No Music No Civilization

I love blogging.

That is first and foremost statement I have to declare before I write this post.

Blogging educates the author and its readers, but also have some redundancies going on that will not help the Earth and humanity as a whole. Staggering. Explained by following reasons:

1. I used to be in the Model United Nations, and I still remember the appalling statistics regarding how the majority of world is still impoverished.

People like me, students who go to an International School with yearly pay of more than $20,000 are known to be about 1~5% of the whole population (according to Mr. A, my AP World teacher). The world is very poor.

There are still guerrilla and tribal wars going on in Africa. Not that many people are aware of the child soldier, slavery, prostitution and trafficking is happening globally. Want some names? Europe, the continent with most advanced nations is involved in the slave trade today (slaves does exist today). China, India, Nigeria and Angola are few of the countries notorious for illegal organ tradings; some organs transplanted from a kidnapped person forcefully. How many people know the issue of Timor Leste? Not need to mention America was fueling the wars going on in Africa with illegal arms trade.

Only stuff people pay attention mostly is Darfur and Global Warming. Darfur is a lucky dude to ride on the media and get rescues and coins from every students around the world. Third graders I met somewhere in Youthtwitter even blogged about the Darfur. So… what about anything else? Do they know 10% of their own country’s population is living like Darfur (as in terms of economic condition)?

There are some good movements going around, like Project Global Cooling and Earth Day Network are planned to persuade people from wasting extravagant amount of energy. But problem is that although these sites are created, readers aren’t changing that much. Still live the same way.

Anyways, what I learned from MUN past two years was that the world, as a whole, SUCKED.

While the world is suffering, all we talk about on blogs are (at least the blogs around me) “What is post-modern education?”, “This is Post modern Education”, and “That is post-modern education.” Wow, it really helps.

2 . Okay, so the world sucks. It does suck. To get more young learners from every countries to be ‘connected’ there are lots of problems to be solve because the world sucks.

2.1, Not every countries are English speakers. We can’t collaborate as a global unison that way. Many people in Europe seem to master English in school, but in Asia only people like me of can communicate freely.

2.2 It requires extra amount of funding (Internet, Computer, and all the paying…) for the third world countries. Why would they spend money on ‘abstract’ education while they are busy making money?

So, comparably, nations with more bloggers are generally hold bigger position in the world. So, as

Bloggers, what are we doing? I mean, what is blogging?

I looked up the definition: an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog

Well, we’re already past that. We’re using blogging more creatively than ever (2.0!).

We’re just discussing among ‘ourselves’ to improve ‘ourselves.’ We need to discuss and try to relieve the people from their suffering. As we are reaching our goals, we are not looking sideways or backwards.

That’s the point I think it’s hypocritical. We’re talking about education. And most of us are forgetting the worldly situations. Blogging may cause awareness, but it doesn’t really help some ‘actions’ going on because, still, very few people are engaged. (I am open to be attacked at this point because I haven’t seen every blogger’s posts yet)

1.0 is a web-Log,
2.0 is interaction
then 3.0 should be action.

Lets move forward!

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