Pollution

I went to the movies this weekend and, as it is with all movies, there were previews. I like to watch the previews because they're interesting and show the new movies coming out soon. I was watching the previews, and one of them started that shocked me. All the preview was was a bunch of killing, drugs, drinking, and girls. The preview was for a video game centered around these things. The preview had no plot or intriguing scene, just a bunch of gunfire, scantily dressed girls, and people either drinking or doing drugs. Seeing this opened my eyes to how desensitized our world has become. Not that long ago, those things were seen as crazy and not something you would buy in the form of a video game to play. Killing has become so normal. The world has so many killing video games nowadays that we've become desensitized to the sacredness of life. Drugs and alcohol have become so normal that we don't even think of them as extremely bad anymore. Provocative ideas have become so normal that porn is now everywhere, not just on dirty sites online. Our world pushes these things on us instead of trying to protect us from them. The preview I saw made all these things seem glamourous. I wish the video game makers would talk to a soldier who has killed people and see how much pain that soldier has to deal with over taking someone's life. I wish the video game makers would talk to someone who's entire life has been ruined by drugs. I wish the video game makers would talk to a high school girl who got pregnant and now has to work to pay for food for her and her child instead of going to college. Video game makers know that they can make money off selling these games, and it's not all their fault. Society as a whole demands such games to be entertained. Entertainment, and life in general, are dependent on what society needs, and in this day and age, all our society wants is to have a good time. If the world stepped back and saw the pollution that is infiltrating the minds of people today, people would realize how dreadfully downhill our world has gone and see why so many people, especially teens and children, are turning out the way they are.