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Loughner's Incident
15 years ago
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So... I'm going to post a little blurb here about the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
I've been soaking up the news about this today, and to sum it up, with much personal disgust, I think it was kind of inevitable. I mean, don't get me wrong, Jared Lee Loughner is obviously a complete lunatic, grasping out for any philosophy that could possibly justify his twisted outlook, even if, or seemingly ESPECIALLY if, those philosophies are EXTREMELY contradictory! For instance: Ayn Rand AND Karl Marx? One thing that disturbs me the most is that ... the guy's an Atheist. I've never heard of an Atheist ever doing something so incredibly destructive and illogical. That said, I think the guy was just plain crazy, and all of his features, quirks, and interests might as well have been drawn from a hat.
The real thing that worries me... is that he's more of a proverbial canary in our coal mine, dropping dead before our eyes. Something has gone terribly, tragically WRONG, and I've got the worst sinking feeling that it's only going to get worse. Our political system has been getting more and more ineffectual; people have been getting angrier and angrier; the ones in charge are listening less and less; the ones stuck at the bottom are getting more and more desperate. It looks like a runaway freight train rumbling straight toward us and we're too busy arguing amongst ourselves to get off the goddamn tracks! If we miraculously got ourselves better politicians--ones that actually LISTENED and could show us HOW they're listening and WHAT they're listening to do with some level of effectiveness, then Maybe we might be able to get through this okay... but I just don't think that's gonna happen.
I think they're just gonna clap their hands over their eyes, ears, and mouthes all the harder, dawn a new age of even MORE extreme paranoia, and in the process, screw us all...
I've been soaking up the news about this today, and to sum it up, with much personal disgust, I think it was kind of inevitable. I mean, don't get me wrong, Jared Lee Loughner is obviously a complete lunatic, grasping out for any philosophy that could possibly justify his twisted outlook, even if, or seemingly ESPECIALLY if, those philosophies are EXTREMELY contradictory! For instance: Ayn Rand AND Karl Marx? One thing that disturbs me the most is that ... the guy's an Atheist. I've never heard of an Atheist ever doing something so incredibly destructive and illogical. That said, I think the guy was just plain crazy, and all of his features, quirks, and interests might as well have been drawn from a hat.
The real thing that worries me... is that he's more of a proverbial canary in our coal mine, dropping dead before our eyes. Something has gone terribly, tragically WRONG, and I've got the worst sinking feeling that it's only going to get worse. Our political system has been getting more and more ineffectual; people have been getting angrier and angrier; the ones in charge are listening less and less; the ones stuck at the bottom are getting more and more desperate. It looks like a runaway freight train rumbling straight toward us and we're too busy arguing amongst ourselves to get off the goddamn tracks! If we miraculously got ourselves better politicians--ones that actually LISTENED and could show us HOW they're listening and WHAT they're listening to do with some level of effectiveness, then Maybe we might be able to get through this okay... but I just don't think that's gonna happen.
I think they're just gonna clap their hands over their eyes, ears, and mouthes all the harder, dawn a new age of even MORE extreme paranoia, and in the process, screw us all...
