Everyone Wants to Help

Ah...the idea of mass hysteria is great. One person creates a video and all the sudden everyone claims they're a fucking humanitarian. I'm talking about this new video created in efforts to stop a man by the name of Joseph Kony. I'm not knocking the video at all, in fact I agree it's a good thing, we need to kill this motherfucker. But when everyone start's to think that they are Mother Teresa because they can update their status's over their phone showing how much they care, then I think we are really missing the point here. 

Facebook is a funny thing when it comes to these sort of events. We read one thing and all of the sudden people are philosophers with these deep and sentimental wall posts about how much they give a fuck about this new global issue. Like after watching a 30 minute video they have become enlightened and blessed with all these moral ideals. The truth is that most of these people who have all the sudden become "concerned", really cared about nothing outside their own little lives, let alone Africa, but the idea of joining in in a mass concern for the well-being of other's makes them feel like they are actually making a difference in the world.

 Because of this people trying to make light of the situation, and as a result of this new found wisdom by all you newly created globally cultured people, y'all are jumping their nuts, preaching to them about the seriousness of the whole situation as if you just got back from a one man John Rambo mission through Uganda. This is called mass hysteria. It is very common not only in efforts to help the world, but even something as small as a sports team winning a championship game. That's why for instance when the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup people were rioting in the streets. I'm talking about common people who work a 9 to 5, setting cars on fire and flipping them. That is mass hysteria, people acting or performing out of the ordinary because one or a few people start something. It's like a false epidemic. That's how this is working right now and lately comments on Facebook have been too funny. There are guys and girls posting this video and then commenting below them with these inspiring words like they are fucking Aristotle, when really all they know is about 30 minutes of information that they were completely oblivious to before that.

So before everyone gets all hyped up thinking they are making a difference by posting a video let me hit you with a little knowledge, you're not. And for all you funny people who are making a joke out of this...well it's a little soon I suppose, plus nothing makes you look like more of a douche than a failed joke via Facebook. So instead of falling into the hysteria, why don't we let the people who actually do know what's going on take care of things.