April 19, 2013
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Blog Entry
People are stupid.
Everything is blown out of proportion because of Facebook and Twitter and YouTube. It's like that stupid Gossip game we played when we were kids. You tell the person next to you a story and by the time it gets handed to individual after individual it's completely warped. "I ate a bag of Doritos " becomes "I hate those fags and dumb bitch hoes."
Is this why a report of shots fired on a college campus turns into "Another tragedy! School Shooting. Can't believe what's happening to our country!" blah blah blah. #prayforBoston #prayforTexas #prayforMIT. How are any of these thing related! They have nothing to do with each other. They are not comparable or in any way able to be lumped together.
I'm sorry. I realize it's really sad. A campus officer died. I know his family is hurting.
This is not special, national, newsworthy, trending topic, the world is ending stuff. Are people really so clueless as to think this stuff doesn't happen every single day.
I remember hearing gunshots outside my dorm window one horrible night at UNT. The campus police shot a belligerent drunk guy right outside my window. Most of the campus didn't even know about it the next day. Facebook was in it's primary years. Sharing was non-existent. Twitter was nothing. It was what it was. It wasn't blown up into viral videos and cynical tweets. "What's the world coming to? People can't even be reasonable when they are drunk! #nakedgunUNT."
I know I'm not really getting my point across here. The media encourages this crap. Tweet us your eye witness accounts. We will play it constantly and treat like it's God given truth shining out of your ass. Without context. Without facts. And we will tell people to comment and share their uneducated thoughts on something they know nothing about.
"Bombs are reported to have been lined up and down both sides of the street at the Boston Marathon, but the police were able to disarm them in time."
or
"These were controlled explosions done by the federal government."
Just shut up, people. Just shut up.
Leah K.
Comments (5)
I completely agree. A few noteworthy tragedies are blown entirely out of proportion, and the rest are ignored. We are more emotionally connected to events occurring thousands of miles away than what happens outside our own window.
Honestly working the two days of overtime I've hardly heard about Boston other than facebook "pray for them" stuff. Which I mostly hide. (because I'm evil like that) Yesterday Walter's mom had CNN news on ALL DAY when we were over. That is all they covered. Although she did tell me about the Texas thing which I found more fascinating because it effected a larger area. I also had had no information about it.
I've become "desensitized" is what my grandmother says. Well, she didn't even have TV growing up so the amount of information I've already had in my life, yeah it makes sense.
Wasn't the campus officer shot by one of the suspects from the Boston Bombing? I don't know, that's the impression I got. Also, I can't stand when people who have nothing to do with the situation act like experts. Just because they have read all of the news stories. Oh and the conspiracy theories. Why can't we just accept what has happened and move on? The truth is, even if the "Illuminati" has done all of this craziness, uncovering the truth isn't going to set us free or change anything.
It's a good thing most textbooks are going digital.
I would hate to carry around a history book with all the stuff going on now adays.
Used to, we had a history book about wars and presidents. Now they will include every move made by man.
@HangingbyAMoment22 - apparently, so. none of that information was known last night when I wrote this. I'm really glad I'm not in Boston today. It looks like a war zone.
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