Most of those who associate themselves with either idea are unable to do anything but pick up the slogan, as they are disassociated by both geography and thus empathy, and thus the ability to understand what it is they truly are saying. Free Tibet from what? For who? And why? It is impossible to be aware of the circumstances surrounding these ideas that have been propagated, are hollow oaths that are merely a fad taken up without the ability to know their origin.

In the boycotting china motif, I see it more as a reminder that I have yet to attain a form of function in my life that can do without trivial and consumption based items. In this I find myself ashamed and see to change, instead of pretending that China is an evil place.

In the end thought, most ideas lead nowhere unless they lead to something one can do oneself. It puts the power and ability into ones own hands, instead of handing it off and pretending that it is everyone else that must change for this thing to be.

In this, I am ashamed that these ideas have become propagated within my own mind, and can only seek a lifestyle that lets me resolve them within my own being.