Our society today is overly desensitized. Today I asked my uncle to support a fundraiser my school is doing for starving children and Africa. He looked at me and literally laughed in my face. “ why don’t they go to the store like everyone else and buy condoms” he told me, utterly convinced that this would be the answer to the epidemic. Naturally I was shocked. My uncle is 36 years old and he clearly has no idea what is going on in his own world, nor could he care less. This is the case for many, many people I talk to have no clue about Tibet or Aids in Africa or even about poverty in their own community. We are so self absorbed. We are so materialistic. If we are comfortable why should anything else matter? Even the government refuses to recognize the need these people are in, but they are more than egger to support the war in Iraq. Maybe one day peace will win over war….