Graham: "It's the sense of touch."

Ria: "What?"

Graham: "Any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people. People bump into you. In LA, nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something."

Police officer: "You guys okay?"

Ria: "I think he hit his head."

(Opening lines, Crash, 2004)


What's happening to our world? Who are we anymore? I mean truly, who are we? Our world has gotten so much smaller, but we're so much farther apart.

Everyone says it's something, but no one says what it isn't anymore. Where's the love that was once in this world? Where is the nurturing? The morality? Our sense of being? When did our society start suffering with an identity crisis?

What are we?

We don't care about each other anymore. "Live and let live" taken to an extreme. Stay out of everyone's business. Who cares who ends up hurt, as long as it's not me. Let's not get involved. Don't touch. Don't feel. Don't care. As long as it's not me.

When did we start dying? Here we touch each other through plastic and feigning our emotions for fear of the way we're perceived. Our honesty shredding, our morality laying in hiding, our faith in pieces, our kindness, our love missing in action. Are we losing our war of self versus love? How can it be, when our world is so small, that we've ended up pulling so deep inside our shells that we've forgotten the rest?

Oh yes, but we're "better off" our technological advances, our knowledge, our "civilization" is so much more "mature." Right? Isn't it true? We don't need to touch anymore. We don't need to talk. We see. We judge. Let the rest be left alone.

We don't work anymore. We don't do without. We think that if we give half of what we could give is okay, because to the person who we're giving whatever it may be to it's more than they could have hoped for.

When did we become so greedy? So vain? So selfish?

I hear of celebrities, politicians, making these donations to charities. Oh yes, they're nice donations. But not as much as they could truly give. I'm not asking for these people who have worked (I'll give benefit of doubt here) hard for their money/time should give it all away. But their donations are so meager compared to what they really could afford to give.

I'm not calling myself innocent. I've forgotten the heart. I've forgotten the soul. I've wrapped into myself, the way the rest of society has.

Our obsession with looks is extreme. I watched a story about actresses and how they're losing weight. These women are ill. They are consumed with their weight, their look. Why should that make an actress good? Shouldn't it be their portrayal of a character be what determines them worthy of the fame they now receive for being... thin? For being so skinny you can see all their bones?

It's PROVEN that we're obsessed with these looks. There have been studies of places before and after "our" television has been brought in. Before our media was exposed to these cultures, there were NO incidents of eating disorders. After, there were. Many.


::sigh:: I'm ranting. Just thinking too much today. I tend to hate people when I think lol

Maybe I hit my head...