Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Globalization

The world is such a small place.

Two of my close friends are evacuated from the Hurricane Katrina. I watch CNN videos online, astonished.

That's when it occurs to me. The consequence of a global world is everyone feeling connected to things.
I also know someone in London.
And a friend of mine in India just missed the Tsunami since it arrived relatively early in the morning. So, only some dead, compared to thousands and thousands who would have been had it hit in the afternoon.
A friend of a friend lost his son.

I've been, to New Orleans. I wouldn't want Bourbon Street washed away.
But I'll have eye witnesses to ask, when they return home, discovering that university papers don't know hurricane-timeouts.

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