disconnection.

It's become an endless stream of distractions. None of you seem to notice or care...and I'm just as guilty of it, which drives me to near insanity. It's as if reality has become this disease that society has suddenly declared war upon, and we're seeking to destroy it through any means possible. The anti-bodies? Smart phones, social networking, television, and the internet at large. Suddenly, there's a parallel existence to plug into where everyone finds a way to avoid seeing the elephant in the room, but you never really escape it. It's always there, pissing and shitting on your floor, leaving you to clean up the mess when you log off and check back in. So, what's the cost? Everything. These small increments, the tiny pieces of ground we all give day-by-day to things we know better than to indulge breeds weakness, and in turn we're destroying not only the existence of worthwhile culture on a broader level but our own minds. Learning is beautiful. Information is the most valuable thing we covet outside of our own emotions, but instead people pay money to immerse themselves in virtual reality to fight trolls and catalog their 'unique personality' by clicking the 'Like' button on Facebook.