Awareness...FOR WHAT IDIOTS?!
Posted on: June 1, 2008, at 05:40:07pm

Everyone, I need your help. After being at school today, and seeing a bunch of people writing on their arms to promote awareness of suicidal thoughts, I've realised that there's another affliction, far more common, that the world needs to be more aware of. That affliction, my friends, is rampant egotism and idiotic self importance. Loosely defined by the word "stupid".

First off, I'll start with the group I mentioned above - the ones writing "love" on their arms in an effort to promote awareness of suicidal thoughts in teens. Speaking as a teen who has had suicidal thoughts in the recent and distant past, allow me to tell you all to go to hell. Writing a word on your arm for a week out of your life does nothing, repeat, nothing, to help. In any way. Period. You know what it does? It makes us feel like shit. Not only does it serve as a reminder to us that we've had these shaming thoughts, but "raising awareness" is the biggest load of shit I've ever heard. People know that others commit and contemplate suicide - hence why most people know the meaning of the word by the time they're in 6th grade - but no one really wants to try to do anything about it. You really want to help? Stop being an arrogant cockwad, get down from your high horse, and be a friend to someone in need. Don't write on your arm, pretending you care, while going about your life as if nothing were happening. You're a coward and a clone, and you deserve a slow, painful death. You assholes have no idea what it's like, and if you did you'd say exactly what I'm about to say: wash your arms, your face, and get the fuck out of my sight before I rip them both off and switch them around. Douchefag.

Another useless Facebook group is that one about the polar bears. Apparently, the users of the group throw an ice cube into the ocean. Because that'll help, right? A few hundred ice cubes a day will definitely combat the thousands of kilotons of toxic waste and greenhouse gasses that are super-heating the Earth to temperatures not seen in hundreds of years. I know, I know, don't tell me: it'll "raise awareness". There's that line of shit again.

Look assholes. Raising awareness does shit. For most things, anyway. Ok, we could use higher awareness for things like that thing with that massive particle accelerator that could potentially create a black hole that could consume the entire planet within 7 to 12 minutes, destroying life as we know it; or about the onslaught in Sri Lanka, where the Tamils are facing genocidal extinction. But for shit like teen suicide and global warming? That's like raising awareness for traffic jams, or blackouts. Everyone knows they exist, but no one cares or is willing to do what's really needed to fix it, either out of fear of looking stupid in front of their friends, or just plain laziness.
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