This is about a shooting at a TV station in 2017.
I just found a post I did on it, and it's still, and forever will be topical. It begins,...
One of the down sides of being a shut in that sleeps all the time is that you miss stuff. Like what happened at WBDJ-TV this afternoon. A multi gun shoot-out from pissed off fired staff.
Truly we live in an Age of Terror.
I actually am hesitant to leave my home for fear I'll be shot dead by a policeman for no reason. Well there's other stuff too like snakes reptilians disguised as hot dog vendors, and of course direct hits by kitchen sinks or grand pianos falling out of the blue, and apparent innocent sky.
Death behind the microphone.
Having spent more than half my life in that Biz. I've seen my share of violent events in, and around the studios. Violent assaults sexual harassment suicide attempts. I'll draw a curtain over the specifics for the sake of the privacy of the persons involved.
Like at the ill-fated TV stations,...and not a few radio outlets. Acts of violence intimidation, and a general toxic atmosphere are not unusual in such work places today. Mercifully they don't always erupt into mass murder.
However,...yeah here it comes, with all the guns out there from school yards to board rooms it's no surprise that when the shit truly hits the fan some one or ones gets shot the fuck dead.
Gun Control?
Rational 'Regulation' is the only way out. Fortunately the majority of gun owners agree. Sadly the NRA, and the assorted Nazi survivalist don't.
They have power far beyond their numbers because of the money that supports them in their holy work. That, and the religious fervor of how these folks feel about "Guns'n Jesus".
It's a long story.
That's where we are, and have been for decades politically, and centuries culturally.
If anybody has any ideas about this I'm listening.
"We come upon a contention which is so astonishing that we must dwell upon it. This contention holds that what we call our civilization is largely responsible for our misery, and that we should be much happier if we gave it up and returned to primitive conditions. I call this contention astonishing because, in whatever way we may define the concept of civilization, it is a certain fact that all the things with which we seek to protect ourselves against the threats that emanate from the sources of suffering, are part of that very civilization."
ReplyDelete-Sigmund Freud, "Civilization and Its Discontents"
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." -Emerson
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
-William Butler Yeats
And if that's not enough, try this on for size:
"Mind near exhaustion still makes its final futile movement towards that 'way out or round or through the impasse'.
That is the utmost now that mind can do. And this, its last expiring thrust, is to demonstrate that the door closes upon us for evermore.
There is no way out, or round or through."
-H. G. Wells, "Mind At The End Of Its Tether"
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
ReplyDeleteCreeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Shakespeare, Macbeth Act 5, scene 5, 19–28
Hey don't hold back tell us how you really feel.
ReplyDeleteThis is why I was a speed freak, and coke head for all those years. I medicated myself through the 1980's, and 90's. From then to now I just suffered like everybody else.
Sobriety is not what it cracked up to be.