i hate the media

[loueperella]

Now, I am not trying to take anything away from the killings at the VT campus. It was a shock to me and even scarier that Blacksburg is a mere 100 miles from me in Bristol, VA. It makes you think that this could happen anywhere. What if a disgruntled student who was kicked out of school came back to seek revenge? Or a student here who was upset at the current financial situation of my school (it isn't pretty)? It can happen anywhere and at any time. My annoyance with this whole situation is that for days now we have seen nothing but the "anatomy of the killer", "32 extraordinary lives", and "how this could have been prevented". First and foremost, this guy was on a mission and would have killed no matter what. It couldn't have been stopped. Second, fuck that guy. I don't give a shit about his psych. He was fucked up. Stop giving him any notoriety. I don't care who he was, what he was like, where he was from, or anything about him. He is a monster. The end. Stop trying to rationalize his behavior. Finally, it bothers me how much people in the US get bent out of shape over death. Death sucks. I hate it. I don't want to die right now and I hate the feeling when someone close to you does. But the thing I don't like is that the day after the shootings there were over 170 people killed in Iraq. There is carnage in Africa far worse than we have ever seen acted towards America. Yet, the lives of these 32 people are far more important than those of the innocent killed every day in a pointless war or in a suffering nation. Why is it that our lives are more important than anyone else's? Aren't we all human? Look at what 9/11 has done to us. We lost almost 3,000 lives. The Atomic bombs dropped in Japan killed 140,000 people. But people here make it seem like our 3,000 deaths were far worse than the 140,000 lives lost in Japan. Or even a quarter of a million lives lost in a tsunami. People will always remember 9/11 but tend to forget the plight of those who lost absolutely everything because of Mother Nature.

I guess overall my grief is not solely with the media but with the idea that 1 American life is worth n lives of another country. Sometimes n is 5 and sometimes it is 150. But it never has been nor ever will be 1.

I am sorry for those who have lost love ones due to aggression and hate and insanity. i truly am. And I am grateful that I have not had to experience such a loss. But my life is young and the world is not getting any nicer any time soon.