I'm keeping my mobile phone

I don't like being told what to do and even more than not being told what to feel. Perhaps this is why I felt somewhat thrilled by the news that someone had debunked Greg Mortensen's "Three Cups of Tea" and "Stones into Schools". I started reading "Stones into Schools" last year and never finished it. A co-worker had also told me that "Three Cups of Tea" was a good read. I didn't finish "Stones into Schools" so it must not have been a thrill ride a minute but I had nothing against it. It presents a noble cause and if it is indeed true (I'm not taking sides yet) then I must support what he is doing. But isn't there somewhat of an implied guilt trip here? I mean Greg supposedly gives up his family, mobile phone and other luxuries to go and live in the boonies to build schools in Pakistan. I think, I, like probably most of the Western world is tired of having causes thrown at them. Not that they aren't good causes. But there's always this attitude that YOU aren't doing enough. Why don't you give up your mobile phone and go live in the mountains..hmmmm!? Furthermore I'm tired of pet causes. I'm sure that breast cancer, for example, is a terrible experience but aren't other cancers, other diseases, poverty,  malaria, etc also terrible experiences. Why must I be strangled with  pink ribbons and have  images of happy, hugging women foisted on me everywhere I go? Do I sound cold and heartless? Maybe. But the fact is that I'm not going on any marathons in ugly T-shirts and I'm not giving up my loved ones or my mobile phone to go build schools. I am a concerned citizen but I can't support every cause. Maybe when one is debunked it's just plain relief that it's one less thing to worry about. Or maybe I just have an overactive conscious and will go back to writing about music.