@Espiritus Corvus
Nothing infiltrates through all the layers of the human brain, that’s for sure. I wonder if it is like a waterfall of words, poured through a sieve in our brains, and we retain whatever doesn’t wash right on past.
Back when schools had just been invented, the courses I took were all of only certain prescribed information, not to encourage anyone to look up and question anything. But then rocks had just been invented moments before said school, sooo, yeah. Students now are receiving a world-wide view of a gazillion times more information than what was.
I don’t know what makes things stick.
Personally, one of the situations that I am always checking on are the activities of the Boko Haram terrorist group. I cannot get the images of the young women, and later, young men, being taken by those jackals in Africa. No one made a move. Not one country. Not the UN. Zero. Zip. Nothing. Silence.
Darfur, women gathering firewood and carrying on in horrid camp conditions, and these horrid groups in their early incarnations, laid in wait for these inescapable fuel foraging trips. Capturing these women was sport. Assaulting these women, everything done up to killing them, they then brand the women to draw attention, so that when the women made it back afterwards, they then became an ‘embarrassment’ to their families! Dishonoring the families? Killed for such, or the male member of the family committed suicide out of shame, thus leaving the woman to support their family alone. Clinton’s Administration.
On to Bush’s Administration; US troops went into Northern Africa after the leaders of the Middle East were beginning to crumble. When asked why the troops were doing so, it was immediately covered up. The media was soon to drop it also. Were they looking for areas for oil exploration? Taking an extended fieldtrip to get to get to know the locals? Who knows? No one will answer.
I can’t seem to stop looking there. The whole country is one of the last areas with fluidity in it’s borders, uncontained cruelty, and a desperate sort of survival.
And so, I bring up yet another dirty secret. Another black eye for all who have constantly maintained a sense of ‘out of sight, out of mind’ from around the world-towards these peoples. Some of the bombings of areas, other than Paris, at least have earned a place on the evening news, no matter how briefly. There are so many left out entirely.