Here's a prime example of what I talked about few months back in Too Much Too Soon. Chris Dodd is on the campaign trail instead of doing his job as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, where there just happens to be a lot of work to do to solve this whole Subprime Mortgage Crisis.
But we can't blame Dodd or the other lawmakers on the trail, right? Because it's just a bad system that has them campaigning earlier each cycle, taking them away from their real jobs and neglecting the running of the country. Somebody should pass a law against it. Hmmm, maybe they would if they weren't out there wooing Iowa. Wait a minute---maybe we CAN blame them. A little bit.
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Publicity for Murderers
In a shopping mall in Omaha last week, a boy with an AK47 killed eight people in under 4 minutes before turning the gun on himself.
“Now I will be famous,” the boy wrote in his suicide note. Last year, the Virginia Tech killer had mailed photographs of himself to NBC. A relative of one of the children murdered at Columbine High School said that way too much attention is given to those who kill as opposed to those who have died. One might think these kids wanted to be remembered for something…perhaps attempting to “blast” their way into the celebrity culture in which this country is trapped. And we’ve all seen it—countless profiles of murderers as if they’re somehow fascinatingly interesting and complex people. This may be true on some level and in some extreme cases, but it seems to me that the media needs to do a much better job with keeping such tragedies in context so as not to entice mentally unfit people to seek their own “celebrity” in their own seditious way. The mass murderer was spawn from celebrity—the man behind the crowd, the “taxi driver” so to speak. The mass murderer suddenly decides his or her despondency and suffering surpasses the actual lives of other people. Innocent people.
Where does this come from?—many factors. Politicians and world leaders will point to video games, music lyrics, sensationalized violence as entertainment, disintegrating cultural standards, the desensitization of our children through societal propaganda, etc…the list goes on and on. In the end, kids need good parents. Parenting is the most important job on Earth and it is up to the parent to foster compassion and empathy in children at an early age to help them grow into responsible and caring human beings. Sure, there’s always exceptions. A man’s mind is just that, his mind…prone to malfunction and hysteria. His perception of the world is, by and large, shaped by his view of who he is in relation to who he isn’t. That’s where Mom and Dad come in—to explain right from wrong and that the world does not exist to react to a child’s anger or confusion—even if some “venting” provides a temporary feeling of validation. Killing as many as possible has the ability to get him the attention he never received and hopefully some people will, perhaps, come to “recognize” the scope of his anger or perhaps how much his malfunction meant as it turned itself into hostility.
If only the media had the courage to make the lives of the victims more important and more compelling than those of their assassins. Maybe there would be less killing. Maybe. Maybe not. But nonetheless its worth a try in this day and age.
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