spare me from your privileged guilt, love

please don't send me any more of your stupid group emails about stopping the war or making poverty history.

of course i want to make poverty history.

of course i recognize that war is a bad thing.

you want to know how to really make a difference to poverty in the world? go to somewhere in the developing world and build a well...

don't align yourself to fashionable causes because it makes you feel better about your complete inaction, your western, privileged malady of utter utter selfishness, that little voice in your head that has been there since your mum told you to eat all the food on your dinner plate because there are starving children in africa.

actually go there and try to make a real difference.

or send them money.

shut up and send them money.

otherwise don't try to make yourself feel better about yourself- because those starving people in the developing world and those people whose houses have been bombed to pieces because of the capitalist machine and the greed which you perpetuate sure as shit don't care about you and your bleeding heart.

they want a house to live in and clean water to drink.

they gain nothing from being a fleeting blip on your psychodrama radar, and you may well say that every bit of awareness makes a difference, to which i reply: rubbish, these petty indulgences only serve to promote and perpetuate complacency by simply assuaging privileged guilt, in both the short and the long term.