i don't get it.

i've been in a very bloggy mood lately. i usually don't blog a lot, but i was just reflecting recently about how much fear we live in today. it's amazing to me. i really don't get it...we consider ourselves to be advanced in technology and quality of living, there are still many things that have stayed the same. ignorance, racism...we fill our homes with tvs, we have all access to worldwide information at our fingertips, we can hop on a plane and go to another city, another country if we choose - yet we fill our minds with junk, we turn a blind eye to the world. you would think that with the easy access we have to these things, we would take advantage of that to advance our minds, open up our way of thinking, explore the world. what's sad to me is that we CHOOSE to live this way. no one is holding a gun to our heads and forcing us to live the way we do, watch what we watch. it's a choice. it's inherent for people to look inward within themselves to fulfill their immediate needs or urges versus looking outward and looking beyond themselves, pouring themselves into others lives and enriching quality of life in other people.