Media and Mauritius

i had an awesome day yesterday...
it seems like everything is getting on a nice way this week...
on leaving the university i saw a fire in a sugar cane field
it was pretty far from where i was but there was quite a bunch of smoke that was in the air
and i gotta say that i was quite impressed...
it made me think of all the disasters and calamities that we see on TV
9/11, forest-fires in Southern-America, Terrorist attacks and so on
i think that we people who don't see it or never experience such thing
it seems like the TV show HEROES is pretty cool in the sense that it explores this phobia of the end and some probable invasion by 'the other' (peeps with abilities)
we can just not estimate how disastrous and what kind of impact it might be having
physically, psychologically, financially and all the blablabla
and it made me also think that the media through which we see all of these events have a role
in the way we think.
i mean, nowadays, i don't know if people still dare watching the evening news on the local TV
loads of households now have satellite TV and internet
but most of these channels are convey much of a westernized point of view
i'm pointing at anyone here but i can't understand that what's happening in middle east or eastern countries are just facts and figures
i recall 9/11, how the whole world was seeing the images live
while some were feeling so crushed about the events
some other we rejoicing, burning flags...
they just don't get it... it's not about Nation... it's about human lives
it's stunning how some British news company make such a fuss about the intervention of their troops in Iraq and how "glorious" these soldiers are
i mean, being in the army ain't a baby's stuff, but we all know the vestige wars....
moreover, every magazine about this part of the world give the impression that they actually just leave these person who are in great difficulties with their own fate
and then there's always a bunch of idealists who think that they can change the world
and they try god damn hard, but never succeed...
why?
because they don't have any consequent back up in whatever way
living in a country where people, even the so-called "elite" is being conditionned not to think and to be passive
it's hard to take a stand
in class today, there was a "discussion" about intelligence and stupidity
the conversation got much better in class when my lecturer had a good point about people who sooner or later will have to take their own fate in these dumb hands
i mean, there is not much political continuity in here
and all of these guys just come up to fill their pockets and leave to their street in London...
and most of the youngster just leave the country, hoping that the grass in more green elsewhere
Australia, Canada, Ireland, sometimes UK and so on...
but what about Mauritius?