remind me..
Jul. 12th, 2006 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slipstreamsurfrremind 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?
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Date: 2006-07-12 03:06 pm (UTC)What's wrong with young people today?
*Who cares?
*They need at least three energy drinks before they can be bothered to do anything.
*They think the world is gay and none of it's their fault.
*They're all pretentious pricks.
*Microwaves.
*They need instant gratification.
*They prefer an easy day's reward to a hard day's work.
*None of them have done anything worth a damn.
*Being happy is expensive, because they're all consumer whores.
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Date: 2006-07-12 04:50 pm (UTC)There's a connection, I think, to the mentality that "everything happens for a reason". If it's not terrorist, then "God did it" to punish the gays, or something equally banal. Some people have tremendous difficulty living in a Universe where things sometimes "just happen".
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Date: 2006-07-12 10:11 pm (UTC)I am not sure about that. There's certainly is a way to re-center ourselves. Countries do it when they have to. Look at us in the late 60s and early 70s. It was a nasty brutal time then. I always assumed drug use during that period was primarily to keep people from dropping into utter despair over the state of things. The 80s were not great, but certainly better in regards to us believing that our government was a horrible flailing monstrosity. That came at a price as well, though. Yet it was easier then to actually have a certain latitude of freedom from government interference in too many things simply because there was a totalitarian government that we wanted to "show" and not just tell about freedom. Now it's all about the "tell" of our freedom from Bush and friends, and the reality is that we don't have to show anyone but ourselves anymore, and so there can be significantly less freedom since there's no proper copmarison point or creakinginly out of date totalitarian regime to say "See, we are free and progressing as a country and even as a species." (Not to say that the 80s didn't have a massive downside, because, hoo BOY did it. But we made it through that easier than we're going to make it through this.)