The importance of nuance

Noah, I want you to know that the world is awash with misunderstanding and misinterpretation. By the time you come to read this, I am fully sure that you will already know this to be a stone cold fact. You, unfortunately, will be intelligent and literate enough to know the truth in what I say here.

You can't move in the the news for vapid news stories that are sensationalised beyond any kind of recognition. You will see that the nation loses their minds when, say, there is a royal baby being born or a young pop star pees into a bucket, but any real news, any real issues that require some real thought don't generate any traction. Something real like the burial of hundreds of live women and children in a remote city in Iraq, people don't give a flying fuck about. Ignorance is everywhere.

We wrote a blog a couple of months ago about a leaflet we got through the post. It was about a very serious subject - the tragic deaths of babies by suffocation on nappy sacks - but it was badly put together. This dichotomy was funny to us so we wrote a blog about it. You can find it if you like.

Any fair-minded reading of this entry will see that we were finding humour in the ill-thought out, badly worded leaflet. At no point did we even begin to suggest that these tragedies are, themselves, inherently funny. Any proper reading of this will see that fact in its abundance.

Sadly, not everyone is capable of recognising this nuance, Noah. Just read the silly comments that people have written for the sad proof of the world we are living in.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-crisis-islamic-militants-buried-alive-yazidi-women-and-children-in-attack-that-killed-500-9659695.html