Sunday, April 22, 2007

Good question- why are all of these desperately unhappy people lashing out in violent ways? Didn't they used to just jump off of bridges? Or walk into the wilderness and not come back? Or drink themselves to death? Or quietly live lives of anguish- punishing their unfortunate families for the pain?

Yeah. Weren't those the good old days.

Still. Seems like a tidal change. Suddenly they lash out. Were they there all along, and something societal kept them under wraps? Or did they all view Taxi Driver and become liberated? Was it in the music? The water? The television? The internet?

Or is it that we are getting worse and worse at dealing with them in a constructive way and defusing the bomb, so to speak? Should we blame ourselves? Should we blame them? Should we blame God? Hello God, what the hell, dude?

There's your Sunday morning conundrum. Brought to you by events beyond my control.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

In my opinion, God is not just the good, but the bad, and everything in between. God is the disturbed killer, the bullets and the dead people. God is the mourning parents and friends as well and the media, descending for the current entertainment fix.

And all events are beyond your control, but that's jut my opinion.

(S)wine said...

i blame porn.
no, no, i take that back.
i, too, cannot understand the
desire to take other out.
i do understand raging at
the mommies and the daddies
who provide the Beamers for these kids,
but as much as I, too, loathe them,
i'd neve take them out.
we need the cockroaches on this planet.
and so they must exist.

they're starting to perform
autopsies on these kinds of bastards
to see if there are anomalies
in their brains.

you think?

slyboots2 said...

I sincerely cannot assign blame. Even the sick little fucks who pull the trigger were pushed there- by internal or external demons- I don't know. No excuses. They are responsible. But I'm sad for them too. Or more accurately, sad for their families. Not necessarily for them- at least their trials are over. They inflicted trials on others. So maybe they are justice. Or maybe not. I don't know.

Just need coffee. And to ignore the news for a while. Tox and detox.