Underlying Significance of Project Kony
So, I actually did get around to watching this Kony documentary. Before I watched it, my main impression was that it was just another cause that people we going for. I'd seen them in the past as people. Mainly LiNK. I'm the type of person that has to feel some tangible outcome from what I put in to make it worth my while so I didn't think much of LiNK nor Kony. For the most part, I was right. It was a video for some cause in a distant country that had a terrible problem that honestly, I could care less about. My view of the world is very subjective. I choose not to meddle in politics and whatnot because it is time wasted to me. However, there's a greater message besides taking down Kony that the documentary brought up briefly.
I had been thinking about writing about how great the internet was for a while and had some great ideas on why it is the greatest invention. Watching Kony kind of just wrapped it all together for me in my head. Everything just kind of clicked and brought together all the thoughts I had. With the internet, we, the young adults and the youth finally have an international voice. I personally believe that people our age and younger see the problems of the world most acutely. We have yet to be really tainted by the chase of money, power, politics, and each generation is more and more tolerant of different cultures because the internet is such a vast well of information on other cultures. By informing ourselves of different cultures we can better prepare our minds and empathize with others. In the past, we feared others and fought them because we, as humans, fear the unknown. Right now, we live in a very crucial period of time. I'm glad to be in this era. In our lifetime, mankind will either falter with the new technologies at hand because of old traditions that die hard or will be ushered into a new age of solidarity via empathy and compassion. The policy makers and politics are mainly full of people that lived what was a sheltered and information desert by today's comparisons. Nobody seems to really care about the real problems going on. This leads us to Kony.
Yet another sad story of how a bad man is doing bad things in a faraway country. We must stop him! Of course, him and every other person that is a parasite to society. From Kony to the crooks in suits, they must all be stopped. I always had a feeling of helplessness against these kinds of things. I am just one person, and I'd honestly rather spend my time doing things that will make quicker results. I was ready to pass Kony off as just an interesting watch. Midway through the documentary, it brought up how we are the ones that have to do something. Everybody on this planet is our family. Brothers and sisters through species. Via the internet, we know have a tool of communication to express our distaste of the many vile spectacles on the planet. The way I see it, Kony is an experiment to see if the youth can make a difference and whether or not they will keep the ball rolling with other issues. We've already seen much of this already happening with Anonymous, Egypt, Greece, and Occupy. All of these were spearheaded by savvy young people with the know-how on spreading viral information via social networks.
I'm gonna stop here since I gotta go to sleep. My writing is rusty. I feel like I went off-topic too much and repeated things I've already said.
Lucid lucid lucid. Still hasn't happened. Almost two months of dreams and not one lucid. I did have a fun zipline adventure over a waterfall though.
Work work work. Not nearly as happy at work anymore. I think it's because I'm having to suppress the kind of person I am there around my co-workers. I hate having to put up a facade as a serious (as serious as I can be) manager in front of them. I just wanna be me. But I can't.
School school school. All smiles. Too easy when you're learning something you love.
I've had a recent surge of energy to try and just experience all I can. I'm going to be focusing on food and music. I'm gonna try new cuisines at least once a week. Shouldn't be too hard. Yelp! makes it easy. For music, I'm going to keep searching for new music to listen to often. Also lots more concerts. Of course, gonna go fucked up just cuz it's more fun that way. I'm still young, got lots of life... I just work a lot.
It will involve a music box when I ask.
BE LUCID
-edit
Aha! This is pretty close to what I was saying just now.
I had been thinking about writing about how great the internet was for a while and had some great ideas on why it is the greatest invention. Watching Kony kind of just wrapped it all together for me in my head. Everything just kind of clicked and brought together all the thoughts I had. With the internet, we, the young adults and the youth finally have an international voice. I personally believe that people our age and younger see the problems of the world most acutely. We have yet to be really tainted by the chase of money, power, politics, and each generation is more and more tolerant of different cultures because the internet is such a vast well of information on other cultures. By informing ourselves of different cultures we can better prepare our minds and empathize with others. In the past, we feared others and fought them because we, as humans, fear the unknown. Right now, we live in a very crucial period of time. I'm glad to be in this era. In our lifetime, mankind will either falter with the new technologies at hand because of old traditions that die hard or will be ushered into a new age of solidarity via empathy and compassion. The policy makers and politics are mainly full of people that lived what was a sheltered and information desert by today's comparisons. Nobody seems to really care about the real problems going on. This leads us to Kony.
Yet another sad story of how a bad man is doing bad things in a faraway country. We must stop him! Of course, him and every other person that is a parasite to society. From Kony to the crooks in suits, they must all be stopped. I always had a feeling of helplessness against these kinds of things. I am just one person, and I'd honestly rather spend my time doing things that will make quicker results. I was ready to pass Kony off as just an interesting watch. Midway through the documentary, it brought up how we are the ones that have to do something. Everybody on this planet is our family. Brothers and sisters through species. Via the internet, we know have a tool of communication to express our distaste of the many vile spectacles on the planet. The way I see it, Kony is an experiment to see if the youth can make a difference and whether or not they will keep the ball rolling with other issues. We've already seen much of this already happening with Anonymous, Egypt, Greece, and Occupy. All of these were spearheaded by savvy young people with the know-how on spreading viral information via social networks.
I'm gonna stop here since I gotta go to sleep. My writing is rusty. I feel like I went off-topic too much and repeated things I've already said.
Lucid lucid lucid. Still hasn't happened. Almost two months of dreams and not one lucid. I did have a fun zipline adventure over a waterfall though.
Work work work. Not nearly as happy at work anymore. I think it's because I'm having to suppress the kind of person I am there around my co-workers. I hate having to put up a facade as a serious (as serious as I can be) manager in front of them. I just wanna be me. But I can't.
School school school. All smiles. Too easy when you're learning something you love.
I've had a recent surge of energy to try and just experience all I can. I'm going to be focusing on food and music. I'm gonna try new cuisines at least once a week. Shouldn't be too hard. Yelp! makes it easy. For music, I'm going to keep searching for new music to listen to often. Also lots more concerts. Of course, gonna go fucked up just cuz it's more fun that way. I'm still young, got lots of life... I just work a lot.
It will involve a music box when I ask.
BE LUCID
-edit
Aha! This is pretty close to what I was saying just now.
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