The double-standard between the wall-to-wall coverage of the implosion of The Titan and the short shrift that the deaths of over 500 migrants received at the hands of the global networks re-echo the Shakespearean line about beggars, comets and the deaths of princes. Only that Shakespeare could not have seen that modern networks could sometimes make comets for their own princes.
It doesn’t make sense to weigh tragedies on a scale. How do you measure them? Leo Tolstoy got it…
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