Okay, so not to alarm anyone, but this post is going to be a little bit more ... disturbing than my other posts, because the topic we're discussing is disturbing in its own rights, believe me when I say this. 

If you live in the U.S, you might remember a certain film that came out in 2013, and its third installment is in theatres for this 4th of July weekend ... That's right, for those of you who remember and are planning on going to go see it, you know it as The Purge. For those who haven't heard of it for whatever reason, this film has an easy "now you know" description to tell you what it's about:  

For one night a year, all crime is legal. 

Imagine, all crime being legal. What would be accomplished from something so insane? Unemployment rates dropping to 1%, crime at an all time low, and the economy is going strong. From 7 p.m March 21 to 7 a.m March 22 does the Purge last, and the thing about the Purge? It's thought to nr an act of catharsis for the populace, bur really it's a method of artifical population control, superficially solving the country's societal problems by killing off the "useless", "pests"of society; the mentally ill, disabled, elderly, the uneducated, the unemployed, the poor and homeless, all to be killed the 12 hours of the Purge. What a civic tradition ... 

In all honesty, it doesn't seem like a concept that could become a reality, but the thought our world is as messed up as what this is, that's frightening. People's lives are messed up all the time, and instead of doing something about it, we watch, and that seems like the only thing we do when a person's life gets messed up. How much more can life throw at us before the thought of killing, of allowing such horrendous nightmares be reality, seem like a good thing?