It is more difficult living in today's world than at any other time in history. In times past, the world was "bigger", but that has been changing since the industrial revolution and today's technological advances have shrunk the world into a small ball.
Earthquakes and tsunamis and radiation in Japan, civil wars in Africa, Orwell's 1984 in North Korea, Canada's government has shut down- not that it's sent shockwaves out into the world- causing me to think that life without the state is quite possible in our times. Then there is the middle east. Yemen, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, are just some of the countries where citizens are in an uproar protesting, demanding democracy, justice, and equality in their governments now. The shady dealings of Euro-American imperialistic greed is finally seeing the fruits of it's "labor". With people being shot point blank in the head in Yemen to people to tens of thousands of people feared dead in Japan as citizens of the world, and citizens of the US, a pang in our conscience brings rise to an air of helplessness. The question arises, "What do I do?" or "What CAN I do?"
The answer is simple and uncomplicated. Get involved. There is plenty you can do as Americans, where we still live in one of the freest societies in the world despite the government's efforts to quash those freedoms on a regular basis. Spending your time on Facebook or worshiping at the altar of some sports team, however, will amount to naught, and life that's not fought for is not worth living.
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