“As long as I can get what’s mine, I don’t care what happens to the rest of the world.” This is a statement that seems to speak of what is heard and witnessed in politics, on cable news, heard from talk shows, and almost all social/cultural aspects of today’s contemporary American life. Do you agree? Is this what we want America to be? Get what you can before someone else gets it first.
If you don’t, perhaps we should do something to stop such mindless self-absorption. Whatever happened to “For the Greater Good?” What ever happened to “Love thy neighbor as thy self?” Whatever happened to “Share and share alike?” Whatever happened to “We’re in this together?” Whatever happened to “We the People?”
I guess it went away when we started building higher and higher fences around ourselves. We have moved into “Gated Communities” so we could get away from the so-called riff-raff. We moved further and further out in the subburbs to escape that uncomfortable feeling. Building homes with entry and motion detecting alarms, surveillance cameras, large ugly guard dogs, and hired security patrols all are the new normal. It’s what we do. It’s what we do to each other.
We live separately in our little Fiefdom. Too paranoid to step out in public. Sidewalks are becoming a thing of the past. Public parks are avoided like some awful disease. “Don’t want to be seen in public. Someone might take a picture and put it on Facebook. Just stay home. Hide in the closet. Don’t answer the doorbell or phone.
“I only talk to my friends on Twitter. I don’t ever talk to strangers at church or in the library. I’m afraid they all would take my money and steal my identity. Please please, back away. Don’t touch me!
Is this who we are? It this life style we wish. Cowering isolationist? “But, someone out there wants my money.” And, we money hoarders must stick together. Where’s my survival kit. Where’s my tribal identity? Am I still on the island?”
How pathetic.
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