Let's Talk About Prey

The nature documentaries we watch to pass the time away define prey as an animal seized by another for food. For the average hunter, prey is just about anything that can be shot with a weapon.

Poor little animal, frolicking in the woods, taking in the day, grazing and looking for a mate, then Blam, a shot rings out and our furry friend, who was once minding his own business, is growing hot, soaking in his own blood, trying to figure out just what has happened to him, as he slowly fades out of existence, hoots and hollers can be heard celebrating the kill. Not a pretty sight.

What about the social interactive meaning; "

To make someone a victim, as by cheating or to exert a harmful influence." This applies to every day society, people preying on one another as a personality trait.

There is the grocery store bully, pushing and ignoring you all at the same time, the mall security guard bully who wouldn't know how to secure a belt, if it weren't for a little invention called Velcro, and we all know the parking lot bully, usually the woman driving an enormous oil sucking SUV who would plow her own mother over just so she didn't have to walk an extra three feet before reaching the market entrance.

Bullies at school that steal from or embarrass other children for their own personal gain are predators; they prey on the children lost in the crowd. Drug dealers push nasty habits, enabling the unsuspecting science student, a path to destruction with many fatal concurring effects.

The entertainment ticket companies who charge you triple for lousy seats, or the credit card companies fine print, guaranteed to lower your credit rating just to make a buck.

Telemarketers and junk mail marketers, construction professionals, all scamming senior citizens of their life savings, and it don't stop there.

The fast food industries supply the public with second rate just passing standards meals that are cheaper to feed our families than baking at home, and are killing off society through obesity, not only ourselves but our children as well.

Cellular phone companies, sucking us into extended contracts and overages that can add up to hundreds of dollars, all to keep in communication with people, while we gas up our cars and shop for merchandise made in foreign lands.

Sexual predators, murders, and domestic violence, brutalizing innocence into unrecognizable masses of existence, law enforcement, politicians, and social workers pushing the problem through the cracks of the system can never solve the problem.

Where does it all stop, can it stop, these are examples on the lowest of levels. The realization of people hunting people is a more frightening thought than a leisurely stroll in the woods.