Yesterday, a German 17 years old boy killed 16 people. One day earlier, a USA boy killed 10. Few months before that, a kid killed 10 in Finland. We had more than 10 similar killings in past 15 years. What is this telling us about our “civilised” western society? Why is it only young men? Why were many of them on antidepressants? Why are all this men NOT coming from extremely poor or hard milieu? Why is Europe importing only shit from the USA?
Parents are working hard, are continuously under stress to buy more cars and more Nike shoes and make a “career”. Kids are stuck in nurseries when they are 3 months old and see the corpses of their parents in the evenings (sometimes not even that) or weekends. Then they are fed with antidepressants, play brutal computer games and watch rubbish TV. They lack joy, love, closeness and a real connection to life in all its beauty.
And then we wonder that they go nuts and start killing around.
We shouldn’t wonder.
It is not about having arms at home (BTW, why does a German businessman have 18 guns at home?).
It is about what our society has turned into. What our priorities are. And if we are able to be really truly happy and satisfied. To selflessly love. And to love life. And transport this feeling to our kids.
They are turning into angry, bloodthirsty, egoistic robots.
Thank you, “development”.
Tags: Commentary, System, USA
Sorry, but our society has not turned into anything. Our society simply does not change. Because people do not change. Atrocities, wars and killings are prevalent over every single year of recorded history.
The only people who live in Joy, love and think about the beauty on earth are people on drugs.
Finally there are limited resources in the world and I dare say happiness is a limited resource just the same. Either we are all somewhat unhappy (like in most communist countries) or some are really happy and others are really unhappy. Its like kids making fun of another kid in class: those who make fun get happier, and the ones who are made fun of get unhappier.
Finally the only “system” that I would complain about is that people always assume that our social welfare governments will take care about whatever they could do wrong by rules & regulations. Then if someone slips through the system and manages to cheat, kill, die, or whatever we deem unacceptable, we blame everything but our own behavior and expect more ‘protection’ instead of dealing with our problems ourselves and get street smart that way. And learn that you have to help yourself or nobody will. Thinking that a social welfare state can be perfected to treat us all like kids and to behave like a perfect parent is an illusion. Normally you will only regulate symptoms and those things we do not understand instead of creating a system that forces people to think before they act.