There is a perversion in our society, a moral decay that is eroding the very fabric of humanity. It is prevalent in our youth and the culture they were born into, where playing a character is becoming an all-consuming obsession where we lose all sight of ourselves.

The desensitization of our society is reaching epic proportions, when we care less about the person and more about the photo. It is reminiscent of Lord of the Flies, when the beast in us takes over, and the rest of us watch. Some may laugh out of nervousness or fear, not wanting the beast to turn on them. Others may join in and add to the bedlam.

When your avatar becomes more real to you than the real world, we usher in a host of sadistic issues that compound on themselves until there is no moral compass. Right now, we are perilously close to the edge. After that, there is no turning back.

How do you look yourself in the mirror after you have crossed that line?

Thankfully there is a saving grace for us all, but first we must choose to swim against the current. In the ever changing addictive world of social media, any and every form of degradation and perversion exists and it is there for the taking.

How do you raise young men to be men of character, of honor and chivalry, when they can enter into the video world and act out their wildest fantasies?

How do you raise young men to respect women if their minds are programmed to treat them as objects to do with them whatever they will?

Why then are you surprised to hear of sex trafficking, of slavery today even in the USA? How do we treat people like a commodity to be bought and sold and paid for for pleasure?

Surely this is some archaic, medieval practice, some barbaric form of society that was banished long ago…

When you can’t separate fantasy from reality we have entered the no go zone, and that is a vast expanse of nothingness that leaves you empty and hollow and searching for the next big fix.

Do yourself a favor. Do us all a favor. Look up from your keyboard. Look out and into the eyes of the person across from you. And see them. See her. She’s Somebody’s Daughter. She could be your sister, your mother, your friend…your daughter.

Next time you stare at that open door…you know the one. Close it.