by Mesuge » Wed 12 Jan 2011, 14:16:19
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', ' ')When I was a kid, good and evil was very clear-cut, but now we're living in a cynical era bordering on nihilism and it actually takes a valiant effort to hold onto any sense of right and wrong. It's far too easy to throw your hands up and adopt the law of the jungle and race to the bottom. That's not how I want to to go. If we're doomed, the least we can do is hold onto a shred of personal integrity.
Hm, interesting, so presumably in those old good days, USA was the good guy and CCCP camp was the evil empire eating kiddies, right? Everebody was happy then. Now we are living in times where computer games are suddenly going deadly realistic in case of remote drones in the Afpak area pumelling public gatherings. Massmedia and intelectuals are blocking or trivializing important topics in public debates. The upper classes can lie, defraud & murder in day light without punishment, they even brag about it. And somehow the J6P aka Sheepleville shouldn't be turning into deep nihilism?
Well, I can catch your quasi-nostalgic drift, but we have been on this trajectory of self-destruction, in cultural and spiritual sense for quite some time. The next station is even deeper Despair, and I doubt there is any rescue brake handle to be found.
Some individuals even here ran amock, when equal blame was put on the rampage psycho as well as that slained system enabling politician. I think it's not attrocious idea at all, first and foremost she was a war enabler, economic pillage enabler, yes just "on paper and telly", but in fact with remote yet very deadly consequencies for real people, somewhere living around the planet.
Obviously there were/are bigger fish to fry, however, this very local face to face standoff is also telling us something.., this act was quite another thing from distant shooter hidden accross the building with sniper rifle or remote detonations. Perhaps it's human IEDs comming home, finally.