So, this is a reason DC Comics is awesome: http://www.joinwecanbeheroes.org/

But something doesn’t really sit right with me about this campaign. I think it’s because the whole thing seems geared toward a pretty self-centered message. “I give because it makes me feel good.” “I feel like a hero and that makes me feel good about myself.”

Here’s what I would rather have you take a closer look at: The Girl Effect. Here’s an initiative that motivates me outside of myself. I watched the first one of these and it stuck with me for months; this new one is even more powerful.

But, okay. Time to stop comparing production quality of videos encouraging me to change the world and time to start actually changing the world. Still, The Girl Effect is good and I want to start there. www.girleffect.org

[edit] Let’s be clear, please, that I am not saying one initiative is good and another is not. Both are incredibly worthy. I just wish we would want to give for others’ sake without thinking about ourselves, but that’s because I am very cynical. If we lived in a society where wealth was spread naturally I wouldn’t even have to think about this. I still wish there was a way to make a global communist economy viable. And no, U.S. Government, I don’t fucking care if you hunt me down and take me for saying that.