the degenerative sprial towards numbness

As usual, going into these things, I never know exactly what I am going to say. It makes it even harder when the idea of what I should write about is not even my own. This was a request from a good friend of mine, and I think it's a topic worth writing about. It needs to be at least brought up and made known.

The topic is Leprosy, and not in the gross physical sense. I stopped over at Wikipedia to familiarize myself with it further, and it's a pretty unsightly disease. Basically, you loose feelings in your nerves and you start beating the shit out of yourself by walking into things, stepping on things, burning yourself, and destroying that gutsack that people call a body. All this to say, the person is destroying himself slowly without realizing it, due to his inability to feel.

Now, if I have to point out where this is going maybe you should stop reading right here because it will most likely go over you're head. Okay I'll say it anyway. Still Reading?

Not to repeat myself, or go on some peace and love tangent, or even to boldy state the obvious, but the condition of mankind as a whole has gotten pretty bad, wouldn't you agree? What causes that. Over time, we gradually become looser in our ethics. Morals begin to slide down a slippery slope. This happens on an individual level (which is almost a whole other topic...) but for now I am speaking as it regards to all of the human race as a whole. We are loosing our ability to feel in a sense. I guess that's what I'm stabbing at. For whatever reason (you ever notice how so many things in life remain unexplained?) we are beating ourselves up. We're insensative to the dangers that different things in this fleating existnece possesses. This damn machine doesn't have spell check, so for you grammar/spelling freaks out there, save it.

In short, there is nothing I can say that hasn't been said. I have no revolutionary thoughts or wisdom on how to practically improve our condition. No mix of words or ideas can completely remove the stain we have tainted ourselves with. I am only an observer, and as an observer I make observations. This is what I have seen. What you do with all this is up to you.Thanks to Janae for the idea. If anyone has anything they want to see put in writing let me know. I got nothing to do.