And Another Fucking Opinion

Here we go again. The moral examination of our culture.

The talk show/pundit condemnation of the images shown of the human shit bag Cho Seung-Hui on TV are nothing but thinly veiled political gestures. We all know that usually at the end of these condemnations their are always calls for "reforms" and eventually an adherence to some moral platform.

It seems to me that the world will always be interested in unhinged minds that act out violently. Why? My guess is we are fascinated by motivation, that we are and always have been titillated by horrific violence and death, and that we are intrigued by the contextual aspects of violence (was it a war, innocents killed, etc). And after all, death is the only guaranteed metaphysical experience we have and we are awestruck with it. Rightly so.

So some say we should focus more on the positive, that we are unnecessarily obsessing and celebrating the denigration of the human condition. I maintain this fascination with the ugly issues of world has always been true, the only difference being is that now we have more exposure (via our media) to the sometimes horrific nature of our minds. It's also naive to ignore that their are also reasonable economic and social concerns that need to be considered when we choose to ignore bad news.

Pointing the finger at the media is an old and feeble trick that always backfires. It backfires because ultimately we (on a whole) do not subscribe to rigid moral laws. You will hear many bemoaning this fact in these upcoming months. Personally I celebrate it.

And complain all you want. History proves that we have always been fucked up, pretending we are not doesn't make it any less so. And conversely (and more importantly) history also shows that in many ways, our humanity, our empathy towards other people, is steadily improving.

Just because it's difficult to see grass growing doesn't mean it's not.