Degrees of Inhumanity

Outrage isn't what it used to be.
Numbed by a barrage of culturally accepted, media hyped violent images, games, movies and real life violence, America has accepted higher degrees of inhumanity as the "new normal".
As we dumb down our education system and blame it on the teachers, ignore those most in need of our compassion and assistance, accept millions of unemployed fellow citizens -in fact, blame them for their unemployment and refuse to hire them, we plow on toward our goal:
Higher degrees of inhumanity, always with another explanation -another curious sound bite.
Human life in America continues to cheapen.
What other country on this planet is currently fighting three wars?
*yawn* says the dumbed down America. .

When did you forget your money pays for the government?

Interesting that we pay taxes on all levels of government yet we have no rights in the say of they are allocated.
American citizens still haven't gotten the message -Politicians do not represent American citizens anymore.
Politicians represent the top ten percent of America-the wealthy and the corporations.
So vote away, American citizens
You already have voted away your freedoms .

Charlie Sheen-Americans love the self destruct channel

Amusing?  Entertaining?
Or we so disenfranchised from true human emotion that we find it entertaining to watch others meltdowns?
What is it? Cable has created stupidity or stupid people created stupid cable? 29 of 30 cable channels invoke the stupidity/disaster/ignorance theme. Even the History channel invokes the stupidity in television clause.
Americans love it.

Momentary Perspective

Japan's horrible disaster appeared to create about 60 seconds of reflection from our mostly self absorbed, narcissistic country-
After all, what do we REALLY have? Stuff can get washed away in seconds. Entire families can die within minutes, and in some cases, family members will never be located.
As I drive to work in the morning my renewed respect for this earth has me humbly acknowledging the power of  the mountains surrounding Las Vegas.
-Nature has a way of balancing itself- man can only destroy Earth for so long.
We seem to be feeling the effects of natures inability to balance all that we demand from it.
Millions of fish and birds dying, flooding, earthquakes, huge monster storms

If mankind can't get beyond the selfish destruction of its own planet, we will perish.
Earth will have another round of some form of life as it knows it, but we will not.