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remind me..
Jul. 12th, 2006 08:40 amremind me to stop reading the news..
today......
is more depressing than usual to me for some reason.
It seems like the world is going to hell in a handbasket now.
Once again...
One thing builds on another, and then on one more.
Things are quickly escalating to a point that they will soon be beyond reasonable expectations of control, I fear.
We teetter ever closer to all out world-wide war. In many ways, we are already there, we just don't realize it, or are afraid to call a duck a duck today.
How far have things gone when today, in this country, when there is an accident in a subway, and officials are quick to say, 'there was no evidence of foul play in the derailment.' There was a time, not so long ago, when an accident was an unfortunate accident. Not everything was clouded by the specter of terroriosm, war, foul play.
Words become overused, we become desensitized to them. We begin to accept that this is the way it's always been. When that's not true, it hasn't. We have been indoctrinated into a culture of fear now. Afraid of the shadows, afraid to enjoy the simple pleasures. Parents are afraid of their children to be photographed in the park, so many hide them in their houses, stick them in front of their xboxes, their playstations, where they'll be 'safe'. The government is afraid of us, citizens of this country, to photograph a national monument.
As time goes on, we find out more and more that the goverment has chipped away at our basic rights of personal privacy, all under the umbrella of 'protecting us from terrorisim.'
I find myself, more and more, wondering who will watch the watchers?
I find myself wondering, have things already spun out of all meaure of control?
I know there's no going back.
But I have to question, what's waiting for us in the future?
today......
is more depressing than usual to me for some reason.
It seems like the world is going to hell in a handbasket now.
Once again...
One thing builds on another, and then on one more.
Things are quickly escalating to a point that they will soon be beyond reasonable expectations of control, I fear.
We teetter ever closer to all out world-wide war. In many ways, we are already there, we just don't realize it, or are afraid to call a duck a duck today.
How far have things gone when today, in this country, when there is an accident in a subway, and officials are quick to say, 'there was no evidence of foul play in the derailment.' There was a time, not so long ago, when an accident was an unfortunate accident. Not everything was clouded by the specter of terroriosm, war, foul play.
Words become overused, we become desensitized to them. We begin to accept that this is the way it's always been. When that's not true, it hasn't. We have been indoctrinated into a culture of fear now. Afraid of the shadows, afraid to enjoy the simple pleasures. Parents are afraid of their children to be photographed in the park, so many hide them in their houses, stick them in front of their xboxes, their playstations, where they'll be 'safe'. The government is afraid of us, citizens of this country, to photograph a national monument.
As time goes on, we find out more and more that the goverment has chipped away at our basic rights of personal privacy, all under the umbrella of 'protecting us from terrorisim.'
I find myself, more and more, wondering who will watch the watchers?
I find myself wondering, have things already spun out of all meaure of control?
I know there's no going back.
But I have to question, what's waiting for us in the future?
