Friday, 3 February 2012

Remembering Dr Pangloss.

The headline read:

Donald Trump Endorses Mitt Romney.

Imagine a world run by people like that. Joke and a half, right? Oh, hang on – the world is run by people like that. Damn!

Another news report said that the number of people killed by the severely cold weather in Ukraine has reached treble figures, most of them homeless people who died on the streets.

It seems somehow a bit wrong that we live in a world dripping with the trappings of wealth – the yachts, the private jets, the million dollar artworks, the outsize diamonds – and yet there are still homeless people freezing to death on the streets.

Or is that right? Is that how it’s supposed to be? Is the whole purpose of having a physical incarnation to give us the chance to experience everything, the suffering as well as the comfort, and to give those of us who are more ‘fortunate’ the opportunity to help the sufferers? Is it the best of all possible worlds after all?

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