Small Talk Soda

Had a conversation with a chance-meeting-associate and we both share the same opinion.


He asked me if I thought that people were becoming much more desperate and aggressive because of the era we lived in or if people have always been this harsh and we just never knew it. We talked about the growing number of parents murdering their children, the blatant abuse of power by politicians and corporations, the fact that the majority of society sits back and waits for someone else to stand up and fix the problem, and the growing numbers of natural disasters around the globe.

I suggested that while the desperation is a sign of the times, I believed human beings have always done the vile things that we see on television and newsfeeds every day. The only reason we were never really aware of it was because the world did not possess the technological advantage of television and newsfeeds. Killing children may seem taboo, but they are certainly not off limits. Hollywood has heavily increased the amount of violence towards children in their movies and television programs because – 1) it’s a cheap shock to most audiences– and 2) it’s fresh on peoples’ minds.

Just as every successful civilization has risen and fallen at the hands of man’s adherence for greed (Egypt, Rome, Germany, soon to be added – America), people sit back and wait for a leader to rise. However, since the population is the largest it has ever been, we have far more followers, ingrates, and drooling masses than we do true leaders and none of these leaders are going to be allowed near a potentially successful political campaign because their good intentions are vastly outnumbered by the ignorant and the corrupt.

As for the natural disasters, Earth has never had to support the population that it does now, so all of the natural disasters we are witnessing now is planet Earth doing what it needs to do to survive.

All we've done throughout history is go around and around in circles before becoming a ring of fire, and there's a fresh match about to be lit.