I remember when I was still a wool-over-the-eyes kid/teenager... nothing really phased me. Gross stuff, gore, screaming damsels/terrorists in action flicks was so much of a spectacle to me like watching a demolition derby or some pyro setting off fireworks, or Jackass? (sup wee man!!) and its only after Ive become an ah-dolt that.... well, stuff I see actually seems to 'click'.
And then, well, I just HAD to click that FARK link to the guardian where it covered Tranquility Bay back in 04... :roll: then I just HAD to keep going back to it because of how fucked up it was... and well, I ended up here long story short.
One thing that really just burns me with both just... outright frustration and contempt, and on the other hand outright stunned confusion is that it really seems that nobody ever thinks or really gives a fuck about thinking what it must be like to be going through what those other people are going through. Nobody ever seems to think about this shit from the perspective of the kid, or the kids sibling. Nobody dares think what its like to be helplessly shoved face down on the ground with your limbs being twisted, elbows and knees in your back, some fat fuck leaning his weight on you (and possibly an erection, for that matter) while zombie-faced inmates stare blankly and more staffers run up....
Not just the program parents, staffers, etc, mind you, but the average person these days seems to just have absolutely nothing left in them to make them consider what it must be like for the people suffering. At all. Hell, when I first read about those LGATs I was unsure if I was more angry or terrified of it, and it still sticks in my mind... I don't expect the average idiot to understand what an LGAT could do to you mentally, but I DO think the physical brutality, fear and helplessness from being trapped in a program and not knowing how or when you would get out, and ESPECIALLY having your own family turned against you could click with the average sheep... but they don't.
Are they unable, or do they just not care anymore? That question really sticks in my mind, and I'm kind of afraid of what the answer might turn out to be...
Oh, and as far as the beginning of my post goes? Now I can't watch shit about the holocaust, or hear the intro to Schindler's list with other people around me anymore, unless I'm not worried about being humiliated by showing emotion infront of them. I simply can not stand it. Also, shit like "SAW" or "Gothika" fucks me up goooood. Ugh.
I'm starting to wonder if compassion and empathy are liabilities in the USA, this day and age. It seems to be to "BE AMERICAN!!1one" means I have to just sing "By Jingo, will" and be a typical white-bread twit, buy the truthiness-laden nonsense and politico-chauvinistic excuses and justifications for this and that, be "hard" on everyone, bitch about entitlement issues... but not say a word when the 'ah-dolts' in the equation feel ENTITLED to spend conspicuously, live vicariously through their kids, spend themselves into debt, drive SUV's and bitch about gasoline.
Yeah, I'm bitching, but I got a point here. WHERE DID IT GO? Why the hypocrisy and lack of anyone ever daring to look out the eyes of someone else who is getting the short end of the stick here, if not being beat with a few of them? It still burns me to know how program parents turn their backs on their own children and don't DARE (haha, wow... that word again) think about what their kid is going through, just cling and squeeze to the bullshit about how they're 'thriving'.
Ugh. I guess we're all square pegs and this country is fulla' some round assholes!
