Discuss: Awesome Activism
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Interesting how earnest sincerity needs to be accompanied by random tidbits of absurdity (i.e. peeps, Pakistan). As a teacher on a college campus, and one who once taught about World Affairs out of the oftentimes droll Economist, I noticed that my lessons about politics were best received when spiced with a little humor, especially when we discussed domestic politics. Though, when I talked about Darfur or Kashmir or AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, I refused to joke and students still paid attention. But I wonder: What about the world is so awful that engagement requires a Daily Show dose of humor? Or is it not about the world, which has no historical monopoly on “suck,” but that our wonderful college-aged generation raised on DVDs and computer games requires entertainment even when confronting the world’s messes? Thoughts?
Interesting how earnest sincerity needs to be accompanied by random tidbits of absurdity (i.e. peeps, Pakistan). As a teacher on a college campus, and one who once taught about World Affairs out of the oftentimes droll Economist, I noticed that my lessons about politics were best received when spiced with a little humor, especially when we discussed domestic politics. Though, when I talked about Darfur or Kashmir or AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, I refused to joke and students still paid attention. But I wonder: What about the world is so awful that engagement requires a Daily Show dose of humor? Or is it not about the world, which has no historical monopoly on “suck,” but that our wonderful college-aged generation raised on DVDs and computer games requires entertainment even when confronting the world’s messes? Thoughts?