The confusing jargon. Humongous numbers are released to distract attention from what matters, and concentrate on the banality of a speech. Here's an example:
Twelve million children under 5 die each year from diarrhea, anemia and other diseases related to hunger. UNICEF proposes that the fight against this scourge of hunger becomes a priority, and it uses this argument:
"the deficiencies of vitamins and minerals in food cost some countries the equivalent of more than 5% of gross national product in lost lives, disability and reduced productivity. "
The frightening reality of the world, but our minds are not capable of recording the seriousness of the facts, they play hide and seek in the mouths of those who utter these huge figures full of zeros.
But things can be simplified and understood in all its magnitude, when extrapolating the data to a reduced scale.
This is a video that shows how the real world would be if it were a village of 100 people.
A figure in particular moved me: 6 people have in their hands 59% of wealth.
Watch and comment.
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