"Zero-Sum" inspiration

Maybe it’s the time we live in.
Maybe I'm the only one who sees it, who feels it, wears the pain daily, struggles to open my heart to it: the human struggle, the human failures destined to be repeated if it’s not for those who are screaming out for the world to "WAKE UP!!!!" and see the madness, the destruction of ourselves, our way of life…what our culture means to long-term survival. They are not conducive. One will conquer the other, and *“may god have mercy on our dirty little hearts.”

*From NIN "Zero-Sum"