Are We F****** Serious?

Are we f****** serious?

What time are we living in?

Seriously. What time period are we living in right now? What kind of world have we made for ourselves, and why are we so determined to completely deny its existence?

Today, at least 13 students were killed with at least 20 more wounded on a small community college campus. Today, hundreds of people had their lives changed forever, because of the actions of one person.

Not only have these innocent people been killed, maimed, scarred and completely derailed for life, but this is now the societal norm.

Last year in America, there were more than 100 school shootings, ranging everywhere from primary schools to universities, and less than a 1/4 of those even made the news as a relevant “story”.

We now live in an age where our children, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers can’t even gain educations without the fear of someone putting a bullet in the brain. We now live in a world where the lives of strangers are literally disposable and completely beholden to the whim of an egotistical psychopath who got his feelings hurt one too many times.

We have lost our sense of empathy. We have lost our sense of compassion. We have somehow, in our pursuit of hedonistic narcissism and self-absorption, now decided that it is not nature, karma or even a “God” that will make the decisions, but ourselves. We have made ourselves god and are now seeing the cost - with the rape, murder, desecration and utter destruction of our planet, our people and our entire global society.

For those of us who can still feel, who can still see between the bars of our social-media laden prisons, this life is one full of misery, suffering and pain. This is an age the was not made for or by those who still hold the mystical ability to feel. This is an age succored at the teat of cold indifference and self-absorption.

American society has become a breeding ground for mental illness and savage discontent. We have melted down our lives and poured them into tiny grey boxes, heedless of the needs of the human heart. We have taken away its ability to feel, to live, to love or to breathe. We have suffocated it to the point of explosion, and we are beginning to see the results of that suffocation. We move on from day till night, sitting blind behind cold screens, talking to cold digital friends, and going home to cold dismal meals. We have stolen from our world all the color, the passion, the emotion the love. We are robots, cold, unemotional, unmoved.

We have created a world so suffocating and colorless that our children now think that the only way they can possibly show the world how they feel is to murder them by the hundreds or the thousands. They spray their worlds with black and red and extinguish even more light and color from the room. The pain inside them is strong, the hate so intense, the rage so consuming, that the only escape they can find is the explosive and gruesome results of a mass shooting.

The event at Umpqua Community College is a turning point. This is now the time that we must decided who we want to be and what kind of world we want to leave for our grandchildren. Can we bear a world in which children are shot and killed simply attempting to receive an education? Or do we want to take a stand and make a change? The choice must come soon.

Before it’s too late.