chaos or no?
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somebody who is shot and dying. The police shot and killed 27 people:
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That’s a lot, isn’t it? I think so, but maybe I don’t really know. It would be a lot in the United States, but is it a lot in Latin America? And would it be a lot in China? Or in the Sri Lanka? These are things I should know.
The most striking footage was of a man lying in the street, his face obscured by the another man giving him CPR. Certainly he was dying, because what can CPR do to fix a bullet wound? A man dying in the street. People die terrible deaths each day, right? so why did I find this disturbing? Maybe it was that I will be there soon and I don’t want to be shot. I think that was part of it, but there was more: The images of thousands of people rushing past landmarks I had seen in May contrasted sharply with my impressions of Argentina. I perceived relative peace and contentment. This new input made me doubt my interpretation. Did the happy faces and ostensibly relaxed attitudes of the people I met belie depression or fear that I was too foreign to detect? Or is the opposite true: do the media search out the most disturbing images out there to paint newsworthy images of a society that in truth is functioning, if somewhat hobbled?
Visit the country, talk to the people, and things seem ok. Read the paper and it sounds like a whopping mess. Which is more true?
antes era david & danny & david on the boardwalk
despues tenés soma
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