Surface People pt. I ( a WiSH rambling digression )

I realized after I initially said it, that this is not a very good title for this article as it sounds as if I am referring to people who live above the ground and that we might be battling some underground cave dwellers…hmm…

What I am writing about here is the general tendency of people to just take things on it’s surface value. Okay, maybe that is not accurate either, because the more I think about it…

I think that we accept so much of the information that we are fed out of the media that we are easily duped. We believe what we see and what we are told. And even worse we see celebrities and think that they are the norm and their lifestyles are ones that we rationalize into our own mistakes and bad choices.

A lot of this has to do with technology and our need for speed, convenience, instant gratification, etc. We  are flustered these days when something takes more than 5 minutes when a decade or three ago it took probably weeks or months to complete the exact same task.

Yeah, yeah, i know this has been said before, but I don’t think a lot of people really think about the reasons behind this and also what it will ultimately lead to. Coming from a Christian, this may seem to be a defeatist attitude. Oh well, I’m trying to help here.

The reasons why we want things faster and easier is not because we are some bunch of geniuses “figuring it all out”. Trust me, the old timers with a lot more experience than you or I can and will tell you the benefits of taking it slow, savoring, smelling the roses and taking a nap. Has “Where’s the dang fire, son?” ever been yelled at you and you thought “There ain’t no fire, I just gots thangs ta do!”?

Here are some of the problems that we face. And I firmly believe that problems start small and work their way up to a friggin’ hailstorm.

We get so much fast and quick today AND there are actual benefits to this, BUT  we actually just live our lives as if EVERYTHING should go that fast. The speed of light seems to be the goal in ALL things because we all have something else we need to be doing. Some of the reasons that we want to get through some things fast is so that we can get to spend more time doing the things we should savor, but we have forgotten what things we want to savor.

I have this theory that the reason why so many people are willing to hurt, rob, kidnap, murder, rape, pillage, etc. others is because we have become so detached and desensitized. Mainly because of the media hurled at us but  also because we have all of these kids having kids and babies having babies. They don’t know how to raise someone else because they aren’t finished being raised themselves. No one says “excuse me” or “yes sir” or “yes ma’am” anymore because these idiot kids who don’t have any respect for others are raising other idiots who will be twice as screwed up as their parents and people start to lose interaction with others because they won’t even look at or acknowledge the existance of the person they just walked in front of in the video store without so much as a “pardon me” or “sorry, I didn’t see you there” because they just don’t care anymore.

So they would just as soon shoot you for your tennis shoes or your iPod as sneeze on you and be ticked off because you were in the way of their snot. ( great scott I scare myself sometimes)

BTW…digression is one of my special talents.

Check this out…We see movies where large numbers of people are blown up or shot or in some way disposed of and we think that it doesn’t affect us to see it on the tv or big screen. So we “Adults” feel that little johnny who is 12 years old is old enough to handle this stuff  because we are too lazy to raise the child that is less than a decade and a half younger than his parent  ( I left the “s” off of that for a reason) and then wonder why junior pops a cap in you because he couldn’t play on his x-box…or however you spell that crap.

Ever pay attention to the amount of kids being molested, kidnapped or simply murdered lately? Ever notice how family members are taking each others lives and then their own? No one will face the truth because we don’t EVER want accountability. We try to blame others for our actions because we are ALL genius perfect people who have all the answers but fail to see the bombs getting closer to our own homes and in our own backyards.

I was watching CNN a number of years ago. The reporter was excitedly announcing the amazing technological marvel that was available. This was at least 5 years ago so this is scary for me. Anyways…She was talking about this refrigerator that when items in the box got low, like an 8th of a gallon of milk or some such depletion, the Fridge would order groceries to replenish itself. You never have to go to the grocery store again.

If that doesn’t scare the dickens out of you then you are probably next on either the outside or inside of the car trunk. ( for those in the cheap education seats that means you are either the kidnapper or the kidnap-pee ) Not sure if I spelled that right, but I actually took the recommendation of spell checker. I am going to be as dumb as a doorknob soon. keep those snide remarks to yourself.

I am sure that I am going to revise this article to clarify some of my thoughts and views on this, but I am glad to finally get some of this out of my system! Do with it what you will. I’m prayin’ for you AND me! Besides this is just part 1 so I can elaborate as the inspiration hits me!!