We must take a minute away from the problems of Nigeria and for many, their own individual issues and take a look at the events that recently unfolded and are ongoing in the Carribean country of Haiti.
The devastation shown has been devastating to put it mildly. The more one watches the crushed buildings and the chaos that followed while being hopeful as some are found alive after a number of days under the rubble, the more the questions arise.The number of the dead that litter the streets or are bunched together in open spaces with people still going about seeking some relief or the other.
Two things struck me aside the ‘miracle’ finds and rescues. What is life really worth at the end of it all. With the soul gone or the spirit flown the coop, the body is simply just another piece of luggage you can choose to discard at Left Luggage. Someone else will pick it up when the time comes.
Many in Haiti have lost close family, they have lost neighbours, friends and associates. They spent some quality time with these people now dead on the streets.
In a quest for survival, the dead are simply bodies lying in the street. Deposited at left Luggage and someone else will do the picking up. What really was the value of human relationships during a lifetime?
The dishonourable manner in which bodies are left to rot or be picked up, you would think that 200,000 plus individuals never had family, friends or associates.
Is this the definition of Darwin’s Theory? The fittest in these conditions shall continue the fight for survival while the unfortunate have spent their time and become someone else’s problem.
I have since concluded that humanity today has become inhumane. It is all about self in our lives and what drives are relationships.
The question is, why have we consistently decieved ourselves that human beings are built to care or be concerned for each other?
The foreign nations immediately send in teams or rescuers and support groups. One of the most visible things that burn the heart is that safe, well-bodied and able foreigners are lifted from the scene as a priority. They are the fittest in Darwin’s world and the countries know their priorities and stick to them.
I remember Rwanda and the UN evacuation. Foreigners including dogs made it onto the lorries and buses. The natives were left to fend for themselves as death at the hands of fellow Africans lurked across the same road in the bushes. The priority of self is not a new phenomenon, we simply chose to look and sound politically correct in a morally bankrupt world.
Save our own first and get down to the task of finding those ‘natives’ you can. Some more would have died as a consequence but that does not matter. Me first, you later.
Do the dead no longer deserve respect, while we rush to achieve selfish objectives?
What really are relationships, associations and friendships worth today when recent-cohabitants of a city can easily be stepped over as they lay dead in the streets? Do they no longer have families, friends, associates or even dignity as human beings?
Like ragdolls most will end up in mass graves shovel high by tractors via dump trucks.
It is not all about money or raising money and should not be. Provide these people with a certain amount of dignity in death. The living will take care of themselves.
What do you think?
