Man's Worse Enemy

You saw bears, lions, lionesses and tigers ready to take on society not knowing their violence and rage was seen every day. One by one as they made their way towards humans they were shot. They laid there lifeless, eyes staring ahead. Their bodies were wounded, riddled with bullets after being stopped from any destruction they could’ve done. Those were the forty-eight animals that ran loose in the streets of Ohio as if it was a jungle. People were told to stay inside their cars, homes and schools until they were captured or rendered silent. Terry Thompson was the owner of those wildlife animals and set them free before taking his own life. He owed more than $68,000 in unpaid taxes and had recently been in prison for possessing unregistered weapons. It was obvious he was under a lot of pressure and had more than enough.

 We hear of people being killed, children raped or sodomized, elderly being hurt, companies being ripped off, hard earned savings lost because of greedy and corrupt individuals, teens beating each other into the ground, priests accused of child molestation and popes moving them around to avoid prosecution; those acts are committed by humans, that’s the society we live in. Sometimes people who walk with two legs behave worse than animals. 

History has shown that people have been tortured and burned alive, wars have been fought trying to gain freedom, the holocaust took the lives of many to preserve one race, and many people have been used as guinea pigs injected with a disease to see how they react to a drug; those acts are committed by humans, that’s the society we live in.

 The depraved mindset of many with their sex toys and games, the living for today and doing what feels good making spectacles out of themselves when they undress in public and parade the street as if it was nothing; the lascivious behavior that is accepted by many, pictures posted on Facebook or YouTube displaying their outrageous and scandalous conduct, texting and sexting that goes on by individuals that have lost all control. The very ones who do this may be your neighbor, friend, boss, employer or family member. This is the 21^st Century, the age of technology, where the World Wide Web has reached places one reads about in books. The one we know too well where news travels at the speed of light and people are there to inform you of violence and disgraceful acts. 

Today many are disenfranchised and forgotten, many have chosen to stake out days and months on end to protest to the world that they’re sick and tired of their circumstance; like a domino effect its spread from state to state, country to country. Sometimes you ask them what they’re protesting and many don’t have an answer they just want to be part of the crowd, they want to be part of history. The history they’re talking about is the condition the world is in. There are others that come up with something worth listening to, they’ve been out of a job for too long, are broke and have nowhere to turn. 

A woman stood outside where she worked and said she didn’t understand how sitting out and protesting would get people jobs. She had one they didn’t. Would she like to trade places? Would she like to feel the desperation many do knowing they can’t feed their family? Would she like to have those bills come in and not be able to pay them? Would she like to stand in long lines just to fill out an application? Would she like to go to interview after interview and hear the same thing, “We’ll get back to you?” Would she like to go to sleep at night and worry about not having any money? Would she like it if she wondered how she was going to pay her medical bills? 

 These are the fools that don’t understand, the very ones that get on the radio and spew their stupidity about how everything seems to be okay. These are the same idiots that see how people are polluting the environment and animals are losing their habitat because of global warming yet in their eyes it doesn’t exist. 

Politicians know exactly how bad things are yet they say they can do better than the one whose running things. Sadly many believe that someone else can make it go away; that will never happen.  Man has become too greedy and self- absorbed to care about others. 

History will continue to repeat itself until the lesson is learned. What lesson hasn’t been learned? Man is his worst enemy.