I once heard a song called "This song is brought to you by a Falling bomb"...

This song takes a very distinct and extremely interesting point of view.
In this song the analogy of war-sounds, fears and reactions are explored from a civilians perspective.
The civilians uncontrolable emotions are equated to the free falling of a falling bomb.

So Whats so interisting about this?
To me the fascination follows the applicability of this analogy to "modern" teens
(born between the mid 80's and mid 90's) and their psyche. Their intelectual capacity by far supercedes
all their other capabilities.

Even though they are breaking athletic records, IQ records, age records for Doctorates,
performing extremly well in every cultural, Sporting or academic activity and fathoming technology as
fast as it becomes available; there is still one crucial part of life they cannot partake in successfully.

This activity is experiencing raw emotion AND then coping with it.
most of these teens it seems fall into one of two mutually exclusive and mutually exhaustive categories.
Emotionally apathetic and Emotionally vulnerable.

The first grouping tend to have difficulty in experiencing emotion and because of this lack of reference have
difficulty in recognising emotion as emotion when they actually do experience it.For them the world seems to be very
understandable and simplistic even logical. This arises to confusion as to what all the fuss and whoo-hah is all about. For them
earth tends to be either a dull place or a place in which the pace of improvement seems too slow (since no new technology
or discoveries "impress" them but rather seem logical and simple).This leads to frustration when there aren't enough distractons
around to keep them busy.

The second group tend to over-experience each emotion. For them everything that happens is near overwhelming.
This happens because they tend to experience very rich emotion, and since they are the first group to ever
experience such levels of emotional awareness, they have no indoctrinated frame of reference. I the general case
this leads to confusion, frustration and ultimately a form of depression.

So the next question seems to be how this links with the song?

The answer is supposed to be intuitive and therefore inherently difficult to explain. Here is my first and only attempt...

In the song it is said that as the bomb falls, the ground is getting closer and the sky is falling.
This statement brings confusion as to the positional relevance of the bomb (Since up and down are now seen as exactly the same
thing, yet remain physical polar opposites). The same applies to the two groups of teens; even though they experiece (or don't eperience emotion)
both groups have the same lack of coping mechanisms to orientate themselves emotionally. The lesson to learn from this is that the
way in which you think does not matter, it's how you deal with what you perceive the world to be that makes you happy.(I seethis as one of
three pillars of happyness, I might discuss the other 2 at a later stage)

It seems as though the more advanced and complex humans become, the more the relevance of the primordial becomes aparrent
and the more of a risk we become to ourselves. These teens, even though they have this amasing capability to adapt to change
and this great capacity for learning, they still cant control one of the most fundamental of human characteristics - emotion.

The Irony should be apparent. We as humans are at the top of the food chain and advancing all fields of technology and science.
How sad that we still don't know much about our own undelying operating system.

We have built so many things on that foundation we know nothing about controlling. Maybe thats where the pyramid builders went...maybe thats where we're going...

The day in which humanity falls will be a shameful one if mankinds incontrollable fall from grace would be , ultimately,
at the hand of the mere perception of something as intangible as emotion...

My name is Manus, and this is my muse...