Understand the World You Live In--Care Enough to Uncover the Truth

Its days like this where I seriously question what our society has become.

For those of you who are:

• browsing Facebook for the 3rd straight hour in a row looking at random people's pictures,
• watching mindless shows filled with love, sex, lies, and drama that you waited all week to watch,
• obsessing about how sexy Jacob Black looked in New Moon (for all you Twihard fans out there, you may want to read my previous post,)
• procrastinating, once again, on the paper you need to write by tomorrow, although you had all semester to write it,
• going out for the 7th time this week to hang out with the same people to do the same thing because you'd rather be anywhere but home,

AND, you had no idea that President Obama gave a speech today announcing his plan to order an additional 30,000 troops to invade Afghanistan towards the war against al-Qaida.....this post, this one right here, is for you.

Let me start by saying that lazy, ignorant, foolish, uneducated people, such as yourself, utterly disgust me.

It disgusts me how little people know about what is going on in the world, and put more input into deciding their Facebook status than forming their own opinions. It concerns me how so many people would rather hear about celebrities and their extramarital affairs or their trips to rehab rather than hear about what is happening on Capitol Hill. It frightens me how people just don't care, as long as it doesn't directly and negatively affect them.

Whether you work at a law firm or at a gas station--you're a housewife or a single mother--whether you're in high school or in graduate school...I can't stress how important it is for you to form your own opinions, and are aware of what is happening in the world.

One cannot complain, cannot provide input and cannot have an opinion unless they fully understand the situation. We live in a culture where news and information are at our fingertips, and live in a country that has so much influence and power within the world that our opinions have a much louder voice than others. Yet, people still don't bother to care.

BUT, when someone looses their job and stops receiving unemployment checks, when someone gets kicked off welfare, when someone thinks the government owes them something, when someone is informed their taxes increased due to the war, when an illegal alien is deported, or when someone doesn't get a stimulus check when their neighbor did....this, THIS is when they start to care.

And that my friends, is quite pathetic.

This post is not meant to reveal my opinions towards President Obama's speech, or to convince and inform you of my own political beliefs and ideologies. But instead, this post is meant to encourage those of you who are ignorant of current political and economic situations to educate yourself and form an opinion...and once this opinion is formed, fight for it.

Because at the end of the day, you can't expect to see a change in the world until you first make one within yourself.