All those places seem far off and distant to a lot of people… just “noise”. In all of those cases those things dismissed as noise were the sounds of millions o

All those places seem far off and distant to a lot of people… just “noise”. In all of those cases those things dismissed as noise were the sounds of millions of peoples lives being torn apart. But yes far away and distant - oh unless one’s relatives were fleeing their soon to be bombed homes like my Syrian American coworker. To be able to ignore those events is only for the lucky - but can (for now) doesn’t mean should. Even the lucky should not ignore them. Also I say “for now”, because in most cases the far off events quickly influence local events - many of those are directly effecting American border communities, and also national politics through a nationalistic platform by a party.