Respect And Awe
I’ve been closely following the earthquake in Haiti. I have been mostly following it on the CBC or CNN. The coverage has mainly focused on the recovery effort by many countries. And as I continue to watch I can’t help but realize how far we as humans distance ourselves from nature. Of course it is a tragedy that thousands of lives are lost, but not even this mass loss of life at the hands of Mother Nature has built any sort of respect and awe for nature and all its power. I have seen nothing on the news coverage that even sheds a little light on the fact that an earthquake is a very natural event; instead our mainstream “journalists” treat it as if it were a terrorist attack.
I’m sure that native people (whether they be from years ago or in the present), when witnessing a natural “disaster” like a tornado or a phenomenon like a solar eclipse, experienced it with wonder, respect and awe.
We, at least as a North American culture, can’t grasp the idea of something that can be as deadly as an earthquake as a normal and necessary occurrence.
We should remember the people who the earth has taken, but at the same time we should be humbled by such unforgiving power.
Instead, in mainstream news there is too much money to be made on the disaster scenario spin, when it comes to natural “disasters.”
And when profit of money is involved, respect is usually nowhere in site.
I thought this was fitting……
