A Mean World

I'm perplexed at the lengths that human beings go through to degrade, demean and oppress one another when life would be so much easier if people would love one another.  Love is so much sweeter and flexible than hate.  Yet we choose hate time and time again to lead us to the depths of despair that we know as life.  I look at postings on facebook and twitter. People post words all of the time, but do the really understand the magnitude of what they are saying?  It seems that in modern day time, we are a bunch of cowards parading our bravado in empty words to strangers on the net that can only put a name to an avatar or picture (neither of which may be true). We are going backwards. People began communication by writing by chiseling symbols on cave walls.  We chisel symbols on our laptop screens, but our ability to communicate is decreasing.
How do we teach our children to live in a world where everything is disengenuous and virual rather than genuine and concrete,
And how do people miss the lessons that the past have so diligently and blatantly taught us.
I know I'm talking in general here but these are just morning thoughts after a day of hard work and an evening of mild to moderate partying and fire works, on a fourth of July evening.
I love life and everyone in it.  People who work hard to make others feel "less than",  do it because they feel "less than".  It's hard to see with all of the makeup and fanfare and media and money.  But it is there... up close and personal. if they would only look into the camera lenses and recognize who is staring back at them...Maybe, they would begin to understand the magnitude of the despair that they are working so hard to spread, and then start on the road to becoming happier people.