The Era of Conspiracy

With every year that passes now, it seems we become more cynical to the events and actions that affect us. Rarely now do we look at the facts and believe them for what they are and show. Rather shine the spotlight on it, interrogate and torture them until we get an alternative perspective. Despite the fact that if you took the common sense route to which were more believable you’d find the answer lying with the former, so why? Why are exams getting easier? Why was there no terror plot to foil? Why was Sept 11^th the work of American officials? Why deviate from the reality in these situations? This is the same generation that puts down its children as mollycoddled, gadget overloaded time bombs. Perhaps our cynics and conspiracists need to wake up and smell the coffee to the fact that they are both the cause and solution. This cynicism breeds itself as a disregard to authority figures, so why wonder when new goals are how quickly one can acquire an ASBO. The flaw for our next generation is us, not them…