Well-Aware of Awareness
Being in college, I have been hyper-exposed to issues from world hunger, to global warming, to a children's war in northern Uganda.
And I think being aware is great . . . my question is will this ever go away? Is college a hub of current news of its own, where we hoard all of these things to ourselves or are things like fair trade coffee, osfam and the ONE campaign known by all?
Just wondering.
And I think being aware is great . . . my question is will this ever go away? Is college a hub of current news of its own, where we hoard all of these things to ourselves or are things like fair trade coffee, osfam and the ONE campaign known by all?
Just wondering.
posted by Heath at 3:01 PM
3 Comments:
I'm 1 for 3... tell me about "fair trade coffee" and "osfam"...
It's not that I don't want to know...
The problem is that the major news outlets are pretty much worthless... I rarely make time to watch them... Sadly, one of the ways I find out about such things is through movies... for instance I didn't know about "blood diamonds" until I watched the movie... "hotel rwanda" same thing... BUT, I am keenly aware that these are movies and as such they are subject to the bias of 1) the writer/director and 2) the industry's body politic...
There is always another side to the story... It takes a great deal of time and energy to expose yourself to those sides...
Currently, I choose to pursue awareness on other matters... and so it is that I am unaware of that for which you are well aware...
J
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so I just got a blog as well,but I am finding it kind of complicated...anyways I completely understand your questioning, although I find that most people who are deeply concerned with world issues will constantly look them up despite if they live in an oblivious area..we are a very connected culture I think there are ways for us to know about most of the current events in our world
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