After writing about the poor young boy who is seriously overweight (and if you could not understand a word he said, neither could I and I only live a few hundred miles from him!) I came across this video which is presented as ‘edutainment’ I think. It makes a wonderful juxtaposition to the plight of that young boy. It also says a lot about how we are as a society. There’s a 10 second ad first and it stops occasionally to buffer, but it’s interesting to watch.
When we remember that there are people starving in the world, the production of those doughnuts looks distinctly selfish. It reminds me of a story a vicar or rabbi once told about heaven and hell. A man dies and asks the angel who comes for him to show him hell. It’s a room with the most beautiful Chinese banquet you can imagine, but everyone has chopsticks which are 2 feet long – so they are starving for all eternity. When he asks to see heaven, he’s shown another room with the same banquet and chopsticks. But in this room everyone is feeding the person sitting opposite.
Man, that makes such a lot of sense to me.
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