Sunday, May 23, 2004
We are the future
I was watching we are the future, you are the answer concert on MTV2. It was held on May 16th on the streets of Rome, Italy. "We" referring to the children and "you" referring to us: citizens of the world.
There were lots of famous singers, like Santana, Norah Jones, Josh Groban and lots that I didn't know but were absolutely fantastic.
The concert was for the children of the world. It was pro peace and anti war.
Santana said: We are the other side of America, we are not Bush!... We will start peace here, with myself!
I wish people would be in peace with each other. It is a small world and it should be possible to maintain peace. Yet throughout the history people have been killing each other for various reasons: greed, land, women, power, and oil.
There are so many "good" people in the world though. There are so many people to whom there are no borders or bad or evil. Why cannot we all be like that? Why is it that we think a race is better than the other, a culture is better than the other, a god is better than the other, and...
I always thought that individuals can be free to be what they want to be and do what they want to do as long as they anticipate the same right for the other people in the society. Now if this was the case, and if everyone thought so, do you think we'd still have war, famine and hunger in this world? I don't know. It is a hard question. But I am sure that even if these miseries were not eliminated from the face of the Earth, they would be reduced at least.
I took a course in Public health when I was getting my MS in Johns Hopkins. Our professor, Les Roberts, is one of the most renowned people in his field. He told us about the things he'd seen in Rwanda. He told us that he does not recommend anyone younger than 40 years of age travel to countries suffering from such crisis. He said that seeing such scenes as he saw would change your view of life and of humanity.
Why?
Les Roberts came to Cornell a year ago for a speech. I went to talk to him. He said that he was going to Afganistan. They wanted to measure mortality rate within a 12 months period since the nutrition of the Afghanies was so poor. He said that they do not get any protein.
Can we learn to live together?
"Peace is possible around the world, and children are the obvious answer—after all, it is their future."
—Quincy Jones
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There were lots of famous singers, like Santana, Norah Jones, Josh Groban and lots that I didn't know but were absolutely fantastic.
The concert was for the children of the world. It was pro peace and anti war.
Santana said: We are the other side of America, we are not Bush!... We will start peace here, with myself!
I wish people would be in peace with each other. It is a small world and it should be possible to maintain peace. Yet throughout the history people have been killing each other for various reasons: greed, land, women, power, and oil.
There are so many "good" people in the world though. There are so many people to whom there are no borders or bad or evil. Why cannot we all be like that? Why is it that we think a race is better than the other, a culture is better than the other, a god is better than the other, and...
I always thought that individuals can be free to be what they want to be and do what they want to do as long as they anticipate the same right for the other people in the society. Now if this was the case, and if everyone thought so, do you think we'd still have war, famine and hunger in this world? I don't know. It is a hard question. But I am sure that even if these miseries were not eliminated from the face of the Earth, they would be reduced at least.
I took a course in Public health when I was getting my MS in Johns Hopkins. Our professor, Les Roberts, is one of the most renowned people in his field. He told us about the things he'd seen in Rwanda. He told us that he does not recommend anyone younger than 40 years of age travel to countries suffering from such crisis. He said that seeing such scenes as he saw would change your view of life and of humanity.
Why?
Les Roberts came to Cornell a year ago for a speech. I went to talk to him. He said that he was going to Afganistan. They wanted to measure mortality rate within a 12 months period since the nutrition of the Afghanies was so poor. He said that they do not get any protein.
Can we learn to live together?
"Peace is possible around the world, and children are the obvious answer—after all, it is their future."
—Quincy Jones
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