Here folks, is an opportunity too good to pass up to illustrate one of my main points, that we have lost our focus.
Recently, UNI (my college) beat Kansas University in college basketball. It was all over the news here, and for good reason, it was apparently quite exciting and unprecedented. On my Facebook, I can only begin to express the amount of content that was being dedicated to this upset. Pages upon pages of people posting their ecstatic support for the UNI team, and groups and fan pages popping up left and right. In a matter of hours, the entire recent activity of the site (At least in my network) was nearly 100% dedicated to the upset. March 20th.
Even more recently a political upset occurs, passing perhaps the 3rd most influential health care bill in the history of the U.S. I hear the news, all excited, and come back to check my Facebook… Silent. Dead. Not a single person in the last two hours had said ANYTHING about this landmark event. Why is this? I respect that we are entitled to enjoy our play, but honestly, there is a time and a place to care about the serious things as well that have a HUGE impact on our society. It’s irresponsible, childish, and shows just how disconnected and out of focus we’ve gotten. This is something that affects EVERYONE, and while I know I may be generalizing from the firsthand lack of response that I saw, certainly SOMEONE, out of ALL the people I know should be regarding this as a serious event!!
Even the NPR and other news feeds that sometimes get massive responses to updates such as the disasters in Haiti and Chile are awfully quiet… I don’t just know one kind of person either. Even though most of the people I connect with are young, as I’ve already said, this is not something that pertains to just one group. Wake up individual Americans, realize your role in this country, take responsibility, be virtuous.
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