On My Soap Box
Katrina was bad, but she's nothing compared to the evil our own countrymen are capable of. I hope that once this is all over, one good thing to come of it is that this country will be forced to take a long, unpleasant look at itself.
We, as a society, have separated ourselves from each other to the point of ignorance. We stay in our houses with our flat-screen TV's, play our video games, text-message our friends in Idaho, and make sure our high-tech security systems keep everyone out. When we leave our houses, we glue a cell phone or iPod to our ears. We all drive to work alone, work in cubicles, surf the Internet, eat on the go, and then drive ourselves back home. Strangers are seen as intruders, we're rude when we don't get our way, we're impatient, and we are all selfish. We know more about the life of the hot "It" actor than we do our neighbor's.
Women are killed, beat-up, raped, and disrespect in every form of entertainment we have. Rape isn't viewed as a violent crime. Women don't report abuse because we don't want to shame ourselves. We're portrayed as tit-holders who like to shop in shows like "Sex and the City", and we make it popular. We don't demand to get paid the same amount of money for doing the same job as a man. We're held up to a standard of beauty that's impossible to reach and we just take it.
As a society, we all think we are right, and we feel we have the right to kill you if you don't agree. We dwell on issues that will never be resolved and feed off issues that are meaningless to this society. You won't know if God exists until you die, so why waste your life trying to argue the point? We're so wrapped up in our own belief's that we don't pay attention to the teachings of those beliefs.
We've learned that we're not very nice. All those other countries that call us materialistic, barbaric, and savage have been proven right. We need more compassion and tolerance in this country. We need to care more about our community than our possessions. We've learned that we can't depend on our government to make all the decisions. We've learned that we need to become better people.
We have no one to blame but ourselves for being surprised at what went down in New Orleans.
We, as a society, have separated ourselves from each other to the point of ignorance. We stay in our houses with our flat-screen TV's, play our video games, text-message our friends in Idaho, and make sure our high-tech security systems keep everyone out. When we leave our houses, we glue a cell phone or iPod to our ears. We all drive to work alone, work in cubicles, surf the Internet, eat on the go, and then drive ourselves back home. Strangers are seen as intruders, we're rude when we don't get our way, we're impatient, and we are all selfish. We know more about the life of the hot "It" actor than we do our neighbor's.
Women are killed, beat-up, raped, and disrespect in every form of entertainment we have. Rape isn't viewed as a violent crime. Women don't report abuse because we don't want to shame ourselves. We're portrayed as tit-holders who like to shop in shows like "Sex and the City", and we make it popular. We don't demand to get paid the same amount of money for doing the same job as a man. We're held up to a standard of beauty that's impossible to reach and we just take it.
As a society, we all think we are right, and we feel we have the right to kill you if you don't agree. We dwell on issues that will never be resolved and feed off issues that are meaningless to this society. You won't know if God exists until you die, so why waste your life trying to argue the point? We're so wrapped up in our own belief's that we don't pay attention to the teachings of those beliefs.
We've learned that we're not very nice. All those other countries that call us materialistic, barbaric, and savage have been proven right. We need more compassion and tolerance in this country. We need to care more about our community than our possessions. We've learned that we can't depend on our government to make all the decisions. We've learned that we need to become better people.
We have no one to blame but ourselves for being surprised at what went down in New Orleans.
posted by Barbarian02003 | Thursday, September 08, 2005
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