The Great Escape

Buzzing uncontrollably — Surviving the Modern World.*

What’s easier, knowing everything or knowing nothing?

Getting a drone's eye view of the modern Earth, you can't help but see that no matter how large the population, there are vast numbers of unoccupied spaces. Not only this, but the sheer expanse of Planet Earth means that there is simply not enough technology to give everybody access to the same levels of information and resources.

Deliberately keeping people uneducated, or censoring access to all but the basics, lessens the load on developing nations to provide so much for so many with so little.

Problems begin when families become satellites—some members benefiting, others left behind—after moving from poorer, more remote regions to more heavily supported infrastructures that provide them with the means they need to develop.

Next comes the challenge that limited backgrounds inject into this development process, and the struggles begin.

Complex ideas pile up. For the inexperienced, they start to feel real, even when they aren’t. And with them comes a creeping sense of inadequacy—one that shuts down all but the more resilient.

This is where the great escape begins.

Is addiction a social problem brought about through hedonistic pursuit?

Or is there a greater underlying desire?

Drugs are an escape. Booze is an escape. Soap operas and gossip are an escape.

These distractions are sought after so as to provide a way to not have to face the complexities of the modern world.

People surrender to what they think is inevitable and pump anything adrenaline-fueled that helps shut out the demands of a world they are not always adequately prepared for. Ignoring social rules, disrespecting others, and selfishness are the price newer generations gladly pay to escape commitments they neither want to understand nor abide by for any longer than is absolutely necessary.

Let’s rave. Let’s race our cars in forbidden zones. Let’s steal, maim, destroy—pump that adrenaline through our veins until it hurts. Blow the consequences. We probably won’t live long enough to even be punished.

And if you think that this is only the very poor, then you are sadly mistaken. The past, the present, and future generations are totally unable to cope.

Then throw in the inconsequential decision-making of nations bent on fighting more and more wars.

With the world buzzing uncontrollably around us—don’t we all crave escape, just once, before it crashes completely?

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