You opened up the box:brassknight86April 18 2007, 22:08:50 UTC
There are a lot of part of this entry that I would like to expand upon...
However, I will write a concurring opinion of sorts since the final conclusions of the piece are, well, to my liking.
No one stops to think that all of the images of the VT shooting are being packaged and sold like any other information commodity. The media will try to draw connections between this shooting and our lives because then we will assign it more relevance in our minds and keep absorbing the re-packaged violence over and over again. More things happened that day then the shooting, but a disprortionate amount of hub-bub and analysis will be assigned to it. The mass media always jumps on a school shooting and milks it this way. (last time I checked, the most deadly shooting in American History was the civil war... let's not be sensational here...)
What really tears me apart, and puts me in an ethical bind, are all the little facebooks and other "support VT" movements. This puts me in an ethical dilemma and I will tell you why: I believe the students at Virginia Tech deserve to be supported and given condolences. They deserve all the real loving and caring they can get. ...I fail to see the facebook groups as that, though. I find them insincere and self-serving. They say "look... I'm a good person: I support Virginia Tech!" Thousands will join these facebook groups-- practically none of which will be seen by friends and family of the victums. Practically none. In a few months thousands of people will look at their wall of groups and go "What is this? Oh yeah... I guess it's probably time to leave that group now..."
...so, as much as I wish I could help the victums' families, I just deleted all the invites into those groups. I just wouldn't feel honest joining one.
However, I will write a concurring opinion of sorts since the final conclusions of the piece are, well, to my liking.
No one stops to think that all of the images of the VT shooting are being packaged and sold like any other information commodity. The media will try to draw connections between this shooting and our lives because then we will assign it more relevance in our minds and keep absorbing the re-packaged violence over and over again. More things happened that day then the shooting, but a disprortionate amount of hub-bub and analysis will be assigned to it. The mass media always jumps on a school shooting and milks it this way.
(last time I checked, the most deadly shooting in American History was the civil war... let's not be sensational here...)
What really tears me apart, and puts me in an ethical bind, are all the little facebooks and other "support VT" movements. This puts me in an ethical dilemma and I will tell you why: I believe the students at Virginia Tech deserve to be supported and given condolences. They deserve all the real loving and caring they can get.
...I fail to see the facebook groups as that, though. I find them insincere and self-serving. They say "look... I'm a good person: I support Virginia Tech!" Thousands will join these facebook groups-- practically none of which will be seen by friends and family of the victums. Practically none. In a few months thousands of people will look at their wall of groups and go "What is this? Oh yeah... I guess it's probably time to leave that group now..."
...so, as much as I wish I could help the victums' families, I just deleted all the invites into those groups. I just wouldn't feel honest joining one.
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