on the too big words to use:
consciousness is such a big word. like love. ike depression. it is not simple enough to even use.
awareness is knowing. so that is better. do you know? if so you might feel empathy which as Bill Clinton sogamely said, i feel you pain. to be conscious als might mean doing something about it since yo are president. and maybe extending your "feeling" to caring for them. building a clinic a school hospital homes bringing food....and not blowing them up from 30,000 feet as if the poor were the ones taking over the planet...
well they are sort of by the numbers. anyway. ut may ve not for long as Hell and MePretty Hates are building viruses now that will only kill the poor. the New Weird Eden shall be empathy free because everyone there will also BePretty Belinda, and healthy and very rich.
   shedding crocodile tears is not consciousness. fixing it is. give a man a fish? no. teach  him how to fish. yes. so proactivity. is consciousness. teaching is too. nursing is too. most doctors. abbies. bus drivers. the sheer purity of their duties is po-humanity with out judgment. get them better so we can hang them. pure love there.
   you cannot put a dying man in the gas chamber.
    and starving people will steal food anyway they can.  for sure. we have to feel, then think ahead, to be truly conscious.  and this does not even touch on conscience.  which comes from religions that do not know what they ar talking about.  built upon dead bodies from their wars, sprinkling holy water on the slaves ships. crusades. the Inquisition. firing squads for showing an ankle. a head of hair. a face in public. wars. endorsing Hitler, as he begins the killing of jews. jews killing moslem children ... so conscience is not consciousness either.
    i see, i am aware. i am TOLD they are bad people. but i see all kids as equals. way better than grownups. i see children as the teachers of the Earth. and the children teach the Golden rule as grownups defile it. close it off unto their own religion only. 
   We would do better by getting taught by, and learning from, babies.
why N. Korea hates us; when the US bomber pilots came back to base {in Japan} accomplice to mass murder with no qualms, they had un-sed bombs still hanging on their wings. why asked the General? their is nothing left to bomb except rice paddies. "Then bomb the rice paddies!" he screamed at them.
    make them lose their will to fight. via starvation.  USA making friends out there. see the result? 
    a whole lotta love.