The Passenger by Andrew Rice

Up until now, the only book I've read of Ryszard Kapuscinski is The Soccer War. At first many events seemed real, their cause pathetic and in some cases the actions taken petrifying. After reading Andrew Rice's Article The Passenger, he makes one think how real is the story told by Kapuscinski. Has all the truth been revealed? Or have we been sucked into a historic novel? Many events might be told as occurred, but maybe along the road someone believed the true story would not sell and decided to add some "tiny" details. This has happened before with other writers, if Kapuscinski is one of them, to bad. In the real world he's trying to sell. There is a section of this article that I could identify with because Mr. Rice explains how Ryszard Kapuscinski makes you one live the situation he is describing. The communist accusation against Kapuscinski comes at a very random moment. Of course during the 60's and 70's it was a sort of "treason" against ones country, but we live in a new era, where supposedly different ideas are accepted as long as no harm is brought upon humanity. Maybe I'm right or it's just another lie one would like to believe. Rice has a very opened mind to different subjects, one can notice that he doesn't swallow whole any story and thinks on every single detail before believing everything someone can say. Kapuscinski-according to the article- explains how the different tribes of the world will never meet each other and might never exchange their differences. That's not true today, but in the past it might of been. During the past twenty years-I believe- the world has experienced one of its greatest accomplishments for some and catastrophes for others it all depends on how you look at it. Globalization for example has led almost all of the world's communities to "learn" something from one another. Every single day we learn something new. Most of the times it's information provided to us by other "tribes." Information moves at powerful speeds and distances, from all over the world. What you would learn a week from know in the early 30's or 40's, is a sixty second (or less) journey on the Internet. Humanities accomplishments. This would be the only topic which I disagree with Kapuscinski not Andrew Rice. The rest of the article was incredible, every single subject was dealt with caution and most important reason.