Nowadays on social media, you are prone to see things that are truly disgusting or have you saying “Why Why would this happen” or “How could someone do that”. Instagram and even Tik Tok tries to give you a warning that what you’re about to see may make you very upset. 

When we watch that type of stuff we are shocked but at the same time, we aren’t. Unfortunately, humanity made us think like that and made us more used to these disgusting things. Like I have seen one of my favourite rappers sitting in his car dead while people recorded him. I saw another singer sitting dead after an overdose. I saw a white man put his knee on a black man’s neck for 9 minutes while the other guy yelled that he cannot breathe. I saw a black man going for a jog and two white men ran up him and killed him. I saw crazy white people storming capital hill. I saw the people getting killed during protests. I’m seeing Palestine and Israel bumping heads. I saw a white police officer mistake a gun for a taser and shoot a man dead. All of it was on social media and I indeed saw it all. 

I was disgusted. I was grossed out. I was confused. 

Now, you’re probably reading this and you’re wondering where I am going with this and I promise I’m getting there. So the other day I was scrolling through Instagram and I started watching this video. It was a video recording from 2001. It was some teen who brought their camera to school to record their friends and make a funny video. I loved seeing those videos everyone just looked so happy. However, not even 20 seconds into the video and the whole vibe of the video changed. All of a sudden everyone was shocked and sad. Now I wasn’t really paying attention so when the energy changed I was very confused. 

So I restarted the video and this time I watched it fully to see what was going on. I made it to that 20-second mark and all of them were watching tv in their class it was on the news. Once again I was still confused. So I looked around and I saw the date 09/11/2001. Then I realized. They were watching the twin towers I’m guessing one of the buildings was still up and the plane hit the first one. Everyone looked shocked. Scared. The face of why the F!ck did this happen. 

I then got sad and went to the comments. Everyone was reacting the same I was then. Then one comment hit me hard in a way or just me think that is very true. I can’t fully remember what they said but this what I kinda remember  “The raw emotion they are showing is something you won’t see much today, nowadays we just see it and think Again?”. In some way, I guess they’re right. All these horrible attacks, shootings, racist people being well racist. We all know it’s horrible and that it should not be happening but we are not shocked we are not surprised. That comment just made me think of how our mindsets are. 

So many things have happened in our life that being shocked or surprised is no longer a reaction because it happens so much and it seems the government is not doing anything or not enough.

My mindset on all this is I know that humanity will only get worse. The racist is having children and turning them into racists. The angry is having kids and making their kinds angry. The stupid disrespectful are having kids and making their kids stupid and disrespectful. My mindset is it won’t be global warming killing us or Aliens deciding to do a killing spree. It’s going to be humanity killing itself.

Now a lot of people can disagree or try to prove me wrong and hey I could be wrong. 

Social media has taught me that one day even my country will go against itself. Canadians protecting Canadians from Canadians cause that just what happened on January 6, 2021. Americans protecting Americans from Americans.