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Strange, indeed!  You see yourself as a lion when you are just a little cat who still learns many things. You are nurtured and live your life in a comfortable cage with adequate facilities provided by your owner. You have a high curiosity about life out there. You come out of the cage to occasionally feel the smell of oxygen from other places and have some exciting adventure. And once again, you are not a lion that lives by colonizing the jungle. You are used to living alone even when you are still supposed to suck your mother’s milk. Even so, do you, the little cat, have the right to feel envy for this? Or you just need to believe that you are not born as a wild animal but a lovable pet? That’s how you live your days. If you have to regret, it will last no end since this probably is a part of destiny.

The only thing you have to do is believing that there will be those who see you as you see yourself. 

"In the 1970s, it was the protest songs. In the 1980s, it was the anti-war movies. Today, the protest is no longer happening in songs or movies. Today, it’s online, based on data, and using visualization.

How do you make people notice an issue? How do you get them to care? What if we’re no longer moved by songs (and the artists too comfy and reluctant to take sides) and no longer want to see movies about real issues (and Hollywood won’t take the risk of offending anybody)?