The all consuming emotions that erode our logic and understanding now threaten our habits. The habits that we've had since our development have become as useless as the dust in the air and as damaging as pollution to our home. Without the constant use of our habits, actions and tendencies who do we become? A fly on the wall of our own lives? Or maybe the we ourselves become as useless as the dust that flows carelessly along in the air. Our common sense that is supposed to be just that, common, has left us in a world where only the gifted can use such intelligence to make better of themselves. Our emotions drive our actions and in consequence does not allow us to develop our common sense. This leaves us in a world where our survival instincts become unimportant because we, as consumers, constantly rely on the blood, sweat and tears of the workers that make our food, clothes and books. Have we become so selfish as to let others face the consequences of our actions? We pollute the earth and still expect farmers to ensure that we eat well each day; we pollute the air and still expect doctors to come up with a cure for lung cancer. We have become a demanding society, a society that demands that we get what we think we want or what we think we need and yet we wait as others take the burden of its failure. Someone begs for food and we feel sadness tug on our hearts and we still stand back as another helps and then take credit for the act of kindness because of a passing glance. We have become a society that will lie, cheat, steal, manipulate, think only of ones self, let emotions rule us and have let the most important survival instinct of common sense to die away into the shadows. I realize that I am one of these people that cannot be set apart from the rest of the population, but does anyone else notice what's going on?