I've decided that we have a new concept, given birth to by the internet: Faux-rage. What is faux-rage you ask? Faux-rage is outrage without direction, purpose, and sometimes without a firm grounding in reality. For examples of this, see the comment section of almost any news article.
Back in the 60s, when people were protesting the Vietnam war (while my father was risking his life there in the Marine Corps, right or wrong or indifferent, the way the people who went there were treated when they returned home, was horrid, but I digress), one couldn't just sit in their house and protest. You actually had to go outside and risk getting injured or arrested or even killed.
Nowadays however, the youth get to "protest" from the safety and comfort of their own mother's basement. And there's plenty of things to protest too. Lots and lots of things that are unjust. Mind you, they don't cause injustice to any particular person, but rather injustice to amorphous ideas or entities. You see, the real injustices are ignored because they're difficult, if not impossible, to deal with and actually opposing them could get you in trouble, or dead as the case may be. I mean, dealing with actual homeless people or trying to help victims of human trafficking isn't the safest thing to be doing. It's so much safer to sit at your computer and have faux-rage over the name of a football team or what some celebrity tweeted on twitter.
Stop it with the faux-rage. It's asinine and ridiculous and makes you look like an idiot to anyone with half a brain. If you really care, and really want to help people, then get off the computer and go do that. Otherwise, shut up. As my brother was fond of saying, "put your money where your mouth is."
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