Flashpoint Hope

How does one define hope? Fundamentally, human beings have a need of purpose. Hope is the check drawn against the future. The belief that someday, somewhere things will get better. It's really no wonder then that in our modern society that so many people are unable to see hope.

Dead end jobs, dead end relationships, dead end lives forming an unpassable barrier to beneficial change. Governments losing sight of the ideals of their very founding to control and persuade their populaces that they know best and should be part of every aspect of every individual's lives, locking them into a culture of enforced need and collectivism, while monopolizing or defeating any technology or system that threatens to erode this control. Protecting by invading all facets of the individual. The average citizen comes under surveillance over 100 times a day and while great pains have been taken to publicize the controls of medical data via the HIPPA act, no regulations currently oversee the flow of information such as surveillance videos.

Paranoia is the new norm and distrust of government and its entities is at an all time high, for good reason. Stories continue to surface of government misuse of newfound law enforcement powers against private citizens. National governments have become often tools to big business, enforcing the rule of the wealthy and monolithic corporations into the foreseeable future.

The idea of hope is one difficult to find in most modern environments even for the optimistic. Many of the younger adult crowd have become increasingly jaded to the possiblity that there is even a potential solution to their plight.