Quote: (10-02-2015 07:42 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:
It's posts like this that make me love AB that much more.
It sounds jaded, but, we've been here, multiple times.
I know the political and media institutions have been so thoroughly-subverted that they'll be completely-inept at their original functions: to lead a nation effectively, or to give a factual, impartial account of events.
I know the responses of the media, the politicians and the social commentators before they even open their mouths: frame the discussion in a way further their particular personal agenda.
I don't expect any deep insight or new angle.
Shit, I was digitising old demo tapes a few months back and found a terrible song I wrote in 1993 about the media's reaction to the James Bulger case, (since was the Gen X style at the time). I rhymed 'believe' with 'Chucky 3', which should clue you in on how bad it is.
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Why? Because the media used the murder to further its own agenda: calling for the banning of 'video nasties' which were 'turning kids into killers', ('Doom' was still 10 months from release). The government then used this outrage to further
their agenda.
Which meant, despite investigations like this:
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During the police investigation, it emerged that Child's Play 3 was one of the films that Jon Venables' father had rented in the months prior to the killing, but it was not established that Jon had ever watched it.
and this:
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A Merseyside detective said "We went through something like 200 titles rented by the Venables family. There were some things you or I wouldn't want to see, but nothing – no scene, or plot, or dialogue – where you could put your finger on the freeze button and say that influenced a boy to go out and commit murder."
and this:
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Inspector Ray Simpson of Merseyside Police commented: "If you are going to link this murder to a film, you might as well link it to The Railway Children".
... the Media and the Government used the outrage to help pass the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994, which was about the restriction and reduction of existing rights in the UK, and the criminalisation of previously-civil offences. It was amended by the Crime and Disorder Act of 1998, which took away even more rights. If you wonder why the UK is a police state, it's all in those two Acts, and it just took a media circus to fan the outrage to get it passed.
Things still play out the same. On cue: Guns, Right Wingers, White Supremacists, Toxic masculinity, 4 Chan, Gamergate were all blamed by the usual suspects, depending on their particular agenda, all before the bodies were cold.
This is simply what they do, and it's pointless complaining about it.
I don't expect a cat to bark, I don't expect a car to fly, and I don't expect someone 20 years younger and 3 standard deviations less intelligent than me to offer me any insight into any topic whatsoever, particularly when they have no work ethic or any commitment to journalistic standards.
They don't believe men and women are different. They don't believe obese people are unhealthy. They don't believe women should have children when they're young and fertile. They don't believe in
reality. Why the hell would I expect anything but borderline-retarded dribbling during any outrage cycle? There is nothing to be learnt except that crazy people are crazy, and if the crazy are either gunning down people in public, they're giving their useless opinions in print or on television.
It's easier to just accept the fact that this is the society we live in, and that every power structure around you is incompetent, so train yourself to handle conflict, and be ever vigilant. I grew under the cloud of nuclear war, expecting to have - at best - a three minute warning.