Middle of the weekned morning

So it’s pushing midday Sunday of the October long weekend.  Right now I have this feeling I have already used up a lot of my weekend but yet this sense that there is still heaps to go, suppose I am just not used to the concept of having Monday off.  It’s a beautiful day today & as I woke up feeling the warmth of the sun on my Tin Can’s (caravan) roof I felt the inspiration to do a bit of reading.
I am currently reading Jim Wallis’s book “God’s Politics”.  It’s kinda long & would have been a more relevant read a few years ago as much of it is talking about stuff associated with 9/11.  That said much of the comments he makes are timeless & very profound.
Where I am up to in the book he is talking about the challenges of making a definition for “terrorism” & part of his personal conclusion on the matter is that killing innocent civilian’s not matter the cause it wrong.  Isn’t it funny that our media frenzied society we could even conceive killing innocent civilian’s as simply a necessity of achieving our ultimate aims.  It really angers me how the TV has achived the very opposite of what is was meant to.  As a whole rather than opening out eyes to “the world” & being a good medium to communiate the problems of the world to motivate us into action it has done the very opposite.  See the thing is that if I watch an impacting show or docco on TV it may feel a few memontay emotions & a desire to do something but often that is all.  Watching TV seems to spur as to more inaction rather than more action.  It can challenge or inspire but it can’t follow up or hold accountable.  Untimately it has allowed us to sit in on, or witness many horrific things without any responsiblity to do anything about it.
However it is looked at innocent civilian’s being killed is a deeply distresssing thing & we should never take it lightly.  If only my watching this kinda thing on TV could make a difference but it can’t, it requires much more commitment & sacrifice than that.

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