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Jan. 28th, 2004 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidenthe other day a friend sent me a forwarded email from Michael Moore. in it, he said that people were asking him who he planned to vote for in the upcoming primaries. he seemed to think that people asked him who he was voting for because they wanted him to tell them who they should vote for. and maybe that's true. but it means that there are a bunch of sheep out there just looking for a loud fat shepherd. (gun culture didn't cause columbine, pop culture caused columbine- all those boys did was carry out the violent fantasy of every geek teen of my generation. i remember thinking that i was impressed that they went through with it and then how to revise the plan to be much more successful. so we fight guns, and not preferences for economic and sports prowess, because we can make sound bites about it and band-aid laws. the truth about what hurts young people is too difficult for Americans to stomach, and too complex to attempt real change.)
Dennis Miller now has a show on MSNBC. he also is being quite forward with his political selections. (he's become a bitter, bitter man. and he's not really able to use his failures as material, but he keeps trying. and the semi-obscure references are starting to feel like a contractual obligation. but i'm glad people keep trying to find a niche for him.)
these men are entertainers, and the fact that they have a pulpit to speak from does not mean that what they say is gospel. in fact, i think they have no right to attempt to peddle political influence. Michael Moore is on a mobius strip with Rush Limbaugh, and i want both of them to self-promote and name drop at home.
shut up Ted Danson, Martin Sheen, and Meathead. people aren't listening because they care what you say, they're listening because you're fun to watch. that's all. you only affect the weakest minds - and they will change them when someone else attracts their attention.
for all the actors that i know personally, JUST SAY NO.
Dennis Miller now has a show on MSNBC. he also is being quite forward with his political selections. (he's become a bitter, bitter man. and he's not really able to use his failures as material, but he keeps trying. and the semi-obscure references are starting to feel like a contractual obligation. but i'm glad people keep trying to find a niche for him.)
these men are entertainers, and the fact that they have a pulpit to speak from does not mean that what they say is gospel. in fact, i think they have no right to attempt to peddle political influence. Michael Moore is on a mobius strip with Rush Limbaugh, and i want both of them to self-promote and name drop at home.
shut up Ted Danson, Martin Sheen, and Meathead. people aren't listening because they care what you say, they're listening because you're fun to watch. that's all. you only affect the weakest minds - and they will change them when someone else attracts their attention.
for all the actors that i know personally, JUST SAY NO.
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Date: 2005-06-04 05:09 am (UTC)now you've got me curious. which truth(s) did you have in mind?
what hurts young people (and stuff)
Date: 2005-06-04 06:08 pm (UTC)- parents would rather give their children objects than time
- adults abandon responsibility for teaching young people how to make responsible choices
- we reward people for being entertaining, rather than being wise or productive
- the fact that those boys were being persecuted is less important in reporting than how pretty and popular the dead were
- that it took an act of violence for anyone to consider that a kid might get upset or become mentally unbalanced after years of physical and psychological torture
i'm still bitter about my high school's practice of announcing and posting notices of each sports achievement throughout the school, while each academic achievement was known only to the recipient (or the parents at the senior dinner). i'm bitter that we had a dozen sports teams, and zero academic teams (debate, forensics, etc).
i was only a few steps away from those boys. tighter gun laws wouldn't have stopped me - my father is a hunter and gun collector, so the house was full of legit weapons (none of that automatic shit though) and one of my chores was to dust them. but my parents were interested in me, and they got me as much outside stimualtion as they could afford. without that, i could have masterminded a much more successful event than Mr Harris and Mr Klebold.
i also note that there was a more recent high school shooting on a reservation and it barely registered with the feds or the national media. kids who aren't rich and white have been, and continue to, kill each other. as a collective, we don't seem to think that matters as much. that's not solved by restricting gun sales either.