Of Nature, Suffering and the Internet

If you live in an area with earthquakes, you might suffer. If you live in an area with a volcano, you might suffer. If you live in an area where it floods, freezes, scorches, has terrible storms, landslides, avalanches, aligators, bears, lions, snakes, spiders, insects… you might suffer. Sounds like suffering is inherent in nature doesnt it?

If you live in a city, you’ll most likely suffer. If you drive a car, you’ll most likely suffer. If you ride a bike, walk dow the street, deal in business, dont deal in business, work too hard, work too little, live in an unstable country, live in a stable one, work in a school, work at a prison, work (hell anywhere), IF YOU DEAL WITH PEOPLE YOU WILL SUFFER.

I don’t understand why it is that when suffering happens, iether because of nature of because of people, we all drop what we’re doing and gawk like a global community of rubberneckers. And I dont understand why we expect that the internet should be without suffering when we’ve taken nature out (the milder of the two) and replaced it with a heaping handful of human. Anonymous human at that. People this is life… Do something unprecedented about it, or learn to live with the fact that something might happen. Because lets face it you could fall for an e-mail scam, or you could trip on a crack in the sidewalk and sustain fatal injuries. Life’s just a bitch sometimes… It’s enough of a bitch without all the bitching going on…

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