| TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE you need to stop being brainwashed by the mass mainstream media (get your news from alternative websites and recycle that TV), reduce your carbon foot-print (here's how), choose food that is better for you and the planet (organic, vegetarian and fair-trade), stop buying things you don't need, stop your dependence on pharmaceutical drugs unless you absolutely need them, recycle as much as possible and buy recycled products, and support life-promoting programs (educational, alternative money, health, food etc.).
That little paragraph above is the entirety of our planetary responsibility at this time. And yet, almost everyone who has choice in these areas is choosing the path to destruction — for the planet, society and themselves. Why?
Mainstream media brain-washes us into maintaining the status quo. Just about all the films, music shows, television programs, newspaper and magazine articles promote unsustainable and suicidal values and lifestyles. For when we see what our media icons have and do, we aspire to the same — it's human nature.
So the MOST important step in making a difference is to stop the incessant "old-world" propaganda that only pushes the world ever closer to the brink. We have to take control of our own values and opinions so that we can finally stop this unconscious mass-suicide. This is the only way.
I know it sounds radical, and you may have to wean yourself off it slowly, but GET RID of your TV. At first the silence will be deafening — you will be like the addict coming off his supply. And just when you think you are going crazy with nothing to distract your mind, you will start to feel what is going on inside. And when you can feel, you become a human being. All activism has to start from this place of humanity.
To the left is a random list of campaigns that have caught my eye, more often to illustrate points rather than as a means to global change (for that you need to do the above). Having said that, small campaigns such as these have value because they add a little more kindness and consciousness to the world. AP |