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IT ISN'T ONE WORLD ANYMORE.
Probably it never was, except in fantasy.
From certain perspectives it may look like one world. Remember your reaction to that spectacular first television picture of the world beamed from the Apollo spacecraft two hundred thousand miles away? Suspended in the inky blackness was our Earth, painted in azure and overlaid with brushstrokes of clouds, dazzling our eyes with what seemed to be its pristine beauty.
It was almost too pretty, and you probably said, "It looks unreal."
You were right. It is.
From that distance the world looked whole. The fractures didn't show. From the moon it's hard to see the world's broken and hurting realities.
But it is also possible to ignore them from a lesser distance. Just an ocean away. Or a city block. Especially if you live in an affluent global subdivision which has been psychologically fenced and screened against the disturbing sight of starved, emaciated bodies and lulled with Muzak to cover the cries of hungry children. Thus snug in our cocoon of self-imposed and unreal isolation we can pretend that it is still "one world"-if, indeed, it ever was.
ISBN:WHATDOYOUSAYT
