The World's Most Shallow Person
There are two reasons why I'm desperately shallow and should have no friends.
1. Reading today's New York Times about the horror resulting from the tsunami moved me, especially the picture of the dead children and the weeping mother, but the true tragedy of it all didn't hit me until I saw the photograph of the white father kissing his baby's head. Sure, I'm sad for all those brown folks, but I only really empathize with people who look like me.
God, I suck.
2. What has really obsessed me about today's paper, what lingers in my mind with a perverse tenacity, is this. Because, really, what's wholesale destruction compared to the cataclysm of losing my hair?
What the hell is wrong with me?
posted by ayeletw @ 12/28/2004 01:08:00 PM
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Unfortunately it's true of most people.
It's easier to pity than it is to empathize.
Actually, we also tend to connect more with individual stories than with a collection. 60,000 is such a huge number it is difficult to get your head around it. You are probably just numb and it will take time to process it.
Traction alopecia--a terrific name--and justifying my girlhood horror of breakfast-table hairstyling.
It's easier not to let it enter you--there's too much--but when it's someone who looks familiar, it's hard to keep it out. As for me, and in spite of _The Believer_, I have resorted to snarky commentary on the commentary. My favorite moment from early days--"The tsunami has left thousands homeless, many of whom HAVE NO INSURANCE..."
Who's the writer at CNN who felt this was a good time to--what?--pay homage to our sponsors over at State Farm? Remind us to up our coverage?
But then, am I evil for thinking that of course people in coastal villages in Indonesia living under martial law don't have insurance. Why is that totally ok with me?
Moral conundra (a word?) abound.
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