glacier_sky86's blog

I’ve always been a slightly absent minded person. Perhaps that’s the wrong way to describe myself. The truth is I can’t ever stop thinking. When I’m bored my mind drifts off and explores situation after situation and idea after idea.

We live in a very sexually open society. The use of sexuality is everywhere we look. While we don’t preach free sex like they did in the hippie days, it is something we seem to embrace. Men or women, we as a society don’t look down on them as we used too (believe me, as a high schooler them seem more praised than shunned)

To compete in the Olympics is one of the highest honors an athlete can ever come by. They have been around for centuries, and for centuries athletes have come and gave it their all.

In our country, just like any other country drugs and prostitution are serious problems. The money made off these two things fuel every gang and criminal organization out there. The smuggling and sale of cocaine alone in the U.S is estimated to be a 35 billion dollar industry.

I have been part of the Catholic Church all my life. When I was a baby my parents had me baptized. As a child I underwent two years of classes to receive my first holy communion. Then as a teenager I underwent two more years of classes in order to prepare me for my confirmation. To this day I attend church every (or almost every) Sunday with my family.

Every society faces one problem that defines it. Our ancestors have problems from nature like the Ice Age, and the Black Death. They have also face war, famine, and hate. I think one of the largest problems our society faces is desensitization.
Heres a couple of everyday images for you:

When you look through all the news and statistics out there, it seems everything bad is on the rise in our society. Child abuse, rapes, murders, gangs, unemployment, eveything is on the rise.
What is it about our society that is breeding this? And are these things really worse that they have ever been?

I saw a special on Primetime, called 'What Would You Do?' One of the stories caught my attention. They did a study, to how many people are willing to the right thing. The situation was this: An overweight woman was sitting on a bench with some food beside her, reading a book, right on the beach. Three skinny teen girls walk up to her and begin verbally ripping her to shreds.