Tsunami!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well well there I was distracted by the fact that we might get a white Christmas this year when in the early hours of boxing day morning an 8.9 (the strongest quake for 40 years) goes off in north Sumatra
Now since I found out about this at about 9am this morning I have been obsessed by it, watching, like millions of others throughout the world the slick news channels. Its damn exciting watching chaos like this unfold infront of your eyes, I even go and make a cup of tea and get myself a seasonal mince pie to accompany me, as reports spew out like some sadistic death raising event, every so often the reporter informs me of a new death total, 1000,s here 100,s there 10,000 in total and rising.
It seems, that so distant is this disaster made by that screen, that I don't seem to feel bad about it, I just watch avidly as each and every new bit of footage comes in, flipping between CNN and news 24 and skynews for the next info fix the next bit of video and maybe even footage of the actual wave!!!
I even remark to myself how cool it might be to be there!!!!! WHAT!!!!! THE FUCK!!!
have I gone mad....
The TV has anethatised me to the fact that it stinks of sewage, there will be mass panic, disease and death all around. That as I sit there in the comfort of my own home 1000's of bodies are piling into morgues with no way of IDing them cause all there stuff has been washed away!!!!!
I dunno its strange, but it feels like entertainment, and isn't that just a little sick!! I mean is it me or the medium!!! I know I should be horrified and I am, but I'm also fascinated by it. Its like the ultimate disaster movie! Like I'm so used to seeing death and destruction on the screen that the line between entertainment and real life is really blurred.
Maybe its ok to enjoy the news!!!?
Now since I found out about this at about 9am this morning I have been obsessed by it, watching, like millions of others throughout the world the slick news channels. Its damn exciting watching chaos like this unfold infront of your eyes, I even go and make a cup of tea and get myself a seasonal mince pie to accompany me, as reports spew out like some sadistic death raising event, every so often the reporter informs me of a new death total, 1000,s here 100,s there 10,000 in total and rising.
It seems, that so distant is this disaster made by that screen, that I don't seem to feel bad about it, I just watch avidly as each and every new bit of footage comes in, flipping between CNN and news 24 and skynews for the next info fix the next bit of video and maybe even footage of the actual wave!!!
I even remark to myself how cool it might be to be there!!!!! WHAT!!!!! THE FUCK!!!
have I gone mad....
The TV has anethatised me to the fact that it stinks of sewage, there will be mass panic, disease and death all around. That as I sit there in the comfort of my own home 1000's of bodies are piling into morgues with no way of IDing them cause all there stuff has been washed away!!!!!
I dunno its strange, but it feels like entertainment, and isn't that just a little sick!! I mean is it me or the medium!!! I know I should be horrified and I am, but I'm also fascinated by it. Its like the ultimate disaster movie! Like I'm so used to seeing death and destruction on the screen that the line between entertainment and real life is really blurred.
Maybe its ok to enjoy the news!!!?
posted by lukusdukus at 2:25 PM
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