Excellent article. To further exemplify: the online Vimeo-youtube video "Real Estate 4 Ransom" clearly demonstrates the structural economic flaw that brought the financial system to its knees, but the reasons are a little more complex than simply blaming a handful of crooks as the popular documentary "Inside Job" did.

By all means, bring criminal and corrupt individuals such as Kony or Greenspan to justice, but that needs to be supplemented by a deeper analysis of the phenomena that threw these individuals up as leaders. Another case: How many people understand that overlaying the depression on Germany's impossible Treaty of Versailles reparations had all the hallmarks of a situation that could throw up a monster.

But maybe it's simply easier for us to blame individuals than get to the root of the problem?

Before we can apply our combined attention to a problem, we first have to know about it!
Once we know about it, we can act? Even if it is only to support those, can do candidates, promoting viable solutions? I'm sure on the ground activists believed they were in some way addressing some of the root causes of social phenomena; as evidenced in rebels, like spokesperson for God, Kony?
Time is always the so-called activist's enemy and or, not their friend?
I can't claim to know what the solution is, but that sitting on ones hands or staying silent, when we should be shouting our outrage from the rooftops; or over the social media, isn't any part of any real solution! Rhrosty

Yeah, so what.

The entire concept of "social media" is an exercise in devaluation.

"Friending" devalues friendship to the level of clicking an icon.

The "Like" button likewise [sorry] devalues the intellectual input of both the liker and likee. Hitting it allows you to move quickly on to the next gobbet of e-information. You don't have to chew it, ruminate on it or digest it - in fact you cannot, there's no time for that. "Like". Move on.

Kony was a classic of the genre, a straightforward "click-and-move-on" exercise. The illusion of do-gooding. Generating warm-and-fuzzies about how caring one is, without actually having to do any caring at all.

And on the topic of social media...

Twitter is the worst of all. So far, that is. Here we have a process whereby communication is reduced to its blandest, most banal level. Oooh look, I'm at a restaurant. Oooh look, a picture of a cat wearing a tam o'shanter. Oooh look, I'm on the train...

I'd like to think that such overwhelming triviality will have a very short life. Folk will suddenly become aware of the fact that they are spending a substantial chunk of their lives talking to themselves, and that they are actually quite boring.

However I incline rather to the opposite view - that it will actually get worse. While the process of creating avatars of oneself for consumption by the world at large is kinda fun, keeping up the persona that you have created will, eventually, become a full-time task. Meanwhile, the "real" person disappears completely, and ultimately is unable to communicate with other real people.

But then, I've always been a cock-eyed optimist.

People are so gullible.The Kony creation was all about a setup to invade Uganda since China is there securing energy and resources.30,000 Chinese oil workers were forced to leave Libya when NATO invaded it.

China is also in Sudan,which Brad Pitt and Botox lips are crying oppression.You find oppression via oil and where China moves.