what nonsense. what utter nonsense.

We are having a hard time even getting people to tag our charity site, blogofdreams.com, as a favorite on Technorati so we can attract advertisers. We ask for no money, just a few seconds of time…

I see the lack of blogger response as symptomatic of the frustration felt by many that what they write will have little or no impact.

The western media has effectively demonized China to the point that we can no longer see the ordinary Chinese citizen suffering in these mega-disasters. Add to that China’s face-saving lack of reporting, the immensity of growing hardships on the rural poor and the world 9to include China) is becoming emotionally desensitized to grief and hence, increasingly hard to motivate to action.

Another of my students, aged 22, died this week from Leukemia. The school did not even pass on a sympathy note to parents. Five of his classmates are similarly afflicted and without resources for treatment. There are a lot of people here losing hope and a lot of bloggers removing their black armbands because nobody seems to notice them anymore.

I am proud of folks like you, Danwei, The Humanaught and others who continue to care.