important is what we see on the telly

and nowadays, we see the uneven struggle of "good-hearted" tibetans against the "evil" chinese. note that the adjectives are not my own.

what moves people's emotion is not the struggle, the violence, the slaughter - but the struggle, the violence and the slaughter which get to the prime time on television newsbreaks. hence the reason why today everyone talks about the conflict between china and tibet, and no one gives a fuck about darfur. just as before everyone spoke about how evil were the united states in iraq, or how evil was israel in the gaza conflict, and no one cared about darfur. but people will care. oh, yes they will. we've all seen the movie before, after all: once the genocide is done, and hundreds of thousands (if not millions) have being murdered, people will see what happened. and they will judge, and they will condemn, and the united nations will broadcast a cute speech about it. it happened before in ruanda. it will happen again. too bad it will be too late for the ones who died while the world was happily talking about the olimpic games and half a dozen monks.