progress.

One of the few/many drawbacks of living in this generation is having to come to terms with the fact that we have been spoiled silly by technology. I can't even begin to imagine what it's going to be like for the next generation that is growing up with the internet and youtube, where almost any kind of information/media can be accessed at any time of the day.
With the advent of the information superhighway, mankind has never been closer to the dream of consolidating all human knowledge in one place; however, this overload of information has had a less than positive effect on our youth.

I was twelve when the United States invaded Iraq.
I watched on TV as Baghdad was lit up on night vision with the flashes from hundreds of our tracers and bombs, and less than two months later I watched our president shake hands and smile with subsequent reassurances of a "mission accomplished," a "job well done."

Five years later I still find it hard to believe that we have spent (and continue to spend) over $500 billion dollars in a war that has cost us over 4,000 military deaths and for the Iraqis close to 100,000 civilian deaths.

Then again, those are numbers that took me about 40 seconds to find using google.

But every day I continue to eat well, sleep well, and dream well.
Because 4,000, 100,000, 300,000, 6,000,000- those numbers don't mean a thing to me.
I didn't have to see their faces.

I don't want to see their faces.

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."

-Joseph Stalin

Everything in this world is being slowly and systematically broken down into information that we can digest, and this generation is slowly but surely becoming indifferent to the world at large- we've stopped feeling,
and we've stopped caring.
Natural disasters caused by earthquakes and hurricanes.
Unnatural disasters caused by bombs and guns and hate and fear.

But who believes what they see on TV anyway?

...Bradbury was right.

This is our world.

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing."