rubberdinghy Posted January 9, 2005 Report Share Posted January 9, 2005 Poor turnout leaves empty feeling I don't even know what to think of this...I know I didn't show up, I knew about it, I just didn't go...I was lazy, am I a bad person, or is Earl just trying to make people feel guilty....Maybe people are getting tired of hearing about world tragedies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted January 9, 2005 Report Share Posted January 9, 2005 ha! 18000 for hockey and 600 for tragedy. i posed this same theory the other night with the fabulous shelby and adam...i said people don't care about anything unless they know the consequences to themselves. i'm usually a really caring person. tragedy moves me. when this tsunami thing happened, it didn't pull at my heart strings as other acts of god have in the past. and considering the magnitude of this event i was surprised. i was primarily concerned with foreign aid and the political ramifications of it until a friend pointed out that when giant natural disasters happen where there is a huge death toll and not much to help survivors it's like a festering wound in the earth. that area with dirty water, little to no food and little adequate medical treatment will become a breeding ground for disease and possibly create a plague that chronilogically the world is due for. That made sense to me. knowing the consequences to me. it sucks. we think we're enlightened, unselfish, caring people. something bad happens, we open our wallets and from that point on we say go away. maybe it's over exposure that desensitizes us i dunno, but name one disaster locally or globally that doesn't get forgotten sooner rather than later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine Posted January 9, 2005 Report Share Posted January 9, 2005 I don't know what to say.....I didn't even know about this ceremony. It does seem like a sad turn-out, but they can't blame people and say they don't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted January 9, 2005 Report Share Posted January 9, 2005 publicity has something to do with it, but you would think that an event with the prime minister (let alone all of those other dignitaries) would draw more than 600 people. you think bush does anything in the states that only 600 people show up to? if you don't want to compare ourselves to the US fine, you think any leader of any country shows up in the nations capitol with a population of over 1 million and 600 people show up? i'm not making excuses or trying to say people don't care, this bothers me, it's embarrassing to me as a canadian and i'll be interested to see if this gets swept under the rug or if they come out with why this didn't work out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 i just saw a video of this thing... i dont know how to post a direct link to the video, but here's the page that i found it on... its strange to see it at this point, i cant even begin to imagine being on the beach, or closer to that vicinity... holy sh!t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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