The animalistic impulse of the public

There's a deep need to revert to animals we've spent decades evolving from. From every micro movement to being more eco-conscious, it only sends us back in time- a time that's looked back on, in a sense of joyful reminiscing but changed because the progression was necessary. Our technology changed as expected, there's just one thing that hasn’t progressed as fast as our technology. Our connection to one another. Our relationship to technology and interpersonal relationships has created a rift with our humanity.

The messaging technology used to be that people have never been more connected than ever, while it has in the form of insight into lives we’ll never live, it also has given us endless excuses to disrespect, misinform, and alienate others. Cheering on murders, provoking suicides. The trends are moving too fast for our morals to keep pace. Despite the worldwide connectivity, this generation is the loneliest it's ever been. The resurgence of old insecurities and the creation of new ones, has this generation behaving in the most animalistic ways possible. Tearing each other apart over flaws that can be identified in almost every person because we've lived in emotional ignorance, that gets perpetuated by algorithms designed to seal your life while you endlessly scroll.

They put rapists on pedestals while claiming it's simply a difference of opinion, they kill their blood cells with chemicals believing it'll cure them of flaws they don't even have, then berate others for doing the same thing. This is a generation of deep shame on display. We fling shit at one another under the impression that the one who gets hit is one who was deserving of it, we pray on the innocent out of jealousy of the unencumbered bliss that comes from true kindness and self-esteem.

We pit ourselves against ourselves and label ourselves as "others" and justify the hypocrisy. We make self-hate an aesthetic, turning religion into a government to dictate over those who don't even believe. WE ARE LOST! There are too many options labeled "bad or worse" and instead of searching for the good or simply creating our way, we settle. Or we stay stagnant because of the idea that if we do nothing something will change- YOU ARE WRONG. If everyone is waiting for someone to do something, we will all die waiting. You have to do something. We have to do something. There is a genocide happening while you dance to artists who don't care you're alive. You claim you're protecting your peace while you slowly kill yourself in your cozy beds. Just because you are quiet doesn't mean you are at peace, you're just silent- ignoring the cries of families who need you to hear them, but you're busy "protecting your peace". While they rest in pieces. I don't know what to do but I know I can't sit by and do nothing, so, I do what I can. I ask you to look outside yourself, look in the face of destruction, and get angry! It may not be your home but if it was, you'd want someone to hear your cries from underneath fallen rubble. A new world is around the corner whether you do something or not but it's up to us to decide what that world looks like.

Technology grows with every passing day and it will only progress until someone pulls the plug. When that happens, and we finally look up from our screens, what will we see? Without the influence of others, and you look in the mirror, what would you see? When we stop pretending and truly know ourselves, what would we be? Will we continue to put on a broken mask to face an already shattered society? Or will we fight against the animalistic impulses of the public, to free ourselves from the mental prisons that tell us that there's nothing we can do? Tell me know, which way do you choose?