Tragedies have a tendency to bring out extreme jerkdom in people. Here is a blogger suggesting the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is a great thing:
In a moment dominated by the radical adoption of new technology, with reports of the NSA’s massive snooping, talk of Amazon drones making deliveries like toilet paper door to your doorstep, or checking the status of a flight through a pair of Google glasses, we need to feel that there is at least something out there that the grand orchestra of satellites and supercomputers can’t find or figure out.
It’s more than a tad ironic, but apropos, that it took a missing airplane—one of man’s greatest technological innovations—to remind us that there’s still some mystery left to humanity.
Who cares about the suffering of people when we can chirp happily about Google, Amazon, NSA, and toilet paper?

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