Unfortunately, this also means that nobody cares.
This is the odd problem that we face when we choose to exist within a safe pod of like-minded people. It is incredibly evident in some of its organizations.
Spectrum is Hamline's LGBT organization. I was exceedingly excited to find myself a part of an LGBT organization because I worked so hard to put one together at my Catholic high school. I figured that my experience with a college org would be so much better because I expected it to be active in the community, serving and working to benefit society.
NO SUCH LUCK.
Every meeting I ever attended was exceptionally... pointless. I thought it was stupid, so i just fell out of the organization. I stopped attending meetings, and I lost my respect for the leaders of the organization. Few people came, and only the same handful of people ever came to the meetings. The most memorable meeting involved a rousing game of Pretty Pretty Princess. Kind of pathetic.
Then I visited St. Thomas's LGBT org.
They were pretty amazing. They went out and participated in self-orchestrated service projects, requiring hours of service for its members. And St. Thomas is a conservative Catholic university! I was pretty shocked. Then I thought about it and I realized something.
If everyone is okay with it, what needs to be changed? Hamline's openness to the socially underprivileged is okay... but when the students never expose themselves to the greater community, it encourages a sense that no more changes need to take place because everything is okay.
Everything is open at Hamline! But there happens to be a world outside of Hamline that Hamline too many Hamline students choose to neglect.
What... is going on?
Huh. I never actually considered a place where nothing is left to change anymore. That's pretty sad in my opinion. I mean, what's the point of changing something if no one is going to care anymore? Isn't that the whole point? Usually when you care enough to bother changing something you'd want to take care of it and watch it. Make sure it keeps adapting and growing into something you're proud of. It just sounds horribly sad, people not trying any more because everyones sorta thrown it aside as "accomplished".
ReplyDelete=( Kinda reminds me of a Utopian society where everyone just shrugs and goes, "What do we care, we live in a perfect world. Nothing left to do." When it's all so much deeper then that...OMFG SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!