Eygpt.

So. I really have nothing funny to say at this point, and I have no real earthshattering announcements. Hell, I'm not even going to complain about no one reading this. I got caught up in the revolution in Eygpt. I read a great blog http://community.sparknotes.com/2011/02/03/living-through-the-egyptian-revolution written by this girl about my age in Eygpt, now. Like, living through the revolution. And it really got me thinking. We as a culture, glorify going off to war, or 'fighting the good fight'. We try to cover our asses when our mistakes are brought to light, and we throw our support behind the 'courageous young people who fight not only for their country, but the entire Arab world' or some other politcal rhetoric. The simple truth, however, is WE HAVE NO CLUE WHAT IT IS ACTUALLY LIKE. We live in idealic comfort, ignorant of the world outside of our borders. We can barely find Iraq, Afghansistan, Eygpt on a map, and we are constantly calculating how new political change will affect us. How about for a change, we calculate how it will affect the people involved? Instead of a talking suit going on about 'political developments' and the 'economic ramifications of this paralysis of the economy' we get a bloody street protestor to explain why he is doing this. I can't even imagine thugs brutally looting and desecrating my neighborhood. I don't think anyone can imagine what it is like to be without Internet or phones. Oh sure, we get frusterated when our computers are slow, and don't load. We never contemplate having no Internet whatsoever.Yet this is happening, right now, in Egypt.
What are we doing to help? Can we do anything to help? The answer, what little there are are not much, and there isn't anything really that we can be doing.
 I can't inspire people. I have no call to arms. I can't urge you  to read the newspapers and stay informed, or listening to multiple TV sources to get the full picture.  If you cannot care enough to follow quite possibly the biggest story of the decade, I can't help you. Maybe what they say about American Apathy is true, and we only care about ourselves. All I can say is that change starts small, and if we don't care enough to heed the change and form our own opinions on it, then we don't deserve the title of Citizen of the World. Think outside the box. Challenge yourself to place yourself in the protestors place.

I can't say anything more.