{"id":435,"date":"2012-03-12T01:50:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T01:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2012-03-12T02:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T02:35:18","slug":"kony2012-the-rest-of-the-real-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kony2012&#8221; The REST of the REAL Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To me, this story was never about Joseph Kony. It was about the social media phenomenon which surrounded his name. That was the remarkable thing in my view.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=419\">previous article<\/a> I said that I wasn&#8217;t interested in digging into the &#8220;other side of the story.&#8221; So many people have asked me in the meantime for my opinion, so I&#8217;ve decided to present the research and opinions of others who have done just that&#8211; revealed the other side. As far as my own personal involvement&#8230; I felt comfortable sharing the original mini-documentary on Facebook, but I never considered donating money to the cause. I&#8217;ve made a very comfortable spot for myself, sitting on the fence.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with two print articles detailing the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalisminstitute.org\/kony-2012\/\">http:\/\/www.capitalisminstitute.org\/kony-2012\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/kony-2012-wrapping-imperialiam-in-activism.html\">http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/kony-2012-wrapping-imperialiam-in-activism.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if reading lengthy print articles isn&#8217;t really your thing, here&#8217;s a video by a very geopolitically savvy Syrian woman who explains some of the &#8220;problems&#8221; with the Kony video in less than 8 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zFZK2HHvQ_8\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zFZK2HHvQ_8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here, my prize&#8230; another video about 9 minutes long which explains the significance of the social media phenomenon surrounding Kony2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k78xX9uwj-0&#038;hd=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k78xX9uwj-0&#038;hd=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now instead of trying to immediately sell us the solution like the Kony film did with its Activists&#8217; Kits, what if a powerful video asked us instead to enter into an open dialogue about brainstorming solutions? Link us to a forum where we can intelligently discuss the matter, and let the millions decide how best to tackle the world&#8217;s ills. I believe that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s in store for us. It excites me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me, this story was never about Joseph Kony. It was about the social media phenomenon which surrounded his name. That was the remarkable thing in my view. In a previous article I said that I wasn&#8217;t interested in digging (&hellip;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=435\">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peripheral-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}