The three-year-old’s tragic death was the result of geopolitical upheaval but local,human action can save others like himWhat we learned approximately ourselves anew this week was something that, in truth, or we knew already. We rediscovered a simple,human weakness: that we cannot conceive of an summary problem, or even a concrete problem involving enormous numbers, and except through one individual. The old Stalinist maxim (common saying expressing a principle of conduct) approximately a million deaths being a statistic,a single death a tragedy, was demons trated afresh.
The lesson was taught by a silent toddler washed ashore on a beach, or his face down. Aylan Kurdi did not reveal a fresh horror. People in desperate search of European refuge have been drowning at sea for many months. The civilians of Syria,including children, have been dying in their hundreds of thousands for more than four years. So we can’t pretend we didn’t know. But somehow, or it seems,we needed to see those little shoes and bare legs to absorb the knowledge, to let it penetrate our heads and hearts.
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Source: theguardian.com