Thoughts? Think it'll work? Please take time to watch! It's absolutely worth it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc I think this is awesome and am looking forward to see how it plays out. I can see there being a few idiots taking advantage of April 20-21, but I hope everything goes well. Great to see people fighting for this, I know it made an impact at my school when they came through a few years ago. Crazy that it's already at 600k views, I bet it'll be into the millions by the time people wake up on the west coast.
Well, they can't protest the Afghan war, because their guy is the civilian-killing warmonger now, and the Occupy thing fizzled out when it got a bit chilly outside, so it's on to a new cause that will accomplish nothing in the end. :MARIS61:
Yeah. I went to an invisible children event like a year ago. its just "viral" now. "educate yourself by watching this film that we heavily edited to elicit an emotional response" I went to an invisible children event last year. bunch of art-hipster dofuses, spending most of the time drinking free booze and checking out overpriced street art exhibits. http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/
And you really think that that's the goal of Invisible Children? You're going to take one experience with a bunch of fools who are more into saying they want to improve things than actually doing something and take that as a representation of everyone who supports Invisible Children, especially the leadership?
Can somebody tell me who or what are the invisible children? Is it the group that put together that heavily-produced YouTube video linked in the first post?
Its a lot like this recent fluff on facebook and twitter the last 24 hours. armchair philanthropists who only get their news through viral media and the latest craze, watching heavily edited and skewed videos and believing that is "educating oneself". Its just annoying and another case of typical lip service. Goals? They want to send US ground troops against an army of children? just wait until THAT youtube video pops up. The problem is you have a bunch of idealist who want to enforce their own superficial beliefs with fluffy viral videos. Its like a gigantic TED conference where "intellectuals" want to solve all the world's problems by intervening and forcing their own beliefs on the world.
After 3 minutes of no information being presented, I'm not spending another 27 minutes watching this snail-paced whatever it is. Maybe you could recap the basic idea/message if there is one.
Yeah, I felt the same way, except I only made it 1:34 into it. Make your point without the theme music and production, and maybe I'll be interested in your cause.
They are Ugandan Children who have to hike several miles away from their village each night to a refuge camp just to sleep. OR, fear being abducted by the LRA and forced to become child soldiers. Kony is the leader of the LRA. Watched the movie 5 years ago, very powerful film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Children
