This is what we imagine
when we hear the fateful letters WMD...
...images appear of
missiles built in deathly secret, fired from afar, causing carnage to
countless thousands of unknowing victims at the target destination.
There are countries around the world suspected, rightly or wrongly,
of formulating evil Weapons of Mass Destruction in dark, deeply scientific laboratories
with intentions of power and destruction of catastrophic scale...and
we, the righteous innocent ones watch in fear and angst, powerless to
stop the weak becoming more powerful than we, ironically forgetting
of course that we probably invented the technology and sold it out in
the first place.
Yet there is a WMD, more
powerful than any crazed egotistical dictator can create. We freely
invite it into our homes every day, openly letting its force break us
apart a piece at a time, tearing out the morals and values of society
and each day taking us to a level more base than the last. We pay for
the privilege of it's mesmerising power, allow it to stop us
communicating with each other, place our young in front of it so we
do not need to attend to them using the excuse we no time for them.
We believe it without question, allow it's influence to eat into us,
change us, and as a group, destroy us.
It is of course...the
television.......there's a sculpture in the making I feel....
This really took me by surprise. This article is very well written and it's really witty as well. You really did a great job on this one.
ReplyDelete