Why Are We Killing Strangers?

It is about time we all actually “woke” up.

Kim Petersen
Living Out Loud
Published in
6 min readApr 10, 2021

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Photo by Aditya Vyas on Unsplash

A prehistoric monster has awakened. He looks like a cross between a T-rex and a sea snake. No one knows his true origins but authorities believe that he emerges from the sea at specific geographical points across the earth when a humanitarian crisis is at its peak. The beast isn’t here to bring good fortune. Rather, he thrives on the escalating obnoxious traits of human beings. Things like hate-mob mentality, cyber-bullying, and outrage culture. He kills without discrimination, nonetheless. Collecting kind, compassionate souls along with the crud. Like many humans, the beast kills strangers.

“We’re killin’ strangers so we don’t kill the ones that we love.”

Marilyn Manson

I don’t know when it happened. Maybe I was living under a rock when the world finally succumbed to the beast. When decent human characteristics were brewed hard enough to rouse a collective mindset favoring the obscene. When social ostracization morphed into cancel-culture, public shaming, cyber-bullying, and the violation of the exchange of free speech, thoughts, and ideas.

It’s the prehistoric beast arising in humanity.

Why are We Killing Strangers?

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Kim Petersen
Living Out Loud

Award-winning & Bestselling Author | HH Prac. (Hol.Meta.Heal) | Writing About Soul. Love. Humor. Spirituality. Life. Relationships | https://kimpetersen.com.au/