Flonne Wrote:I know this is about KONY 2012 and I know that it's more of a fad than anything else, but that doesn't change anything. Millions of ignorant followers are arguably more powerful than millions of informed ones; their opinions are stronger because they lack the knowledge of any flaws of the movement. I use this as a plus because uninformed people are much better at spreading a cause. In this case, it's more important to get quantity over quality, because sadly government today is a popularity contest. Unless we play their numbers game, nothing will get done, and if nothing is done, it will get worse, that is my genuine feeling on matters of this nature. It's not a matter of "more harm than good", in my eyes, regardless of what this accomplishes.
Read http://justiceinconflict.org/2012/03/07/...n-a-notch/ "the problem isn't popularity" again. That's why I'm tearing my heart out, you're discussing things that are already covered in previous posts, articles and it just makes no sense. To you the end is to make the world a better place, the means don't matter and if in the way you make the world a worse place, it doesn't matter because neither the means or, it seems, the end you ARE actually going to achieve matter either. Is contradictory. The real end to you, and some others, is just having people be part of a social movement, regardless of it's utility.
Having people know solves pomegranate. Having people do useless pomegranate solves pomegranate. Having people pineapple whoever they intend to help, obviously doesn't do any good.
Again, read other articles. People who do know the problem and study it, where I live and in Uganda too, say that "until the underlying problem -the region's poor governance - is adequately deal with, there will be no sustainable peace." War achieves nothing, having people notice there's a problem does nothing. Go tell Kony 2012 supporters that this is the actual problem, what are they going to do? There's nothing to do that might be substancial if the end is helping that people, other than, of course, donations to education and health. That's the only way to go.
When it comes to internal political problems in foreign countries (or even in our own land) we can't force change through war if in the end the results would be people building similar regimes. It would be worse if US or any other country meddles and tries to force change too. It's far better if you let people in this situations grow culturally so they develop some sort of political awareness, a stance and finally the motivation and the guts to actually do something about their, or our, poor governments. The help Kony 2012 advertises doesn't preach this, and would undermine whatever chance Ugandan kids and future generations might have to properly deal with their problems.
The underlined part that I quoted makes me think that you care much more about what you and your fellow citizens do about it. Think of it this way: doing nothing would help countries like mine, like Uganda and who knows how many others. It would be way better. Stop meddling in our politics and funding our armies and we will be forever grateful. Work in your own internal problems first, maybe that'll inspire countries in this sort of situations.