Thursday, April 19, 2012

KONY 2012

People are very narrow minded and gullible. Most of us know by know about the Joseph Kony(warning may contain somewhat graphic images) killings. First of I would like to say that I am all for stopping Kony. However the sheer empathy that these people felt was appalling. There are millions of other of problems facing the world but because somebody rapped the solution in a pretty bow thousands of people and millions of dollars were spent on the projects for these people.
"More children die of malaria, diarrhea, and nodding disease in northern Uganda on a daily basis than the monthly average of Kony's 25 years of killing" reported CNN news article. If half the man power or even 1/3 of the money was spent solving world hunger the world would be much better. The sad part is our generation has grown up with these problems, so we consider them a fact of life. Once we realize that we can think for ourselves we won't need to blindly follow anybody. Again, I would like to say that I am a full supporter of TRI, I just think I can support more valuable movements.

By Gio Aboujaoude
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 20, 2012 at 11:32 AM

    I agree with your idea that people can be incredibly stupid. It's also true that we consider hunger as something normal, and part of daily life, so nobody is doing anything about it. Its a fact now that hunger is definitely something that should be dealt with, since it has been a problem for such a long time. I also agree that people tend to "be the sheep and not the shepherd."

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  2. AnonymousApril 20, 2012 at 11:45 AM

    It is sad that there are many worse conditions than the conditions that they are seeing right now. The worse thing is that people don't know that these people actually exist 'till somebody actually decides to make them public.

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  3. AnonymousApril 23, 2012 at 11:30 AM

    I disagree with you here. What we need to do is not say "if this was done this way..." Of course, the children dying in Uganda because of multiple diseases are very important also. But that doesn't mean that instead of Project Kony, we should be focusing on them. Jason Russell has done an awesome job with his project, and I think that he is a perfect example for people that want to help the dying children in Uganda to follow. We as human beings shouldn't set our goal on supporting the "more valuable movements" but focusing on having several of these movements to solve problems around the world.

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  4. AnonymousApril 24, 2012 at 7:02 AM

    I wish this Invisible Children's project succeeded so they can work on many other international problems, but now people do not seem interested and passionate in this event as they were just a month ago.

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