{"id":650,"date":"2024-08-06T04:45:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T20:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gen-e-sis.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/06\/fries-with-that\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:24:27","slug":"do-you-want-fries-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/do-you-want-fries-with-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Want Fries With That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"918\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/do-you-want-fries-with-that\/vulture-child-512\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vulture-child-512.png\" data-orig-size=\"512,512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"vulture-child-512\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vulture-child-512-300x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vulture-child-512.png\" src=\"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vulture-child-512-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vulture-child-512-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vulture-child-512-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vulture-child-512.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<span class=\"voice-tag\">Moral Detachment and Global Crisis<\/span>\n<div class=\"post-intro\">\n  <p>\n    Vultures, famine, fake tan \u2014 this post asks where your outrage lands when tragedy meets apathy. Global warming? World hunger? Or just fries? It\u2019s a buffet of ethical dissonance, served with a side of climate denial and influencer indifference. Warning: may contain traces of moral whiplash and lukewarm compassion.\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The photo is the Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards an united nations food camp, located a kilometer away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it. The picture shocked the whole world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter, who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ground is probably warm.<br>The vulture is probably an endangered species.<br>The child is probably dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where should the focus lie?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>global warming?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>endangered species?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>world hunger?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What? Question too hard for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<br>What a mess the world is in<br>I wonder who began it<br>Don\u2019t ask me<br>I\u2019m only visiting this planet<br>(Larry Norman)<br>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which reminds me. I need to buy some more fake tan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"italic\">(Originally posted 22 September 2007)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beelzebub: A Memoir (Circles in Hell)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"678\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_DQPwc5Aqffk9yc&#038;asin=1089881029&#038;tag=genesiscom-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vultures, famine, fake tan \u2014 this post asks where your outrage lands when tragedy meets apathy. Global warming? World hunger? Or just fries? It\u2019s a buffet of ethical dissonance, served with a side of climate denial and influencer indifference. 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