Where have all the monsters gone?

The power of pressure.
It makes you doubt your sensibilities when someone with more power opposes your view.
It makes you stay up late without any problems the night before an exam.
It makes teenage US marines randomly slaughter Iraqi civilians, including small children.
It drives eminent scientists like Hwang Woo Suk to fabricate erroneous results.
It gets young kids into drugs.
It forces a mother to jump in the river with her 10 year old son.
It’s what makes a good espresso brew.
It gets people to smuggle human organs and bones for money.
It gets nations to listen to President Bush.
It cultivates bad sexual habits and culture.
It drives athletes in pursuit of the summit to steroid abuse.
It forces families on the southern West Virginian Mountains to sell their land to billion dollar mining companies.
It makes us sell our souls to the media.
It makes the Indian government pass ridiculous bills such as increased reservations in academic institutions.
It makes guys in the gym pick up more weights than they can handle.
It gives bipolar disorder and manic depression to 6 year olds.
It makes researchers masturbate with statistics on the same data set to build a publishing record.
It’s what makes people click on pro anorexic web sites.
It makes people migrate from the villages to the big cities without security of any sorts.
It makes people retire in the country side to escape the cities.
It’s what helps keep WTO in check when hoards of individually helpless people join forces.
It’s what cooks your dinner in less than half the normal time.
It’s what puts the thoughts in my head under a spotlight. It’s what scares the monsters away. And that’s what keeps me from blogging every night. It’s what takes a bit of my privacy away. But, it also helps me shift out of my comfort zones and so hopefully the monsters will return and get used to the stage.