Monday, December 27, 2004
Sleight of mind
I am bewildered.
This internet /SMS thing has turned into a medium for indirect communication between people who should be able to speak their minds directly to each other.
And these responses are oblique, and point at something else which will apparently simply not be said.
Of course it's not just about ethics.
It's about people getting hurt, and about me giving a damn about my friends.
What I don't get is how I've managed to hurt one of them through asking her to help defend another?
Perhaps I should learn something from all this. Perhaps my original ethic was right all along.
Don't get personal.
*****
The Tsunami Effect
Apparently, the Official Singaporean response to the unthinkable catastrophies that occurred yesterday, the day after Christmas, that claimed thousands of lives was not one of compassion or sensitivity, but of petulent self-centredness.
Lots of ah-pu-neh-nehs die or suffer, nevermind, my holiday to phuket spoil. Nahbei, someone will have to pay me back for this.
I applaud yawningbread for astutely pointing out that the comments must have been led by the closed-questions from the media. I too wish it could be different in this third-world country we live in. We are, you know. We look and sound and smell like a developed nation, but we are primitive in our minds.
Sometimes it's not all about us, but about other people getting hurt.
I had thought that my own friends might be different from the rest of the flock.
I shall not make that same mistake twice.
This internet /SMS thing has turned into a medium for indirect communication between people who should be able to speak their minds directly to each other.
And these responses are oblique, and point at something else which will apparently simply not be said.
Of course it's not just about ethics.
It's about people getting hurt, and about me giving a damn about my friends.
What I don't get is how I've managed to hurt one of them through asking her to help defend another?
Perhaps I should learn something from all this. Perhaps my original ethic was right all along.
Don't get personal.
*****
The Tsunami Effect
Apparently, the Official Singaporean response to the unthinkable catastrophies that occurred yesterday, the day after Christmas, that claimed thousands of lives was not one of compassion or sensitivity, but of petulent self-centredness.
Lots of ah-pu-neh-nehs die or suffer, nevermind, my holiday to phuket spoil. Nahbei, someone will have to pay me back for this.
I applaud yawningbread for astutely pointing out that the comments must have been led by the closed-questions from the media. I too wish it could be different in this third-world country we live in. We are, you know. We look and sound and smell like a developed nation, but we are primitive in our minds.
Sometimes it's not all about us, but about other people getting hurt.
I had thought that my own friends might be different from the rest of the flock.
I shall not make that same mistake twice.
