Idiocracy

Idiocracy, here we come….



How did we go from times when art was on canvas or clay, to defacing the natural beauty of the human body?



How did we go from family shows that made us smile, laugh and feel good, to cutting people up on a slab and talking about murder for an hour straight?



How did we go from caring about people’s well being, to watching people beat the crap out of each other during ultimate fighting contests?



How did we go from respecting nature and food, to completely trying to alter it?



How did we go from common courtesy, to only caring about ourselves without considering others?



How did we go from respecting our bodies, to finding more and more ways to mess it up just to feel good?



How did we go from an age where dreamers were admired, to an age where they’re laughed at if they’re not making tons of money?



How did we go from an age where companies cared about their employees, to an age where they’re nothing more than a number?



How did we go from a time where we laughed at the intricacies of comedy, to a time where someone getting hit by a car on the screen illicits laughter from the younger crowd?



How did we go from a time where accidents happened, to a time where parents will sue a family if their child hurts themselves on their driveway?



How did we go from a time where we were allowed to protect ourselves, to a time where we can sometimes be put in jail for doing so if a person had a lawyer who twisted the law to somehow make it seem like we were at fault?



How did we go from a time where people were happy and felt grateful for what they had, to a time when they were miserable because they kept focusing on what they didn’t?



How did we go from a time when writing, art, and theater were cultural passions of only the advanced, to a time where those pursuits are now just considered to be pursuits of the gay or the snooty?  Intellectual interest don’t have to mean either.



How did we go from the beautiful art of making love to pornos when we think of how to have sex?



How did we go from protecting people to protecting the bottom line?



How did we go from the natural to the artificial?



How did we go from trust to constant skepticism?



How did we go from men being the potential to be good to men being a Lifetime movie in the making?



How did we go from lady-like to Girls Gone Wild?



How did we go from childhood toys that allowed us to be creative, to toys that did everything for us?



How did we go from paying attention to the people we were with, to typing on our phones in their presence?



How did we go from dating in real life to spending an eternity online with someone and never seeing them?



How did we go from a civilized society to one out for blood?



How did we go from wanting freedom to taking that freedom away from other countries?  We wouldn’t that done to ourselves, would we?



How did we go from being there for our kids, to always wanting them to have more stuff than we did so we never end up being there for them?



How did we go from buying what we can afford to buying something for show?



Society can continue to think it’s evolving by all of its technological leaps and bounds but we, as humans, are most certainly going the opposite direction.



Just something to think about.