National ______ Awareness Month

America's insistence on demoting important causes and issues to one month a year is as insulting as it is futile. What one hopes to achieve by "raising awareness" during said month short of overproducing silly slogans, I'm not sure. In today's high speed communication age, any bloke who has to go out of his way to hide under a rock without disease or discrimination of some kind is not really worth enlightening anyway. What is needed is more action from dedicated people, more of a filter on what we need to be "aware" of, and a greater sensitivity to "awareness months'" greater implications.

Of course, when people say they are raising awareness, they really hope that your awareness is raised to a point where you want to do something about the problem. Cancer isn't going away just because you've acknowledged it like some twisted game of peekaboo. Now since awareness here implies action, there are certain awareness programs that to me seem completely ludicrous. For example, what does global awareness mean to you? On a simple and sane level, it is the idea that every educated person should want to understand the societies around him. Their troubles and victories should become his troubles and victories to the extent that we're all human.

But all too often liberals degrade something to a month that should be daily on ones mind, and twist it into a platform for their agendas for which they want money and energy; in this case, trans-nationalism. Another perfect example is Earth day, or quite frankly the entire "Green" movement. Pollution is a problem to the extent that we need a clean world to live in, where planes don't emit long black trails of smoke like in the 70's and garbage dumps don't stink up every corner like in Europe. But since we've fixed the noticeable and evident problems, those liberal fear-mongers (to use one of their favorite names for me) have us up-in-arms against a figment of Al Gore's imagination.

Global and Earth awareness may be silly, but they are not nearly as insulting as Black History Month. As Morgan Freeman famously said in his 60 Minutes interview, "can you fit white history into one month?" And quite frankly, "why is White history any different than Black history? Why can't it all just be American history?" Liberals have done a tremendous disservice to the black community for political gain by continually promising them salvation from woefully exaggerated and often simply lied about race based victimization. Black History Month is just another way of making everyone aware of how different blacks are from the rest of America, and as a fellow American I take personal offense to that.

I guess I wouldn't take such offense to all these months with all these causes if some of them weren't as childish as People Skills Month (June), or as inane as Self-Discovery Month (May). As my proposed solution to it all (you never want to be the whiner with no answers), I think we need to let people choose their own level of consciousness, and encourage those heavily aware ones around us to chase down their causes until they don't have to anymore. Let's end cancer through research, not T-shirt slogans. Let's stop aids by discouraging promiscuity and drug use, instead of passing out contraceptives and needles in school. Let's get rid of Black History Month and promote our shared American History all year round.