I agree that open checkbooks are an important way to change a situation.
I just wanted to make the point that it is not a binary between slacktivism and open checkbook. There are other things that can and should be done as well. I think that lobbying government officials is a very important act, since I want our government to take a larger role in funding research and social programs, rather than relying on the goodwill of the populous.
I was one of the blood donors after 9/11 and I thought exactly that -- extra blood available is never a bad thing.
I totally agree with your assessment/sentiment here. I actually actively find those things really obnoxious. I tend to console myself by thinking that "well, at least it's showing up as something 'popular' to do, which means the overall awareness of our culture to this issue is improving" but I agree that it's not actually doing anything concrete to help, and could be actively hurting if it provides the soothing balm for the feeling of needing to do something, as you put it
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I just wanted to make the point that it is not a binary between slacktivism and open checkbook. There are other things that can and should be done as well. I think that lobbying government officials is a very important act, since I want our government to take a larger role in funding research and social programs, rather than relying on the goodwill of the populous.
I was one of the blood donors after 9/11 and I thought exactly that -- extra blood available is never a bad thing.
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