People die, life goes on and I refuse to shut my mouth
Sometimes, people just annoy the hell out of me. Sometimes, they’re good people who mean well, which makes me feel bad for being annoyed. Guilty that someone who is trying to do something good is making me so damn annoyed. But there’s the annoyance all the same, and here I am to talk about it.
On April 30th, a good many bloggers are opting to take the day off as a “moment of silence” for the Virginia Tech students who were killed yesterday. Ok, deep breath, self. Get ready to be reviled.
What a bunch of shit. People are dying every day. From starvation. From fire. From bad Fugu. From a random brain aneurysm. It just happens. But why is it that our country fixates on the deaths of certain people, while not really seeming to give a shit about all of the others?
I’m sorry. Call me an insensitive asshole if you like. You wouldn’t be the first. But I’m irritated by this hollow gesture that seems to me to be just another bandwagon for bloggers to jump on. Show everyone how sensitive and caring you are. Let them see how affected you are by this event. Fuck all that. You want to show us how you feel? Then write about it.
I am not making light of the recent tragedy in VA. I sympathize with the families and friends of the dead. I wish I could do something to ease their pain and make things better. But I can’t. The media could. They could stop the barrage of footage on the incident and return to the respectable journalists they are supposed to be, instead of the blood-thirsty sharks they have become. But that won’t happen. They give us what we want. And what we want is tragedy, blood and death.
When young people die, it’s always a tragedy. Of course it is. But is the massacre yesterday worse than the thousands upon thousands of dead caused by recent Tsunamis? Or those who died as a result of Hurricane Katrina? Or the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and thousands of U.S. soldiers who have died in the last four years? Where are their days of silence? Why not do it every day? All the blogs can give a different group of people a moment of silence every single day. Then we can get off our asses, shut the internet down and go play outside.
