Were We Here Too Long?

Maybe it was because the ship had been away for so long. Maybe it was because they were all alone on Earth. For whatever reason people seemed to be saying in mass that life was no longer worth living. Every day there was another shooting in a mall or another child killing its family. Twenty-four seven media was on autopilot now, and heading in the direction of nuclear conflagration. It was as if the world could be ended without anyone actually having to push a button or to be held accountable for it. Hal was running things now. A psychotic computer program out to end life on Earth. The people followed blindly, as society crumbled, and almost seemed content to let the plan succeed. The new politically correct society didn't turn them on. There was now so much media out there that it was easy to insert bits and pieces of Armageddon targeting the mind. The bird Venusians could sit back now and watch as their committees told us how to live, making rules only they could follow or that suited only them. Time Magazine first asked the question: Is God Dead? The new government (Not the New New one of Obama, but the NEW one of the last thirty years or so.) had no need of God. They planned to become God. They were the new God in town.