This post made me lol

. But on a more serious note, things like this seem to happen quite often in the [Police] States. I blame the processed food, it makes everyone crazy. Oh and the 300 year history of racism, slavery, segregation and general hatred, there's also that. Ancient grudge break to new mutiny, civil hands unclean etc. etc.
The world IS becoming rather scary: more surveillance, more crime, more war (Iraq: Part 2 anyone?), more hatred, more consumerism, more obesity, more obscurity, less equality (social, political and especially economical), less understanding, less safety, less satiety.
More than that, the world is just plain weird, one half of the world dies from too much, the other half from too little. One half prides itself in "freedom" but will ignore it in the pursuit of security, the other half, so far removed from either that they have nothing TO ignore or lose or give up. One half complains about everything all the time, the other half doesn't have the means to complain. One half has a problem with people living too long, the other half with people dying too fast. One half preaches peace, the other half dies for it. One half enjoys the comforts of modern society, the other half suffers its immeasurable costs.
The decision-makers are indecisive, the negotiators, uncompromising, the popular representatives, extremes. The few have many, the many, few. People we should trust, lie. People we should protect, die. People we listen to: either critics or hypocrites, never truly sincere. Celebrity to the irresponsible, attention to the inconsequential, fascination with the irrelevant. Distracted, deluded, dumb, deaf and pretty soon dead.
These are our lives. These are our times. This is what the world is coming to. And yet, the still greater paradox: the eternal parable of immutability, of nothing new under the sun. History is a spring, we move upwards, but we do it in circles and all the while we're screwed.
And so, "man hands on misery to man, it deepens like a coastal shelf; So get out while you can, and don't have any kids yourself!"
Rant Over
Shihab Out