The Beginning of the Beginning

Tonight, on the 1st of September of 2008, in two cities of the world, we decided to create this website. And here we are doing it, just a few minutes after the idea was born.
Things have become really fast these days. Now, thanks to the advance of technology, you can read or watch the news nearly at the very time they happen, get in touch with people all across the globe with no waiting, as well as destroying huge forest areas or killing hundreds of people in the blink of an eye. We're not happy with a large part of these speed incresings at all, but we believe we can use the good side of it to wonder about and fight the bad one (as well as much olders problems of the world), be it by collecting information about them, exposing points of views of ourselves and of other people we admire, and eventually getting to know opinions by anyone who visits us. For this all we may use researches, new ideas, images, song lyrics, all sort of thing, we're not sure yet, but certainly keeping the same goal of trying to do something about today's world's main problems.
As we believe a huge part of them are somehow due to the fact that people don't usually care much about other people and things that aren't close to them, we decided to quote the title of Phil Ochs' song as our own. You're not that worried with war in the Middle East if you live in South America; hunger in Africa doesn't really bother you if you're in Europe; the destruction of the Amazon forest aren't such a big deal for you if you have a farm, and so on. We don't think it works well like this. Of course, it doesn't explain everything, many people don't care much about things that directly affect them either, and we believe it's either because of have no hope things can get better or because they just don't know how to start changing things (or both, of course). It's not on our title but we'll talk about these things to.

Thank you very much if you could stand reading all this, we hope the next posts get more practial and interestig.

Raquel & Caio - Outside of a Small Circle of Friends.