{"id":8147,"date":"2013-07-08T06:12:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T13:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=8147"},"modified":"2013-07-09T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T16:51:00","slug":"awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=8147","title":{"rendered":"Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the modern things that we do is to try and increase awareness of some particular malady that is plaguing society.\u00a0 Hunger, hunger in Africa, cancer, breast cancer, driver education, food stamps, the IRS targeting and many more.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/mt-whitney\/simon-wins-lottery\">blogged about it before<\/a> but, to no avail, people still keep trying to increase my awareness.\u00a0 Here is the reality folks:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Awareness without action is emotional masturbation.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It makes you feel better but it doesn&#8217;t change the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here it is on a poster using my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/snagit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Snagit Tool<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Awareness-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8152\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=8152\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Awareness-2.jpg?fit=752%2C560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"752,560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Awareness 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Awareness-2.jpg?fit=700%2C521&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8152\" title=\"Awareness 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Awareness-2-300x223.jpg?resize=405%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Awareness-2.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, 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