Thought For Food
The phrase food for thought is defined as “something that warrants deep consideration.” Its underlying meaning is that the brain literally needs food to think deeply and clearly. In America, grocery stores and fast food restaurants have made sure there is no scarcity of food. We have the luxury to move past basic human needs and instincts to focus on thought: placing high importance on figuring ourselves out, examining the past, and pondering what’s missing in our lives and are we happy? We have become desensitized to the fact that others in the world still remain at the food stage.
The biggest untold story is global poverty. The mainstream media rarely covers this. It isn’t part of their agenda – perhaps because there is no clear- cut solution and no one person to blame for the crisis. However, by sweeping it under the rug, the media must realize that in the future global poverty will still exist there are no voices for the more than 3 billion people living on less than $2.50 a day. If only the media asked, what lessons can citizens of the developing world teach us? What makes their lives meaningful? And finally how can Americans help? Maybe we need to modify the expression to thought for food.
If the media did cover global poverty would we tune in or flip the channel to watch how the 1% lives on The Real Housewives or Keeping up with the Kardashians? It’s indisputable that these shows require little thought and that global poverty solutions require deep consideration. In a time of self-absorption and instant gratification, the long-term poverty of others is on the back burner. If you reflect on how almost half the world lives on less than $2.50 a day and 22,000 children die each day because of poverty, would you care? More specifically, would you care enough to make a difference?
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