All too true...

While reading the essay from Thomas Zengotita, "The Numbing of the American Mind," I could only agree with him. Yes, Americans have become numb to all the sensory perceptions that make us humans. With each passing day we are turning into robot like forms put on the conveyor belt of life. We can still make our own choices but how much of those actually come from the depths of your individuality? From what Zengotita explains, not a whole lot. The sad part is that it is inevitable. We are doomed to this way of life. There seems to be no going back. Once you are desensitized, have seen all there is to be seen, the worse of the worse; it's hard to imagine things ever going back. How much worse can it get? I fear that some day, soon, possibly we could live in uproar and total anarchy, that cannot be contained. We will all be swallowed up in our own mess of destruction.
Wow, pretty gloomy thought. I can only hope that it never gets that bad. It makes it hard for me to ever want to have children someday, which would be far from now, and try to raise them right in a world like this. I am pretty optimistic, you know, the glass is always half full. I think that if we all put in a little effort, stop thinking about ourselves, and star caring about what this world could come to; our extinction. They say that every great civilization there ever was, would one day collapse, leaving only traces of artifacts to piece together it's clues to how it was. Could it happen to us? Possibly, probably. If we all want to survive this thing called life, we must come together, we are humans, we don't have to be robots who are controlled and mechanicalized.
It could be a great existence. Each of us have such a short time here, we need to make it count. We need to leave our foundation of accomplishments for the next generations to come.

"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."- Buddha