Context
Unfinished draft, published as found.
My Skydasher headlines are kind of interesting today…
It is a huge shame that in today’s day and age that we need to pull stunts like Live 8 to cut through the media noise. I’m always stunned that we can so easily turn a blind eye to the fact that people are dying because of first world ignorance, excess and politically motivated greed. I’m also ashamed that I haven’t been able to make this a priority in my day-to-day thinking.
I mean, I see it first hand on a regular basis. My business travel takes me to some of the most impoverished parts of the world where I get to stay in great hotels and tour their slums from the safety of a cab or a charter bus because I haven’t anything better to do that particular afternoon. Perhaps I shouldn’t be so hard on myself, after all, these trips help me learn a great deal about the plight of the countries I visit, and the people who live there.
I’ll never forget the trip that I made to Ghana a few years back. We spent the better part of a day visiting local entrepreneurs and getting a better sense of the technical challenges that businesses wishing to take part in the internet economy faced. We were
At first I was skeptical that Live 8 would be able to make a convincing point the second time out. After all, who remembers Woodstock 2, 3 or 4?
But support for the point is mounting it seems.
See this post as it first appeared on Blogware.