The Random Ramblings of Lauren

We live in a society of prejudice. The world has become a place where judgement, disapproval, hate and discrimination choke the air like smog. It fills our lungs and seeps into our skin, infecting our minds and blinding us to the consequences of our actions. We are surrounded by prejudice, and many of us are too ignorant to notice it.  The problem is that ignorance, f ear, anger and self-righteousness fester and grow into attitudes of prejudice. Even worse, these attitudes can spread like wildfire amongst certain individuals that are too afraid to have their own opinion, for fear of it being considered wrong. People become sheep, following blindly into a lifestyle that refuses to accept anything that they cannot understand. And the more people that follow, the more people follow them, and so on. It doesn't matter if it's something trivial, such as differences in taste or style, or something more fundamental like a differing religion, race or sexuality. If something is d...