08 Mar 12, 04:48AM
"If this is the first you've ever heard of Joseph Kony, you shouldn't pretend you're really concerned about all of this."
All this sensationalism and enthusiasm (dare I say zealotry?), especially in this age of near-instant communication, is only serving to deter people from supporting this cause. Instead, it has become more popular (and rightfully so) to mock the people who do support it for the ways in which they support it, e.g. sharing a facebook status.
It's unfortunate that human nature is this way, but Joseph Kony might as well not exist, as far as I am concerned. That is, of course, unless I have some other moral flaws I wish to distract myself from.
What I am trying to say is not that we shouldn't care what people do to other people, it's that if people took all the time they spend pretending to care about something that they cannot affect in any way, and instead spent all this time on improving themselves and their own character (which they can affect), we wouldn't have to worry about how people treat other people.
All this sensationalism and enthusiasm (dare I say zealotry?), especially in this age of near-instant communication, is only serving to deter people from supporting this cause. Instead, it has become more popular (and rightfully so) to mock the people who do support it for the ways in which they support it, e.g. sharing a facebook status.
It's unfortunate that human nature is this way, but Joseph Kony might as well not exist, as far as I am concerned. That is, of course, unless I have some other moral flaws I wish to distract myself from.
What I am trying to say is not that we shouldn't care what people do to other people, it's that if people took all the time they spend pretending to care about something that they cannot affect in any way, and instead spent all this time on improving themselves and their own character (which they can affect), we wouldn't have to worry about how people treat other people.