Wrath and Fury
My fellow law students might be smart on paper, if that, but most of us don't seem to have much sense. I just witnessed a duo reminiscent of Beavis and Butthead actually point like fucking trained monkeys at the tv in the lounge and laugh at French protestors being sprayed with water and tear gas to disrupt their marches. Hello, stupid fuckers, that's real. Its not fucking WWF fake wrestling.
It brings to mind the critical question with which my generation will hopefully someday have to grapple in a serious manner. Our lives are fake, inside and out, but there are some things in the world that are real. Do we realize it?
It brings to mind the critical question with which my generation will hopefully someday have to grapple in a serious manner. Our lives are fake, inside and out, but there are some things in the world that are real. Do we realize it?
posted by thankgodforpbr at 3/28/2006 10:38:00 AM
6 Comments:
Imagine, a whole generation of trained monkeys. Wait, I don't have to imagine, it's real. How sad. I wonder what will have to happen to make people give a shit about what's happening in this country, much less the world. My guess is it will be something catastrophic. Reality, like Mother Nature, bats last.
why is that not funny?
Momentary Pessimism:
As children of the appropriately dubbed "Me" generation of boomers, where narcissism is very often an intrinsic trait rather than a pesky vice, what can you really expect? Why bother identifying with the “other” if something “looks funny?” For these people, empathy for another’s dignity is a trained response that too often only comes at the tail end of a movie-of-the-week or blockbuster spectacle, where the point is to drive the point home; over dramatized, exaggerated to absurdity, cliché’s abused and re-abused until we shed a tear because we’re suppose to… THAT’s when the ego of a narcissist can pierced, when his self and his ethical self can occupy the same space without requiring any depth of thought, self-exploration, or indeed any extra effort at all. A horse lead to water and, without realizing it, drinking.
Makes you want to choke people into being really and truly human.
-BrickyardBlues
Maybe Bevis and his friend saw the police as doing what needed to be done. Now why on Earth would they think the protesters needed to be disbanded? Hmmm....
From ABC news:
Vehicles were set on fire and overturned, and nearby windows smashed.
At least five officers and about a dozen demonstrators were injured and over 100 people were arrested in the unrest at the eastern Place de la Nation that lasted nearly four hours, police said.
From CNN:
PARIS, France (CNN) -- Hundreds of thousands of people across France protested labor legislation on Saturday, prompting violent clashes between demonstrators and police.
Amid scattered bonfires, bottle-throwing and smoke filled barricaded streets, the clashes resulted in four injured police officers and 12 hurt protesters, Paris police told The Associated Press. Police in the capital said they arrested 156 people
From Deccan Herald (India)
Hundreds of young demonstrators defied police on Saturday night and Sunday morning following a peaceful march though Paris which attracted up to 350,000 people. The demonstrators hurled objects at officers who eventually drove them back, charging the crowd and using tear gas grenades.
Vehicles were set on fire and overturned, and nearby windows smashed.
From Rueters UK:
Dozens of youths pelted police with missiles, set a car ablaze and smashed a shop window at the end of the main protest in Paris. Police cleared them from Nation square with many rounds of tear gas.
Scattered violence was also reported in Marseille, Rennes and Lille, where police also charged and teargassed crowds.
"This is an ultimatum," Rene Valadon, confederal secretary of the Force Ouvriere union, said after union and student leaders met following the third nation-wide protest in six weeks. "The government and the president have 48 hours to decide."
I very much appreciate the citations from the author of post #4 as they bring some context to a sticky situation.
I must say though that the issue raised in the original post was not whether the police's actions were appropriate (an issue of valid debate), or whether the dynamic duo were in concurrence with police action, but rather with their ability to watch the humiliation and injury of REAL PEOPLE, struggling in a difficult and desperate time of their lives and national history, without empathy. Watch it as comedic entertainment.
To the author of comment #4 to this post:
I very much appreciate your citations as they bring some context to a sticky situation.
I must say though that the issue raised in the original post was not whether the police's actions were appropriate (an issue of valid debate), or whether the dynamic duo were in concurrance with police action, but rather with their ability to watch the humiliation and injury of REAL PEOPLE, struggling in a difficult and desperate time of their lives and national history, without empathy. Watch it as comedic entertainment.
-BrickyardBlues
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