America is a hot plate, and today it's burning not only the table it sits on, but the house around it.
We live in an era of history where people are perhaps as openly opinionated as they have ever been. Controversy has become the fuel of our nation, and we are embedding ourselves in its scalding depths as a perversion of pleasure.
Controversy, on the other hand, is the stuff of legacies, of stories and of empires. Controversy sits at the heart of humanity and it is only on controversy's back that nations are born and raised up.
The problem lies in the point that those in the arena, throwing out their whatnots and what have you's, leave their words behind them as nothing more than empty testaments.
You see, a fire with nothing to burn will die out. But first, that fire will burn up anything and everything that it can leap to and consume. When we light a fire beneath the seat of America and let it leap up, dash wildly about and flail in anger, but then abandon the burning seat, America will have nothing to sit itself on. America itself will fall to the ashes.
We are destroying our nation one piece at a time in this firestorm of controversy that we have allowed to devour our lives. While it is good to argue, debate and hash things out, a conclusion must be reached. We have to go to the polls and deliver our votes. We have to go to the streets and preach the gospel. We have to sit on the steps of our capitol buildings and have our voices heard by those suits we put there for ourselves. We cannot mosey about and expect something to happen because we like a post on Facebook or retweet a cleverly worded anecdote.
Words are powerful. Writing is powerful. Social media and the Internet are powerful, but action must be taken to harness that power. Millennials hold the future of the world in our hands, and a world living in the light of our computer screens will be bleak and lifeless.
Go out. Be impactful.
