(#5495) Our mindless American society

      Do you ever get the feeling that no matter what the atrocity we Americans just keep going on as if nothing really important has just happened? I get that feeling all the time now. The years of the mass shootings even at children's schools has done little to dent the psyche we Americans have hidden behind a very thick wall. This hiding ourselves from dangers is not sustainable and will lead to our downfall as a nation. We are not separated from the world nor from our own country's borders. We cannot nor must not exclude ourselves from the consequences of our whole environment.
     We have problems here that need all of us to work together toward solutions. We have to find our way out of our protective shells so that the real world situations in our own backyard begin to resemble solutions instead of being ignored. Even our foreign policy of promoting democracies around the world is being neglected to the detriment of our own safety and security. As individuals, we have lost the form of a bold person who is excited about the future and what that may become. We are more like caricatures of what we think we are as humans without having to actually be human. We have lost our sense of instinctual living and the reasoning that comes with being logical.
     Not good things are taking place on our watch as the greatest and strongest form of government on the planet yet we shirk those things and continue on like all is okay. We have lost our identity as human beings to be replaced with an illusion of privilege and advantage. We are far less noble than we think we are because we have forgotten that honorable principles require sacrifice. We want for ourselves yet not for all to have even a small fraction of what we carelessly keep with no utility. The pompousness of our character's will lead to only one outcome and that will not be what we thought it to be. If we don't find our way back to being real honorable people then our time in this existence as leaders will be short.