Rainy nights in Brussels
I was gonna go shopping today. Had no time to do that yesterday since I finished reading the second book about Abarat. And then I had to hurry away to french class.
But today's been foggy and cold and I don't really feel like going out. I'm a bit low.
So after my huge and VERY pleasant breakfast I just sat here. And found out that there's been a new school shooting in Finland.
I've heard people expressing strong emotions about this, everybody wanna know why. I read /b/ and I'm not wondering. He was a lonely man, 22 years old and his interests were (according to his youtube account, which has been suspended in the last couple of hours): guns, beer, sex. I'm guessing it's the same old story. Bullied in school, felt powerful with his weapons (he had a walter 0.22 which he seemed proud of) wanted revenge, etc. Started dreaming about a bloody revenge.
Sure. This is nobody's fault (meaning, society and government's fault).
What he did is his responsability (I don't know if he's alive at this point, the raports are both vague and contradictional).
But it's all the people around him, what they did, and didn't do that encouraged him.
I know that blaming one single website is stupid, but they sadly enough encourage this in several ways, not only literally.
What do they want, those shooters? What is it they want to achieve?
A school with dead students? I suppose.
To kill those who teased them? Possible.
But why in that case go to school and randomly shoot at everybody? AND more importantly, why warn people the day before?
I can only come up with one reason. What they want to achieve is what (sadly enough) most people want:
Fame.
They are nobodies, growing up in Nobodysville, knowing that they will be nobodies for the rest of their lives. Unless they do something drastic. This is their way to go down in history, in some cases even tributed as heroes. This is their way to be remembered, and it's sick. It's desperate.
It reminds me of how boys usually tease the girl they like just to get her attention. "All publicity is good publicity". And so on.
I'm not sure I had a point with this but I felt like writing it down, my thoughts. I feel strongly about whenever people feed of other people's misfortune, either by crying their eyes out going: "my friend's brother's classmate once drove past the town where it happened and oh my god it could have been me" or by encouraging it, and inspire other people to do it. It's insulting for those who experience true loss (parents, friends of the murdered kids). But also do these vultures show those nobodies that crime really does pay off.
See? That finlandian nobody even made it to my blog, which is supposed to be about Brussels.
But today's been foggy and cold and I don't really feel like going out. I'm a bit low.
So after my huge and VERY pleasant breakfast I just sat here. And found out that there's been a new school shooting in Finland.
I've heard people expressing strong emotions about this, everybody wanna know why. I read /b/ and I'm not wondering. He was a lonely man, 22 years old and his interests were (according to his youtube account, which has been suspended in the last couple of hours): guns, beer, sex. I'm guessing it's the same old story. Bullied in school, felt powerful with his weapons (he had a walter 0.22 which he seemed proud of) wanted revenge, etc. Started dreaming about a bloody revenge.
Sure. This is nobody's fault (meaning, society and government's fault).
What he did is his responsability (I don't know if he's alive at this point, the raports are both vague and contradictional).
But it's all the people around him, what they did, and didn't do that encouraged him.
I know that blaming one single website is stupid, but they sadly enough encourage this in several ways, not only literally.
What do they want, those shooters? What is it they want to achieve?
A school with dead students? I suppose.
To kill those who teased them? Possible.
But why in that case go to school and randomly shoot at everybody? AND more importantly, why warn people the day before?
I can only come up with one reason. What they want to achieve is what (sadly enough) most people want:
Fame.
They are nobodies, growing up in Nobodysville, knowing that they will be nobodies for the rest of their lives. Unless they do something drastic. This is their way to go down in history, in some cases even tributed as heroes. This is their way to be remembered, and it's sick. It's desperate.
It reminds me of how boys usually tease the girl they like just to get her attention. "All publicity is good publicity". And so on.
I'm not sure I had a point with this but I felt like writing it down, my thoughts. I feel strongly about whenever people feed of other people's misfortune, either by crying their eyes out going: "my friend's brother's classmate once drove past the town where it happened and oh my god it could have been me" or by encouraging it, and inspire other people to do it. It's insulting for those who experience true loss (parents, friends of the murdered kids). But also do these vultures show those nobodies that crime really does pay off.
See? That finlandian nobody even made it to my blog, which is supposed to be about Brussels.
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Postat av: CORNELIA
lollo, nu har jag varit här i fem dagar, saknar er som fan. men jag älskar couchsurfing! hoppas att jag kan komma hem till jul så att vi alla kan ses igen!!
min kärlek till dej lollo!
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