The Fear

Modern society is slowly learning, gradually opening it's eyes to the
horror the human race has been shunning and ignoring since the dawn of
self awareness. Culture today is addressing the issue which has
plagued the entire populus at one stage or another, the troubling
notion that's gripped each of us in times of severity. Religion is
slowly wavering, crumbling at the realisation of it's pure
ridiculousnous, people loosing faith and belief at rapid rates. The
world as we know it is looking at it dead in the eyes but we are still
stubborn to collectively admit it, we're all so disheartened that we
don't even speak up about it, as if it's sheer discussion could bring
about some apocalpyse. But we all know it. All of us. We all can feel
it, creeping out of our consciousness, dawning in our minds and
eclipsing the heart. It's caused madnesss, murder, Suicide and god
knows how many depravities of man and woman alike. We fear the very
prospect of it, yet we can't deny it's reality. It's the governing
idea that shapes everyday life in our age. That maybe, possibly,
perhaps, we have no reason. We have no meaning. We have no purpose.

The Contemplation

Fear, anger, vengence, some of the core driving forces for people in today's world. The problem with us, with us all, why we are who we are, is because of the growing realisation that there is, nothing. We are nothing, we are so insignifcant people begin to take their own lives in the fact they do not matter. In a ever increasingly distant culture and world, where do we find meaning, when the simplest of pleasures can be fulfilled by technology and modern practices. The human 'love' is slowly being replaced by easier, faster solutions to feel needed, loved, wanted. To be desired gives many meaning. To be loved is such a joy to many. I don't mean there is anything wrong with the niceities of life, but there can be too much of a good thing. Power corrupts, love egotises, desire becomes addictive, wealth looses it's value. 
 In a ever changing and speeding up world of today, how do we find balance? How do we gain our equilbrium? In a world where the horrors of human action can beexperiencedwith the push of a button on a gamepad away for the youngest of our kind, where does this leave our knowledge of right and wrong? How do make moral judgements in a species that is becoming desensitised to the very plights of our fellow kind? You walk past a tramp on the street asking for money, some of you may even try to not even acknowledge his presence. Some of you make the effort to pick out your spare change. Though really, how are either of you a good example of what is 'right'? 
 Kindness towards one another is now a means of 'favours', "you owe me one", a simple gesture, a honest gesture though? Most of us will even huff puff and whine, maybe just to ourselves, in having to do something for someone else. How our own lives any more important than anothers? Yet we are selfish, we only look out for number one, the human species has 'conquered' every corner of the planet, yet we can't even help our closests. There is no link anymore, we are all so 'evolved' that we have now become able to deny assisting another if us. Individuality and uniqueness has spolit us. It has made us fat, lazy, self obsessed and broken us off from being able to simply, care. 
 Family, friends, lovers, today these are no different than a toaster, a Atm, a website. Commodity culture has now successfully privatised 'love'.