"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against
the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better,
but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse
than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking
primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions,
to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley
"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination.
All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.
"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"
WOW – Nothing I can say could say more than that!
Poor little child. He has no weapons of mass destruction with which to interest the superpowers. Nor any oil. And nothing but Janjaweed to comfort him.
Nothing much can be said about the issue, or add to the above comments.
Just for the sake of sharing thoughts about the cartoon, as a cartoon, I don’t like this wave, though it’s bothering aspect is maybe it’s strength.
I would have drawn (if I knew how) something representing the indifference… a sort of wave going away from the child and leaving him by himself…
See what you mean. The earth wave’s strength is disconcerting when its really the indifference that’s the crux of the issue. Still a striking political statement, would love to have a fraction of the talent of these cartoonists.
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