This post is to try to encourage people NOT to participate in the KONY2012 movement. Before you read this, go watch the actual KONY 2012 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc
After watching that video you were probably thinking you were going to go out and buy a action kit and on april 20th you were going to go out and "cover the night." Here are some reasons why not to:
The first reason is because the organization, Invidiblechildren, is very shady and does not have much of their money actually going to the cause. Only 33% of it actually goes to helping the kids in africa. the rest of the money goes to either film production or salaries etc. This shows that the organization can not be trusted, and by donating to them, only a third of your money would be going to the cause.
The second reason is because Joseph Kony himself is not a issue anymore. The LRA and Kony are not in uganda anymore, and there has not been a attack from him sense 2003. The issue of child soldiers is still very much around but the Kony2012 movement is mostly focusing on just one person and not the issue of child soldiers as a whole, this is another reason why Kony 2012 is not to be trusted.
The final reason is because the only reason the movement is so popular is because of little brats saw the video and freaked out because they did not know the were bad people who do bad things in the world. They just watched the video and did not go anywhere else for information. This really irritates me because people can be persuaded by social media so easily and they will just listen to any crap that is thrown at them.
There are many more reasons why this movement should not be supported but if feel those are the main ones.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
The Killing Joke
In Allan Moore's The killing joke, He is trying to say that: regular people can be turned into psychopaths.
Throughout the book Alan Moore scatters various flashbacks of the Jokers life before he was "the Joker". He was a pretty normal guy, struggling with a job that does not pay and a wife at home with a baby on the way. This shows that the Joker was a psychopath, or evil, he became that way.
There are 2 incidents that cause Joker to become the way he is now. The first incident is when he finds out that his wife has died, his wife and his baby were all he has had, and he lost them. The 2 guys who where forcing him to do this red hood job were not sympathetic at all and didn't give him time to morn.
Than when he was doing the red hood job, batman was chasing him, he fell over and into a vat of acid. This was the tipping point to joker being insane. Obviously this would make a person crazy, but the real deciding factor was that he did not really have a will to live anymore. Sense he was fixed on the fact that his life was a joke (he said: "It's all a big joke to me.") before when he was talking to his wife means this was not just some random occurrence of falling into acid and being crazy, it means it was because of a deep personal event that happened to him. When he fell into the acid just sewed the pieces together.
All of these are good reasons why a regular person can be turned into a psychopath, and why the killing joke is a complex and amazing book.
Throughout the book Alan Moore scatters various flashbacks of the Jokers life before he was "the Joker". He was a pretty normal guy, struggling with a job that does not pay and a wife at home with a baby on the way. This shows that the Joker was a psychopath, or evil, he became that way.
There are 2 incidents that cause Joker to become the way he is now. The first incident is when he finds out that his wife has died, his wife and his baby were all he has had, and he lost them. The 2 guys who where forcing him to do this red hood job were not sympathetic at all and didn't give him time to morn.
Than when he was doing the red hood job, batman was chasing him, he fell over and into a vat of acid. This was the tipping point to joker being insane. Obviously this would make a person crazy, but the real deciding factor was that he did not really have a will to live anymore. Sense he was fixed on the fact that his life was a joke (he said: "It's all a big joke to me.") before when he was talking to his wife means this was not just some random occurrence of falling into acid and being crazy, it means it was because of a deep personal event that happened to him. When he fell into the acid just sewed the pieces together.
All of these are good reasons why a regular person can be turned into a psychopath, and why the killing joke is a complex and amazing book.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Born racist? (the Help)
The book I am reading currently, the help, is mainly about raceisim. It takes place in the 1950's, when racisim and segregation are very real issues. People who are born don't have their personalty imbedded in their genes, that's why People are not born racist. If ones parents are racist, it is more likely that the kid will be because they have a influence on them from a young age. But mabie if there was a kid who was born to racist parents and adopted by nice non judgemental parents, kid would be a non racest.
In the help, the little boy named Mae mobely is born with a absent and mean mother so the maid takes care of him, sence the maid is raising the boy, he will probaly think of the maid as more of a mother figure than the actual mom.
In the book it talkes about how the maid would see red hand marks on the back of mae's legs from the mom. This is another reason why the baby would grow away from the mom and testes the main character.
I can't wait to find out how these issues will be resolved. I will come back to this topic once I have more textual evidence to support my thesis.
In the help, the little boy named Mae mobely is born with a absent and mean mother so the maid takes care of him, sence the maid is raising the boy, he will probaly think of the maid as more of a mother figure than the actual mom.
In the book it talkes about how the maid would see red hand marks on the back of mae's legs from the mom. This is another reason why the baby would grow away from the mom and testes the main character.
I can't wait to find out how these issues will be resolved. I will come back to this topic once I have more textual evidence to support my thesis.
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