Re: columbine

Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:35:28 -0700 (PDT) 

OK, if you're easily offended, read no further.

I hate to seem like I'm heartless, but I don't know what disturbs me 
more: the shooting or the circus surrounding it.  The only thing 
that's been missing is the Elvis impersonators and Bobo the dancing 
clown.  
I mean, when you get right down to it, we're talking about rich, 
spoiled, BMW driving 16 year olds.  They died quickly.  What about the 
millions dying slowly of malnutrition, starvation, or a myriad of 
other things that are preventable and yet not taken care of out of 
indifference or negligence?  Where are their sympathy fundraisers?
Mostly, though, it comes down to the fact that terrible things happen 
in the world.  If I worry about them all, I get bogged down in useless 
grief.  If I worry about a select few, then I'm a hypocrite, and 
arbitrary about which strangers I mourn.
Bad things happen.  That's too bad.  Good things happen, too.  I'd 
rather worry about that.

Thor


>
>>i apologize for the fact that this has nothing to do with 
salinger...
>
>god knows everything else is
>
>>i don't think we are letting the shooting at columbine consume our 
lives...
>
>i do.
>maybe not CONSUME
>but definitely play an enormous part as of late
>
>i get email from my aunt in ca...to the whole family...what does she 
say?
>"isn't what happened in colorado terrible?  I just don't understand"
>
>i have a substitute for my music class
>"how about what happened in colorado?  it's just awful"
>
>almost every mailing list I'm on
>"the massacre in columbine is a terrible thing"
>
>>speaking as a high school student, it is not a small or pleasant 
thing to 
>>realize your own mortality.  
>
>it's a bad thing...wasn't it camus that said something like those who 
think
>and worry about death are the weakest...something...maybe "those who 
are
>always searching for the meaning of life can't enjoy it"
>something like that
>
>>obviously an incident like the one at columbine is not preventable, 
but it is 
>>a bit unsettling to suddenly feel unsafe in a place that you never 
felt was 
>>the least bit dangerous.  of course it's going to be a topic of 
conversation. 
>
>but it's become a neverending topic of conversation and no one says 
anything new
>
>>ease up.
>
>i'll go into my stash of chill pills
>
>---
>"So you don't want to study?  What can you do?  What good are you?
> What can you *do*?  It has cost me thousands of dollars to raise
> you, feed you, and clothe you!  Suppose I left you here on the 
> street?  Then what would you do?"
>"Catch butterflies"
>				-- Charles Bukowski
>


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