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Garbage, cats, and the children of God.
Have you ever heard of triage? It's a system medics have for handling the wounded. They divide the injured into three groups: 1) the necessarily hopeless, 2) those to be saved by immediate treatment, and 3) those whose treatment can be postponed.
Some population experts are now applying triage to food supplies for whole nations and subcontinents for the 1980s. As applied, some groups must be labeled "necessarily hopeless." Others will have to wait a while longer to eat. Some will be given precious food and treatment.
It all seems rather ghastly and unreal, like something Edgar Allen Poe would write about. The only thing that makes it hard to forget is the date. It's not that far away.
A million times tonight wives will ask their husbands to feed the cat and put the garbage out. Both garbage and cats sound like they could become something of a fond memory before this decade is out! The point of all this information is simply twofold. First, to remind us once again, as a new year breaks, to get our priorities straight, and second to discover what it means in the physical world to know we are children of God (vs. 12), and therefore, related to all victims of the triage nightmare.
-- Bansemer
Garbage, cats, and the children of God.
Have you ever heard of triage? It's a system medics have for handling the wounded. They divide the injured into three groups: 1) the necessarily hopeless, 2) those to be saved by immediate treatment, and 3) those whose treatment can be postponed.
Some population experts are now applying triage to food supplies for whole nations and subcontinents for the 1980s. As applied, some groups must be labeled "necessarily hopeless." Others will have to wait a while longer to eat. Some will be given precious food and treatment.
It all seems rather ghastly and unreal, like something Edgar Allen Poe would write about. The only thing that makes it hard to forget is the date. It's not that far away.
A million times tonight wives will ask their husbands to feed the cat and put the garbage out. Both garbage and cats sound like they could become something of a fond memory before this decade is out! The point of all this information is simply twofold. First, to remind us once again, as a new year breaks, to get our priorities straight, and second to discover what it means in the physical world to know we are children of God (vs. 12), and therefore, related to all victims of the triage nightmare.
-- Bansemer
