a humbling statement

And I’m afraid a rock concert every 20 years isn’t enough. Perhaps what we need instead are a thousand “town criers” like Bob Barker, the venerable game show host who closes every Price is Right with an admonition to “spay or neuter your pet. "If we ended every TV broadcast, from Good Morning America to Six Feet Under, with "every day 35 million children die of extreme poverty" or “the average per capita yearly income in Sri Lanka is $880,” or “the infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births in Angola is 187,” this apathetic (and often selfish) country might finally come to realize how the other half lives.

from emagazines "Poverty is terrorism"