why do people care

why do people give a crap if angelina jolie and brad pitt and madonna want to adopt children from africa? i understand wanting to preserve one's heritage, but my parents are my biological parents and we don't celebrate my cultural heritage. i think that's a shitty copout.

and while i can very shallow-ly understand the struggles going on in the continent of Africa (and not feign a deep involvement or emotional investment or attachment), there are lots of children everywhere that are in need of good parents and good homes.

i just don't understand why the lead story on cnn.com is about african adoptions right after reports that a second nuclear detonation from north korea is in the works. the news scares us, the news judges us, fills us with fear and guilt.

sometimes i think we're all asleep. and sometimes there's just no hope. no revolutionary blood flows through our veins anymore. is it gone for good? the stuff that helped humanity survive and struggle? are those people gone for good? some days i think they are.