Have you ever...?

[Junket]

Look, you don't even know me.

It seems its always the race about who is better, who has done more, no matter the topic.


Oh, and I wasn't talking about people in particlular. And as i see you have failed to see my point, there is no reason for asking another questions, I already got the answer. Whats wrong with making a thread, it wasn't even bitching, all i did was asking a simple question, and you are here to answer it. Did your life collapse because of this thread or something?

You know what helped me through depression? Its not the thought 'its the others', it was the thought that me too am in this chainring and I can make a difference. Even by making this thread I already made a difference because somebody is probably reading it and thinking about it. This is the way how moral grows.

No, I'm just calling you out on your shit. This act you put on to suggest you're the poor soul who bears the weight of the world. Like you're the only one who truly "cares" to understand all of the injustice.

You're part of the "chainring" of people who have all these fantastic and admirable ideas, and little more. You think you made a difference with this thread? Just because somebody in a far away land nods their head and says "Yeah! I agree with that!", right before they run out to Starbucks for a latte? Everybody and their mother are on-line revolutionaries.

I myself am disappointed in my lack of effort in continuing my service the past 6 months, though that may change soon.

And you know what? Why not let it be a race? Maybe then people would feel some striving force to do something good?

Maybe then people wouldn't sit at home feeling so small and hopeless in this societal machine. In fact, it only makes sense that some of the craziest, and idealistic people I've ever met, were volunteers. People that would work straight months at a time because they too felt all the perceived injustices, and would run themselves into the ground trying to right all the wrongs. I can't say they always succeeded.

Many have given up, or toned down their level of commitment. Sometimes the victories are short lived, or sometimes they didn't stick around long enough to see the fruits of their labor. But more often than not, they made a difference to someone.

It doesn't end, and it never will, just like many things in this life, but since when did that keep people from trying, anyway?

So how about this, why don't you stop crying and being depressed, and go do something about it, and stop wasting your energy trying to show people something they're already aware of? It's like trying to "raise awareness" about breast cancer.

[lastwish]

Why should I be ashamed of being human when I didn't make that choice myself?

[anachronistic]

I'd like to do some work in Russia and Africa. Maybe I'll get the opportunity with my college some summer.

[Illusional]

You mean your real life friends? Or the people on the forums?

just people in general.. i'm surrounded by idiots.

raverboy

[DoesntMatter]

I get angry when I hear about efforts in the US to bring educational materials to places in rural China and shit like that. How about helping people in our own country first? Those bastards aren't sending help to rural Mississippi, and here some assholes are in this country helping THEM preferentially? Leave and die

[DoesntMatter]

I wish I lived in the Third Reich, I would have helped the Axis bring the world to its knees

Maybe I'll be around for WW3

[anachronistic]

The 4th Reich!!! ohnos!!!111

[IndiReloaded]

I get angry when I hear about efforts in the US to bring educational materials to places in rural China and shit like that. How about helping people in our own country first? Those bastards aren't sending help to rural Mississippi, and here some assholes are in this country helping THEM preferentially? Leave and die

While I understand your sentiment, the truth, as always, is somewhat more in the middle:

[url]http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/08/content_476014.htm[/url]

[boobaa]

No, I'm just calling you out on your shit. This act you put on to suggest you're the poor soul who bears the weight of the world. Like you're the only one who truly "cares" to understand all of the injustice.

These are your words. I am not even going to answer this.

[Tedel]

The only ashaming thing I find in mankind is how easily they buy stupid tales...

"buy this and you'll be happier!"
"buy this and you'll change the world!"
"I'll make a difference, come follow me!"

crap.

[IndiReloaded]

I can't find her on youtube, but Dar Williams has a great song about this called 'Bought & Sold'

And We're Heading For A Nasty Business, Keeps Our Country Growing
Where The Weapons That We're Selling Are The Only Seeds We're Sowing
You Get To Blow The Fruits Of All Your Labors
Sell F-16'S To All The Neighbors

And You Can Say They're Out To Hunt You
You Can Say They're Out To Fish You
You Can Join A Gang Of Restless Boys
Or Start Your Own Militia
You Can Even Say Your Violence Is All Your Own
It's Bought And Sold, It's Bought And Sold

If you want to listen, try here:

[url]http://www.last.fm/music/Dar+Williams/_/Bought+and+Sold?autostart[/url]

[Mish]

Alexander Zolzhenitsyn had an interesting paragraph which I think is somewhat close to this subject matter:

There is an illusion out there that in existance are two kinds of people, the good ones and the evil ones. The good ones only do good and evils ones only do the evil deeds and the only thing to do to make the world a better place is to find the evil ones and eliminate them. But the line seperating the good and evil crosses the heart of every human being and who will destroy a piece of their own heart?

During a course of a lifetime this line moves around ones heart, sometimes delighted by evil, sometimes freed by growing good. The same person, in different situations and different ages can be completely different. But the name remains the same and we often identify that name with unproportional good or unproportional evil.