What in the hell is going on.................

[KarmaContestant]

I think there are many causes. Our American culture that values fame, business and money more than responsibility, community, justice and love. Our obsession with work that leaves little time for parenting and family. Reality TV that constantly glorifies violence and heightened personal drama at the expense of others. A political system that permeates every facet of our daily lives with an us versus them polarity. A mentality that we're all 'special' just because we walk and talk. A complete and total lack of patience, because everything is instant, and there's a perception that nothing which requires waiting is worth waiting for. I could go on and on. And while there are finer details of every point that could be argued endlessly, it's really all summed up by the simple fact that our culture is at the most vapid, greedy, consumeristic, me-me-me point in it's history. There's no "us" anymore unless it's to pit us against them. Our culture is sour, rotten to the core, and it manifests in our children. They get it from the adults in their lives, from observing the way we treat and talk to each other.

When I move a certain way
I feel an ache I can't debate
A hairline break that's taking hold...

I'm feeling broadly melancholy and esoteric today. Mostly life is good, until you look around with your eyes and heart *open* and see that it's not.

It's just so obvious that it's all connected. You only to have to step up and away for a moment, and then look down to see it, like a yellow cloud over our lives, everywhere. It's called selfishness.