How humanity has wound up where it is is of no mystery: technology, improper guidance, and the lack of a backbone that created powerful nations such as the United States of America. Long gone are the days where unity was practiced by the smaller voices of those who sought betterment. Long gone is the integrity of our contemporary generations and, quite possibly, the generations to come. In an era of numerable armchair bloggers and vloggers, we have managed to breed thousands of critics to the ratio of one leader. With the utmost amount of freedom, we have created chaos. Now, we can look at America, the melting pot of the world, and witness the destruction of diversity. There have been dreams upon dreams of the day when our ethnicity, beliefs, and various backgrounds could be overlooked, but, as it is with most individuals, you can’t be grateful for the love that surrounds you until you have nothing left. Until we can all get along, we can only accept the possibility that different ethnicities were never meant to entwine (which can hardly be said due to the fact of happily living interracial couples) or that humanity just isn’t ready to harness the limitless ability of unconditional consideration for one another.
The world is on its way to hell in a hand basket and nobody is willing to take the blame. Instead, people point their fingers at the nearest outlet. It is always the government‘s fault, or parents, or scientists, or the neighbor three doors down’s parakeet. Once upon a time, our forefathers, and the bold men and women and children after them, took a stand against injustices in great numbers. They used to group up in conglomerations so great and camp out on the lawn of the Whitehouse, refusing to do anything else until terms were agreed on. Now what? People are too focused on money and trolling that they don’t even know the horrors that are seeping into the cracks of morality and grandeur that society once upheld. They believe that the internet is all that is needed to set things straight. When people do manage to join ranks, it tends to be for the wrong reasons. Deaths have been wrought from the inability to compromise. You have pro-life preachers who are willing to blow up buildings and kill adults for the sake of their cause, and you have pro-choice defenders killing off pro-life people. This vicious cycle can be extended to various other conventions all around the world.
The fact of the matter is that we are no longer states claimed united. We can call it determinism or we can call it the result of free will, but the American dream of freedom can hardly exist in a nation of stubbornly butting heads nonstop. Somewhere down the line, when crime rates increased, sexual taboos surfaced, electronics flourished, and the freedom to be free has reached its sadistic limits to the point of decisions on one side of a topic being acted upon based on political favoritism, humanity lost everything. These common times have become nothing more than a mechanical schedule. We wake up, go to work, eat, sleep, and repeat. We are mentally trapped within a routine that we hate, yet lack the common sense to make a stance. Occasionally there will be someone who sees the world for what it is, and maybe that is when a leader is born. If we are lucky, perhaps that individual can become the hero we need. If we are unlucky, that individual may see the corruption as not worth living in, and maybe that is why there are those who step out into traffic, hoping that their mortality reaches its endpoint.
More than ever could Earth could use a hero who can inspire with their writing, provoke action with their voice, make a stance where others are too terrified. The superheroes who were once idolized are no more. They have become imprisoned by the merciless critics who become so bitter on account of their own insecurities. What happened to truth, justice, and the American way? How could people have lost the foresight of dreams and become so focused on doing whatever they want with no consideration for the future? Those with the ability to make a difference have the responsibility to make a difference. There will come a time when society will have no other option but to take a look in the mirror and see their faults. They will see the guilt they buried. They will see the potential that they had, and the potential that they still have. They will see that it is not too late to make a difference. They will see that it isn’t the government that they should fear, but rather the government that should fear them. And they will see the evil. We can only hope that when that time comes, they will see that they are not alone, and that once more, unity for justice can overpower the atrocities and shadows that have consumed our morality, honor, responsibility, and love.
