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A picture speaks a million words
I know I promised to write about the political prize of education after my last post, but I’m going to postpone for now. My fianceé sent me this picture, a 1994 Pulitzer Prize winning picture. My heart broke, and I almost cried when I saw it.
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This picture was taken from The Digital Filmmaker.
This picture shows a starving child in Sudan, with a vulture behind just bidding its time to feed on the child. I consider myself a strong man, but this is simply a picture that’s too much for me to take.
The photographer, Kevin Carter, committed suicide three months being awarded the Pulitzer prize.
I cannot help but think about the entire Wee Shu-min cyber-drama all over again. While in Singapore we don’t have such extreme cases, but it is a fact that many people are suffering an uncertain future, not knowing whether they can have the next meal. Yet, those in comfort display such condescending and uncaring attitudes.
If you are reading this, please take some time and think about what can you do to help your fellow human beings. Donate money, do humanitarian work, spread the word, whatever. And, before you waste food next time, remember this picture.
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about 3 years ago
what we need is a better system. a system that is workable and help those truly in need. not hiphops and propaganda/brainwashing via state controlled media.
about 3 years ago
relax man.
back where i live, i can see the same state, albeit less dramatically every day.
people die, people kill people just because of hanger, nature kill people, people kill dead people (i live by a cemetary by the way.
don’t look too far. indonesia is south east asia’s africa!
about 3 years ago
I know. It’s a sad world, isn’t it? However, that should not stop us from trying to make the world better. What we need is more education, and more compassion.
about 3 years ago
maybe its good that we are to return to our world of basic, only there will everyone help each other out, leaving out war and pangs of starvation in the liveng
about 3 years ago
That would be ideal. However, realistically speaking, that’s not possible. What is possible, however, is to realise that such things are happening and we should be grateful everyday for what we have and take our own small actions, such as not wasting food.
about 3 years ago
Well, education is good but something must be wrong with our education system if the supposedly cream of the crop turns out to be people like Wee Shu Min.
She’s a smart and intelligent girl, but really, what happened to lessons in empathy, compassion and humility? Is this what a world class education system is supposed to produce? Cold, calculating and remorseless machines?
about 3 years ago
I doubt that she’s a cold, calculating and remorseless machine. If she’s so devoid of feelings, I think that’s really sad. I’m more inclined to think that she’s so comfortable up there in her ivory tower that she doesn’t know the suffering of those down there. It’s a problem in all societies, really. The difference is that in Singapore, the government lays the blame on the individual, instead of examining whether the individual is really the problem, or are there other macro level forces that are beyond the individual’s control.
about 6 months ago
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