So, someone got shot just down the street from me today. It was a bit crazy. Um, I don't know what else to say. People can be assholes?
We had a similar thing where the neighbor living ~20m from our living room & bed room windows shot at his guest with a sawed shotgun and there was some knife fighting as well. We had our first child with us in the bedroom and window pointing straight towards that apartment. We decided to move the fuck out. We had known that it was crappy neighborhood, somehow the unemployed alcoholics and drug users arguing out in the yards gave that away earlier and often kept us awake. If your neighborhood is fine, then it was just an unfortunate incident that could happen anywhere. Even in best neighborhoods people still commit crime but sometimes it can be of different sort. In slums the problem is that when you've got a suicide and a shooting 2 weeks apart and overall all sorts of violence and trouble going on on constant and people shooting around drunk - there will be collateral damage eventually.
Yeah, it was a total anomaly. It's a cliche to hear on the news that a community is "shocked" by some recent crime, but the last time anyone got shot around here was 2009 and it was some 5 year old playing with a gun. He shot some high school kid walking by the house. He lived, thankfully. So yeah, it's pretty shocking for someone to intentionally shoot someone in this Podunk town.
Over here it's usually alcohol related crime, traffic accidents because people are assholes and the odd gun crime but not in these parts. This street especially was really nice, it was a dead end and children could safely play at the end of street. Now they're building lots of apartments and even this street is no longer safe to play in, people drive really, really fast and they also drive on walkstreets, they even moved away the concrete blocks that prevented cars from using the walkstreet as a shortcut. Now people just drive insanely fast into it without even seeing if someone's in their path and right now we're starting to get ice. So eventually some fucker is gonna kill someone because this is 'car region' and people assume that pedestrians jump out of the way if there's any time for it.
It's been crazy everywhere lately. Don't know if they're putting something in the water or the planets are in alignment or what.
I'd say it's simply more connectedness of the people to the internet. Why do you think so many governments are trying to tax, make expensive, censure, or otherwise restrict the flow of information across the web?
I've figured it out. By using Sheep's Demonic Constant ~= 3,02552552552553 if we divide 2015 by the Demonic Constant then the answer is 666 ! END IS NEAR! Just try the calculation yourself, Math and Science are never wrong!
They certainly don't seem reluctant to show us disasters using the power of global media and the internet, and then claim we can only be protected from those by giving them more of our money and civil rights...
Well of course, they(governments) want to use this relatively new media as their own tool, completely bought, paid for, and controlled by them, and them alone. When you have the average Joe able to post stuff, instead of just consuming, it's a problem. Then again, I should probably go put on my tin foil hat.
No you shouldn't. You just associate yourself with 'proletariat' and you are driving forth your own agenda as part of them. I too would do the same had I any strength for such a thing, however I don't feel I have the strength and I always second guess my own capacity to actually recognize the right cause of action. What I wonder is, what if I had tremendous power, would I still seek to give it away and empower the proletariat or would I be disgusted by the worst of them and decide that I know what's best for them? Since I've not been tested I cannot know the true strength of my convictions. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
