It's just a bunch of white flowers.
On top of a whole lot of other bunches of white flowers.
At a spot where I couldn't stand for long, for shame, because the thought of a
quiet, young Korean girl having her head smashed-in by some
good-for-nothing piece-of-shit makes me seethe.
The flowers don't help her. It's all too late.
I've been seething all week. And thinking about, what is now quite obviously, a growing social culture of 'Me-ism'. It's all about 'Me'.
Me. Me. Me.
Like the above girl sporting a marketing piece that says 'My Time. It's All About Me'.
It seems that 'I' can do whatever 'I' want.
I can post on Facebook what me and my drunk mates get up to.
I can wear whatever-the-hell I want. Post a Selfie. And expect my idiot masses to applaud me for looking cheap and awful.
I can kill someone innocent, in the early hours of the morning, because that's all I've ever wanted to do.
I agree. We've created a heaven for sociopaths. Everywhere they look, they find justification.
ReplyDeleteI just don't get it. Are people becoming more selfish and self-obsessed, or is that too simple a solution? I deplore facebook (there are good and bad sides to it) and have tried to delete my account a number of times but I don't think I can - that alone is scary.
DeleteOh Carmel, I wish I had the answers. I've been talking to my kids this week about the evil that is Facebook, that how they must never walk anywhere alone, particularly when they go to Uni (one's nine for goodness sake)! Terrible to have to put fear in my children's heads, but I am frightened. Frightened by where we're headed as a society. I pray none of us ever have to fly to another country to collect our daughter's body. My heart breaks for them.
ReplyDeleteI watched her father on the news last night. That poor man. And her mother. Imagine being handed an urn filled with your beautiful daughter's ashes. Their lives now have this horrible, unfillable hole. The two Korean girls we had were the most gentle, respectful and delightful creatures you'd ever meet. It's tragic. I think Facebook is evil too.
DeleteThe news of the murder has not made it to the states, but that is par for the course. If it didn't happen here, it doesn't count. That parochial attitude has played a role in the de-sensitizing of the youth, here. Another major element in the de-sensitization of youth is the Internet, and the gratuitous violence in video games, movies and t.v. When people cease to be real, and death ceases to be real, people become sociopaths. I cannot read newspapers past the front section because I cannot tolerate the huge number of stories about kids killing kids, parents killing kids, and kids killing parents. What do we do about it? I think the first step is a dialogue, there must be recognition of the problem. Just as the dialogue about bullying has started to change the way schools deal with students, we need a dialog, and a recognition, about the fact that young people are being turned into de-sensitized sociopaths. Most will never physically harm anyone else, but they will hurt themselves with a brutal, uncaring outlook on life.
ReplyDeleteYes. This heinous crime should be enough to shock our nation.
ReplyDeleteBut will it?
Of course not.
Morals and ethics are words no longer in use as each generation now emerges. Where does it start?
In the home . But what is happening there?
I hate to think.
I just can't see how the obsession with self that typifies the 'me generation' can lead to long-term happiness.
ReplyDeleteFacebook has created a whole new plethora of ways to be self-obsessed and have that rewarded.
And as for that poor beautiful Korean girl - it is just horrible. Unfortunately I think there will always be sociopaths, with or without social media.
Such a sad, sad outcome for both these families. I am not sure which is worse, losing your daughter this way or discovering that after 19 years invested in your raising your child that you have created a sociopath. mel.
ReplyDeleteI'm so pleased you paid your respects, if any thing a visual for her family that we will not tolerate this violence.
ReplyDeleteSo sad Carmel. That poor Father. I just can't imagine.
ReplyDeleteI have a love/hate relationship with social media because you can't seem to have the good without the bad. I hate the whole "me" culture. I don't like Facebook but I do have an account even though It does leave me feeling rather 'cold' if I spend more than a few minutes on there….