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So there's a trend on facebook about donating your status to a cause. Obama's supporters did it, for instance, to spread awareness and show support. If it looks like he's gonna win, he'll win. That was the thought, anyway. Thankfully it worked. Lately I've been seeing a ton for Gaza. I don't talk about Israel much at all with anyone at this school. I don't alk about it much at all with anyone. Why?
I don't care.
People seem to love the Humanitarian Crisis of the Week. Food shortages, disease outbreaks, but man, do they love a good genocide or conquest. Why weren't people as pissed when Russia invaded Georgia? What, are ex-soviet states less sympathetic? The people living below the poverty line in America aren't as worthy of your support? The millions of uninsured aren't going to make you look as worldly. No, better to support people in a another land by going to rallies with other like minded individuals so you can all stroke one another's egos. Hell, those "protests" are more social events than anything. True protests get things done. Look at France. When people talk, the government listens. And if they don't, people have the power to shut everything down. Strikes are awesome like that. Student strikes in America? Oh heaven forbid. No, no, it's much more effective to sit at your computer and type furiously for support! That will get plenty done.
The next play I want to do... I know what the theme will be. When people stop caring. Point out the hypocrisy. If people from Gaza are killed, it's a travesty, but when people in America die, it's a statistic. If you truly cared about every death in the world, you'd go mad with grief. I want to somehow point out that eventually every picks and chooses whose life means something and whose does not. The families living in squalor in your own home town never occur to you. But that steadily rising number in Gaza means the world. Cowards.
This leads me to my second annoyance. Conquest. When did it stop being cool? I mean, I may be naive. It's possible. But it seems to me that two groups who don't agree on anything are going to be really good at intellectual debate. No one wins a debate by changing the minds of the other side. They just convince everyone watching that the other side is wrong. Someone's still going to feel wronged at the end of it all. Conflict will always exist. That is, until Aliens are discovered. Then we'll kill them and have a unified world government. Honestly, if there was an extraterrestrial threat, do you know how fast we'd put aside our differences? The other option is a world wide psychic convergence where we all see one another as having a shared a common history in a very meaningful way. These are the only two ways you'll see conflict end on this planet.
I don't care.
People seem to love the Humanitarian Crisis of the Week. Food shortages, disease outbreaks, but man, do they love a good genocide or conquest. Why weren't people as pissed when Russia invaded Georgia? What, are ex-soviet states less sympathetic? The people living below the poverty line in America aren't as worthy of your support? The millions of uninsured aren't going to make you look as worldly. No, better to support people in a another land by going to rallies with other like minded individuals so you can all stroke one another's egos. Hell, those "protests" are more social events than anything. True protests get things done. Look at France. When people talk, the government listens. And if they don't, people have the power to shut everything down. Strikes are awesome like that. Student strikes in America? Oh heaven forbid. No, no, it's much more effective to sit at your computer and type furiously for support! That will get plenty done.
The next play I want to do... I know what the theme will be. When people stop caring. Point out the hypocrisy. If people from Gaza are killed, it's a travesty, but when people in America die, it's a statistic. If you truly cared about every death in the world, you'd go mad with grief. I want to somehow point out that eventually every picks and chooses whose life means something and whose does not. The families living in squalor in your own home town never occur to you. But that steadily rising number in Gaza means the world. Cowards.
This leads me to my second annoyance. Conquest. When did it stop being cool? I mean, I may be naive. It's possible. But it seems to me that two groups who don't agree on anything are going to be really good at intellectual debate. No one wins a debate by changing the minds of the other side. They just convince everyone watching that the other side is wrong. Someone's still going to feel wronged at the end of it all. Conflict will always exist. That is, until Aliens are discovered. Then we'll kill them and have a unified world government. Honestly, if there was an extraterrestrial threat, do you know how fast we'd put aside our differences? The other option is a world wide psychic convergence where we all see one another as having a shared a common history in a very meaningful way. These are the only two ways you'll see conflict end on this planet.