Sunday, April 8, 2012

Sense Of Order vs Sense Of Chaos

Without prejudice, I know the pen is a mightier than the sword so I will refrain from statements of unqualifying opinions. Haha! Since I do not have any benchmarks to measure this opinion against, it remains a debatable paper for research. 
As I started writing this blog, a friend called me....my thought process got in chaos mode, lol. I needed to recollect my senses from whence do I begin & from whence do I end? 
I begin with the topic at my disposal & I draw reference to the use of photoshop. As in all things, there's good sensing vs evil sensing. I have always viewed this piece of software as a thing without integrity likened to whoever created it. In recent times, in coming to my senses, I realized that I was just so wrong. What struck me was  a particular picture taken out by a reputable photographer who works for a reputable agency! This photo was a pool with three kids who are minors in the Beetham area in Trinidad circulating in a social media website for the world to view. I wondered to myself as so many folks complimented and praised the photographer & the photo.
1) Did the photographer obtain written consent from the kids' parents to circulate in social media this photo, with the absence of adults?
2) According to the UN convention on the rights of a child, section 16, every child has a right to privacy.
http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf
The sense of chaos seems so unqualified since it could not seemingly decipher right from wrong as all either complimented the photo for a front page magazine, or criticized the priorities of the parents & whether the child had a right to that level of happiness deemed a luxury by some given their poverty conditions.
The sense of order had not yet recognized that photoshop was useful here to blur the faces of the minors as each kid had not received parental consent, was not in public space as the pool was outside their one bedroom home & not a single adult was present in the picture. The picture had been circulating in a social media site, so where is the privacy rights of the child or the consent form?
Out of a sense of chaos came a sense of order! Photoshop software can provide justice & integrity to help rule the world as in this case for child privacy rights :)
Another case with esteemed interest of order sensing vs chaos sensing lie in the case of the Vatican's Pope Benedict XVI money laundering accusation by the Obamacare administration. The order lies in the US administration of justice laying down the rules for justice in American soil to allow abortion, contraception, gay marriages & revamping of American values according to Glen Beck's report, 'we are all Catholics now'. Herein lies a sense of chaos, we must hang together as Catholics otherwise we will all hang separately. The Pope recently elevated 22 cardinals all of whom are conservatives consistent with the ideologies of the church on family life & moral spiritual values. In so doing, he is preparing for spiritual & physical battle according to Glen Beck. Hilary Clinton stated that the US was there to help fight narcotics in a strategy report where the Vatican is included in a money laundering report. Money moving out of US into the Vatican was of concern to the federal bureau. Glen Beck stated that Catholics must now take sides to fight evil. Will the Pope go into exile from the Vatican? 
Time reveals the unknown ;)

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