It’s a sad state of affairs when world leader’s first priority is to grab
the world’s attention. They want to be in the spotlight, as though that is an
accomplishment in and of itself. Is this some new game? Like charades? We see
one get lots of media time and immediately another one will do or say something
dangerous or controversial, grabbing up all of the news coverage. One-upmanship
to see who can be talked about the most. Who can get the most ‘likes’ or ‘shares’,
as though that was hard. One click isn’t much of an effort if you ask me. What
is hard, is tackling a few of the many issues our countries are facing, like
internet security, economic stability and public health. How about curing
cancer or finding a way to travel fast enough that space becomes the new
frontier. We are fast using up this planet, if we don’t figure out how to go
elsewhere soon things could get very ugly here.
Before the age of the internet you actually had to actually do
something to get your name posted all over the news. Like landing on the moon,
and returning back home safely. That was news. It was worthy of our attention.
Now all we have is a lot of huffing and puffing and very little or nothing to
show for it. Like the country song, what we all need is a little less talk and
a lot more action. I would say a lot less talk.