Do People Care?

In the past few days more than 20.000 people died in Myanmar after a Cyclone rolled through the country.
Over 20.000 of the poorest people in the world died. Surviving might have been a matter of having a brick house instead of a wooden house.
Rice fields where littered with corpses, yes, this might have been a good reason why the price of rice went up( and not because of some greediness).
The news on tv5 spend about two minutes on the tragedy that took place in their neighboring country and then they went on about the big news! Something in the fashion world!
It reminded me of a Jack Johnson song where he sings: why can't the News reader be descent enough to put just a tear in his eye.
And then people go to work the next day and talk about what happened in Myanmar for 5 minutes and then the rest of the day the hot topic will be about the latest fashion news and the latest news about this or that actor or actrice.
We can at least be descent enough to say a quite prayer for all those unfortunate people and praise ourselves lucky with whatever we have. After all, that little bit of luxury we have is probably much more than a lot of people have in this world.