My parents speak of a time when sleeping with the front door to the house open was a common thing. No one gave much thought to a burglar visiting in the middle of the night, worse the thought of being killed in the process.
Those it seems are the good old days as they say. So how did we get to this stage? There is no limit to which criminals wont go these days. No one or thing is out of range. An evil cloud has descended upon us like a silent thief in the night. But am sure there were signs. Just as there are signs now of even more impending dangers. Can anyone remember when a day passed without a single murder being reported in the news? I can't, so i don't listen and I don't watch anymore. Where did it begin? More of the young are leaving school functionally illiterate. We bread a culture of violence through our politics, our music and movies and our everyday socialization even from our parents. We tend to be a nation of angry people.
We need to spend more time talking to each other. We have become social misfits. No longer willing to listen and so, we don't understand. We all say, "its not going to happen to me", if we sit behind our closed doors and our 20 feet fences, then we are safe. Its the case of, if I cant see you, you can't see me. The head in the sand syndrome. Not all of us can run away, some of us have to stay and fight, America can't and won't take all of us. If we don't handle this crisis, a time will come when we really won't be able to leave our homes without a security escort.
A false sense of security is a sure way of biulding a society of insecurity.
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