Preppy is the New Hipster

Im scared about the war, for the first time ever I think. I am scared that Iran and Iraq are going to unite and kick our cowboy boots out of the hemisphere. Im scared for Christian in Turkey and Christians in China, Jews in Palestine and commuters on the tube. Im scared because I don’t understand how beliefs translated to killing each other, or how beliefs and stories make us any different fundamentally. I think we can help, but I am scared because they don’t want it. I am mostly scared that this major issue has no effect on my compartmentalized little world, except the frequency with which I check the headlines in my comfortable and sterile desk. It seems so trivial, so dumb, paying death taxes.