Two of yesterday's bbc headlines: Black Friday bonanza and a shooting in Oxford Circus, London (Britain) 230 people shot dead in a mosque (in Sinai, Egypt) The one on the shooting in Oxford Circus is the main headline with a large photo. Next to it a small phone of the shooting in Sinai. The BBC after all is a national corporation of a nation state. Local news, however minor they are, are more important. What happens in other countries, especially in places where the victims are not Westerners is of a less importance. Another legacy of what the nation state has made of us. The same conclusion persists: Some lives are more precious than others. Black Friday bonanza is also significantly important because it reflects "our way of life".
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51