Re: columbine
bob pigeon (sid-vicious@mindspring.com)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:22:32 -0700
>It's all very well to say `oh well, shit happens, let's get on with our
>lives' but we should hold on to the anger and sorrow we feel about it
>rather than just letting it melt away into indifference. Because if we do,
>it will keep happening, kids will keep having guns and feeling unloved, and
>tragedies will happen -
so the next time something like this happens it'll be because no one cared
enough? what about when there was that string of school shootings...i think
people were really concerned after the first, horrified after the second,
and then there was a third...
we make a big deal out of the holocaust in wwii and we have museums and
books and memorial weeks and stuff like "never forget - don't let it happen
again"
that didn't prevent anything in kosovo or rwanda
it's like they say...history repeats itself...russia's general winter beat
napoleon and it beat hitler too, and if we all start caring it's not gonna
stop it from happening again. there's always going to be crazy people and
people that don't agree with you and people that do bad things, and all of
us sitting around in a circle saying "it's sad and let's hold on to our
anger so it doesn't happen again" isn't going to save the world cos IT'S
ALWAYS GOING TO BE THERE!!! there's no such thing as good without evil to
complement it.
---
"So you don't want to study? What can you do? What good are you?
What can you *do*? It has cost me thousands of dollars to raise
you, feed you, and clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the
street? Then what would you do?"
"Catch butterflies"
-- Charles Bukowski