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I posted this for a few friends earlier this week. If it resonates with you, do something about it!
There is a point to this so bear with me...

I was reading the newspaper this morning and I saw something truly horrific. 250 killed in Palestine, children starving and dying of aids in Africa, people torn from their homes, mother brutally kills her adorable daughter...disgusting. All over the world truly horrific things are happening; people killing others in religious/political wars, parents snuffing out their own children, a depressed teen killed innocent people in a mall shooting. With all of the death and horror in this world how can we be so removed? We as a people (all people, not just Americans) have grown so desensitized to violence that we peer right past the 250 killed recently in Palestine and go on living. Seeing as I only can only speak from an American perspective, I can only say that here we live lavishly, like filthy spoiled kings who prefer convenience above all else. I find it difficult to live this way, so non-chalantly, when there is so much death and destruction present.
I am supposed to be writing an analysis on christmas (I like to call it Gift-mas or Eul) Even facebook is infringing upon my right to be an athiest, the spell check on face book is forcing me to capitalize "christmas," making it more monumental than it is, by putting an obnoxious little red line beneath it. Ha. Anyway, I actually found it difficult to enjoy christmas this year, my mother gave me gifts despite me telling her to give it to starving children in Africa. Thankfully we are sending $300 to an organization that can help educate them about sex and feed them (Sex-Fed). Here is my analysis of Gift-mas: The materialism permeates even the best of us, my mother, an un-materialistic person felt the need to get me gifts. This recently initiated tradition of giving gifts has become an obligation in our culture, hell, even non-christians get people gifts. Everyone here is fully aware of all of the atrocities that go on around the world and yet people are still seduced into spoiling each other with superficial items that somehow validate their appreciation for one another.
Now I won't continue ranting and raving about how shitty America is and how callous we have become so I'll just cut to the chase. Fuck New Years resolutions, as a life resolution I feel responsible to try and promote positive change in any way I can, so I have something to ask all of you. Please, help me, this world needs caring conscious people to get past all of the superficialities that plague it. Just do what you can, I don't expect people to change the world, just do what you can to make the world a more beautiful place. Be better than your average oblivious consumer whore of an American. Change should be more than just a bullshit campaign slogan, make it happen.