Hotel Rwanda

Finally watched Hotel Rwanda in the theatre last night. Last week we rented The Killing Fields about the Cambodian Holocaust. Sense a pattern? Yup. I'm Trying to get something...Something in me to understand WTF is going on in the Sudan right now. And why why why this keeps moving from place to place...what IS it in humanity that keeps going so terribly terribly Wrong. This Detachment from the Other....not just apathy (which is pretty bad in itself)...but the kind of completely severing detachment that would allow one to commit such Heinous Unimaginable violence to innocent people. I JUST DON'T GET IT!! The FOOLISH FOOLISH arbitrary divisions. Hutus vs. Tsusis, Aryans vs. Jews, Israelis vs. Palestinians, Bloods vs. Crypts, North vs. South, my freekin clubhouse against yours. GROW UP HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP WASTING ALL YOUR DAMN ENERGY/TIME DESTROYING EACHOTHER!!!!!!!!!!
*bangs head against wall*
*repeatedly*
On a hopeful note...just seeing that a group of folks on omidyar.net got together their upset and collaborated through a thread to create a website StopGenocideNow.org and other projects to raise awareness soothes my heart a wee bit. It's so important for us to keep thinking of ways to show how the individual can DO something positive...to design more intuitive/easy systems and ways. Keep pointing. You know, like:
Click Here if you give a shit.
Or Here
much love,
D
OH! and watch the movie(s) if you haven't!duh;)