I haven't written here in a while. Yes, I have excuses for it. But no point giving it out here, they're excuses nonetheless. This
blog does come to mind almost every other afternoon while I am at work. I even
open up the 'new post' page a few times but something else comes up or I drift
away to do something else. (ADHD much?)
Just goes to show how much importance we seem to give for our New Year’s
resolutions.
Anyhoo..
Anyhoo..
Um. Let's see what we shall talk about today. I don't know
really. All I thought about coming here today was, damn I really should be adding a post in there soon. I do intend to write something worth the while in here, but of late I don't find
many things happening that can be really seen as positive in any way. There is
this GoodNews site that I visit often, but even in there updates come too
infrequently of late. I don't know if it's cuz they are downsizing in there, or whether it is just that even they are not finding enough good news
floating around anywhere in the planet anymore. I do hope it's not the latter. And if
it is the first, that would still count as not a GoodNews. (Irony?)
Every time I open the newspapers (or mostly any news site). The page is
always filled with terror attacks/scares, shootings, killers on the loose, massacres, rapes,
financial meltdowns, quakes, pollution, draught. Damn. No wonder people are so
pissed off these days. Anger and chaos is what the newspapers are filled with.
At my work, whenever I open the
Google News page, I am taken to the US Edition of the headlines. Couple of
weeks back there was this shooting of a couple of early morning breakfast TV show hosts in
Virginia, US. And you know what's more, as sad and devastating as the news of
the killing was, the very next headline on that same page was about some
celebrity being bitchy about some other female celebrity's comment about her. I
don't know why, though they are both very different news sites and completely
different topics, seeing them together like that made me feel like this was
somehow trivializing the whole incident. Let the horror sink in just a little bit before you take our attention away to celebrity gossip.
I don't suppose that makes any sense to you. Let me
elaborate.
These past couple of years there has been a big outburst of
violence all over the globe, every single country has their own raising stats
in the 'death by violent-crimes' category. That is the only are for any increase that I
see for any country now. But I don't see people
getting nabbed for their crimes at the same rate as the crimes are being
committed. There are so many killings, and assaults, and violence in so many
places.
Are we in some way collectively getting overly violent as a specie? Or has something really gone wrong along the way and we're all now destined to end up on the path of The Purge. And I am still not very sure how that thing works!
Are we in some way collectively getting overly violent as a specie? Or has something really gone wrong along the way and we're all now destined to end up on the path of The Purge. And I am still not very sure how that thing works!
This bloody mess doesn't make any sense. When did such
things get so common? Aren't things like such extreme violence and crazed
psychotic episodes happen a few times a decade? Isn't this happening way too
often now? Or is it just me. Am I only seeing this?
Apparently not... Watch this!
