July 3, 2023
It’s a day in America, so it’s all but
guaranteed there’s been a mass shooting. Today’s offering (as in sacrificial – to the Gun Gods, one assumes) was in Baltimore, Maryland. Two dead (so far) and 28
injured. “Injured” always sounds so banal to me. I’m guessing none of those injuries
were in the range of paper cuts, or stepping on a nail. There needs to be more
categories than just dead and injured. But, I digress.
You know how on tv it is unacceptable to
swear or show any sort of nudity without warning potential viewers of the
potential danger of hearing dangerous words or seeing certain apparently
dangerous parts of the human anatomy, but there’s plenty of shooting and
bleeding and dying available for our viewing pleasure? Network television
simply cannot tolerate any of the language described above, or show any type of
nudity, but shooting, bleeding and/or dying after being shot, those are
completely acceptable. Sure, there’s a warning flashed on the screen beforehand
to alert parents, but it’s still there night after night.
To recap, shooting okay, anything hinting at
sexuality or dangerous words, verboten. Ladies and gentlemen, the United States
of America.
Now, many politicos from the Fascist Party
are banning books that deal honestly with slavery, racism, LGBTQ+ issues, sex
and other things that make authoritarian religious extremists uncomfortable,
but they are all for teaching young children how to survive a shooting rampage (though
they go ballistic at the mere mention of trying to stop the relentless mass
shootings) and how to tend to bullet wounds for their classmates, at least
those whose faces have not been blown off.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
What do you
think?
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