WE live in a world, where virtual has made a bid to trump virtuous.; a world of instantaneous information based on image rather than Knowledge that interfaces&expresses the mind as much as matter, without shedding much insight into either. And, the more we hear and see, the less we 'Know," unless we make the effort not to be deluded.
Relying on scientific method--the best tool that we've got to calibrate 'reality,' Let us take a look at one of the greatest illusions of this century: massive, worldwide, invasive. If Houdini lived today, he would be in awe.
Perhaps you have traveled to places in the Arab world, so maybe you can guess where these pictures were taken. No photoshop images; stark reality, facts on the ground.
The answer and the photo credits are at the
end, where the end is actually still in the middle....
Recall descriptions such as "impoverished" "under strict curfew" "open air prison" and still worst trying to hold its own description as "the worst humanitarian crisis in the 21st century
Recall "the most densely populated place in the world"
...now look a little closer . . . and the density is no greater than any other seaside city, e.g., NYC, London,
"suffering," "an open air prison," "living without hope"
"suffering from harsh even brutal import restrictions... preventing building, commercial growth and development "
"plagued by unemployment. Kept from natural progress"
"oppressed"
"degraded"
"humiliated"
In need of a unique UN relief, welfare and monitoring body "to assure its survival " granted to no other region nor nation in the world, some many orders of magnitude more chronic, more tragic
"constantly fighting off devastating disease for lack of basic medicines and foodstuffs"
"deprived of construction materials to meet basic human needs"
.... continued......
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