Lambs to the Slaughter

We are lambs riding a conveyor belt heading straight for the grinder.

In another fifty years, human beings will look back on our present-day society and pinpoint the one invention that lead to our downfall. And no, the invention will not be nuclear weapons or any weapon of war. No, they'll look back and see that our downfall was caused by the centerpiece of nearly every living room in the country, the television.

Television has turned our society into observers. No longer are we men and women of action. No we're simply viewers of life, watching it pass us by and every now and then when life brushes past us, we're powerless to act in any significant way.

Last year there was a story in the news about a psycho who attacked a passenger on the subway with a hammer, beat his brains in, and the fellow passengers sat there and watched, doing nothing. When the attack was over, someone walked over and stole the victim's phone.

Life is an interactive experience, people. We watch injustice in the world and we see it happen and yet we do nothing. The problem with the world isn't that there's injustice and evil, it's that no one is willing to do anything about it because it might be inconvenient. Let someone else deal with it. The only problem is that there is no one else. Where's the sacrifice? Where's the sense of the common good? How would we ever win a war on our own soil if another country attacked? Answer: We wouldn't. No one would be willing to put his/her life on the line for the good of the many. Pathetic...

Our entire species is sitting on that conveyor belt, sitting doe-eyed and happily ignorant of the danger awaiting us. And even when there's a voice of reason SCREAMING for us to move, we don't. We sit and watch, all the way until the grinder tears into our flesh and spits us out on the other end.

"Remember that the only thing that Good has to do in order for Evil to be victorious is nothing."