Seven Deadly Sins of Modern America
By Mark Velasquez
29 Apr 2007
Our world isn't perfect. We know this.
Sadly, we are made more and more aware of this due to modern technologies which show us the dirty secrets, hidden struggles, psychoses, and neurological disorders that occur in some of our closest friends, relatives, and even our very selves. We learn of these things not from any clinical medical study or objective magazine article, but from personal disasters, public mental breakdowns, and horrific deadly accidents. Some are minor offenses; childhood dalliances with rebellion, petty desires, bouts of fear or self-loathing. Others are far worse.
Most of these problems we sort of realized. We suspected the depths of just how bad we could be, but secretly hoped we could ignore it until the negative parts of ourselves went away. Now we cannot avoid admitting such nature on a daily basis when we are inundated by a world made up of 24-hour news coverage and the ever presence of camera phones.
I'm not being preachy or self-righteus, I am guilty of one or two of these things myself. We all are. Unfortunately, now we have to often publicly own up to it. Frankly, all of this knowledge scares a lot of us, even myself sometimes. Maybe things are better elsewhere.
Myself, I might be moving to Canada.
