sad

i know it's sad to start a new year with sad thoughts
but it's just really really sad to read that
one reason why this whole gaza thing is still killing people
is because a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire
is deemed still "unbalanced" by the US and the UK (article here).

i mean, people are dying in there.
but of course ranting about it won't do much.
here's hoping that prayers would help.


to summarize centuries of conflict into four words,
this whole gaza thing,
would be sad too but i can't help it.

somebody mentioned that in the film
frost/nixon
how oversimplification in the era of tv and close-up shots
can dehumanize us.
(i think it can humanize too and just to update the film: if during there time they were worrying about the tv, we have the internet now and a good example is the fact that israel has a youtube channel now just to update everyone on the whole gaza thing, link here)

the movie reminded me how (duh moment looming)
at our worst, we can be very very bad.
heck, all the books i've been reading lately sort of revealed that.

john f. kennedy, tony blair, adolf hitler, adam smith, osama bin laden.
and they're all filled with sad stories.

that good book status anxiety shared how
the greek tragedy might just well be
the best art form that illustrates our humanity,
how the worst in any one of us is so much a part of us
and how that whole hubris thing so consumes us.
which is why i thought the godfather was a more accessible greek tragedy.

i wonder how i'd actually embrace that thought.
here's to temperance,
and a happy and sad new year.


it will be both happy and sad anyway
so might as well just say it. have a good one.