Does anyone here take part in protests? Does they have an effect on you? Do any of you even pay em much mind?
I'm beginning to think they are a relic of a dead age really. They don't have the dramatic punch they once had and are often filled more with people wanting to cause problems instead of actually protest. News agencies pretty much wait like rabit dogs for a riot to break out and if one does not the protest is given no air time.
More importantly though...do they matter? Take all the European protests over the War...do they even matter? With few supporting it officially...fewer sending troops...what's it matter if they take to the streets when their voice has already dictated the action of their government? It's like people who make the same point over and over...you got it the first time...move on.
Second...whats it really matter if people from scandinavia protest the war? Do they think the American people for example care? Hell few could point em out on a map...but all cynical views aside it fails to take into account that these days....around the world...many have an attitude of not really caring what other people think. So if you don't hold care for what your own neighbor thinks...why would you care what an entire nation of people think half a world away? May sound a bit black hearted...but lets be realistic...when was the last time you changed a major part of your life cause a country you know little about felt you should?
Listening and respecting what they say is one thing...and should be done by all...but actually factoring it in and making a point to include them...no. That's what you have your fellow countrymen for...and in a world of national bounderies that factors in much more.
So really what makes more of an impact...protests from ones own people...or those from a world away?
I remember the collective shrug many gave when the news reposrts and articles said Europeans "hate" americans. How true it was...who knows...did I care either way? Not really...I don't vacation there and never got the feeling they liked the U.S. all that much. So it's like that family member who always thinks their better than you openly saying it to you...it just doesn't matter anymore. That's what protesting is starting to feel like...massive statements of the obvious by sides who've already stated their message again and again to the point you tune it out.
Like PETA people...they can show me all the gory footage they want...it no longer has an impact and truth is...it makes me kinda hungry cause when I see a Cow hanging from a meat hook I think what nice steaks it'll make....same with tortured chickens and fucked over pigs. The Protests have failed for the most part...though really how serious can you take an organization that has Alec Baldwin and Pamela Anderson as spokespeople?
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