Modern Day Issues Compared To Previous Issues

[Magus]

The current problems seem just as important. I'm not sure what you can do for the people rebelling in various Middle-East countries other than being informed about it and informing others about it and maintaining solidarity. If there is anything specific you can do via Facebook in spreading these people's message, I guess you could do that.

I don't know what you can do to "change the world" besides live as honest a life as you can and, if you have children, or have relatives with children, instill in them values that make them at least mildly less prejudiced and selfish than the current generation of people in the world today. There are always little things you can do such as donate money or even actively help out with various movements, or in your local community, but "fighting a great war" is not how actual change is brought about, it's brought about by people volunteering their time and money on local-level issues, in the places where they see problems. The locality might be the Middle East or Africa or Asia or what have you, it might be your backyard. Armed conflict has basically not solved any problems I can think of--the Civil War didn't solve racism and prejudice in the south, for example. It took regular people marching and sacrificing their time and money and often their lives over the course of decades to "solve" that problem (to the extent it has been--obviously there is more work to be done, not only in the south but now in the southwest, the north, everywhere in the U.S.). Basically shooting somebody hasn't solved any of the actual problems of humanity, it's only been a short term solution because people are forced to act a certain way, as opposed to wanting to act that way--that kind of societal change takes years of hard work.