Tuesday October 30, 2007 On The Margins
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
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California Earthquake -- Alum Rock
A jolty but short lived 5.6 earthquake, which happened at around 8:04:54 pm PST, took a minute or so to travel from the epicenter to where I live. SJ Mercury has a running roll of how others felt. (The earthquake was recorded on USGS website within a minute or so, even before the magnitude could be calculated.)
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Moral Compass and Information
We have a clear proof today that abundance and "free" flow of "news" and "information"—yes, much of it manufactured for nefarious purposes of one kind or another, and yet much of it potentially relevant—does not make a nation morally wise to understand simple facts like the plain immorality of bringing occupation, death and destruction to people thousands of miles away.
We also have a proof that, through manufactured fear, a nation can be aroused to a frenzy, easily disarmed of its simplest moral sense and compass and made to abandon its most fundamental social skill—placing oneself in the shoes of others.
No technology can inoculate a people against such a moral disease—a disease that can only be prevented and eradicated through "moral education," to borrow McMurray's phrase.
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