than any one of us can address. I gave up hope long ago.<br /><br />But that didn't let me off the hook. Kurt Vonnegut ended PLAYER PIANO with his doomed protagonists offering a toast "for the record." That's been my moral touchstone ever since. <br /><br />To all the fascists, schoolgirl kidnappers, mass murderers, purveyors of cruelty and torture and despair, here is my middle finger, extended.<br /><br />For the record.<br />Michael Swanwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-50434398622430232992014-05-15T14:59:03.369-07:002014-05-15T14:59:03.369-07:00I wasn't aware of people mocking that movement...I wasn't aware of people mocking that movement overtly (which is shameless pandering to the worst kind of jerks), but I have read articles that ask why we pay so much attention to this but remain relatively unaware of things like a massacre of 300 villages by BH in the same area.<br /><br />I think the answer is that people have more than enough space in their hearts for all of this. It's the media (in the US at least) that fails us. They only have so much bandwidth and they squander too much of it on non-stories that happen to have good video footage, like today's heroic cat video.David Stonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09983230505509685792noreply@blogger.com