Sunday, February 17, 2008
Seems we're living in the Golden Age of Psychos
Well not a few months don't go by before there's another one, this time at some college in Illinois, seems some erstwhile bright and normal student hid behind a curtain onstage during a geology lecture and shot and killed five students and injured several others before taking his own life. Now whenever this happens you will duly note how the meds are to blame or, more specifically the fact that the person stopped taking his meds. Well if a pill is the only thing holding this person's life together then God help us all, he ain't living right. Vast majority of people who are mentally ill are not dangerous or violent although they can be annoying at times point being if you have a strong moral code and compass to begin with you can go bonkers but only up to a point. You may walk into a road and babble to everyone, tell everyone at work that they're conspiring to get rid of you but there are limits to your madness, the Good Lord gave you free will, if you're against killing to begin with maybe they'll just put you away in a nice home overlooking a lake somewhere for a time. Our friend Britney may do all kinds of whacked out things but she hasn't pulled a Columbine or VA Tech yet, my guess is her moral code is still there although frayed around the edges. Now I'm not against medical progress by any stretch but methinks they're pushing pills on society. You don't have to agree with me though, that's a'ight.
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Funny thing is nobody really questions this, like if some little blue or red pill is the only thing holding your grip on Reality together what the hell happened? Whatever happened to turning to the Good Lord? it's like we're pushing lack of free will, secularism. Meds may or may not have their place but my God, since when did they replace all those other traditional things that used to be so important and central to our lives?
ReplyDeleteAs usual a hush falls on the room.
ReplyDeleteAs my father recently said, not to condone suicide by any stretch but it's always interesting that these distraught people never just kill themselves and leave the Rest of Us alone, it's like the world has become the Devil's Playground. Of course the Columbine killers were said to be on their meds at the time so you can go both ways with this one. I find the whole thing very depressing.
I guess I really don't know what to think, it is depressing and scary if you never know who is going to snap and/or when.
ReplyDeleteA visiting priest at Mass today mentioned the violence last week at Illinois, and the previous week the natural violence of a tornado. Many innocent people die tragically everyday. Guess that is why we should take everyday as a gift.
Shortly after that other lunatic, Robert Hawkins, opened fire on a crowded shopping mall just days before Christmas I went to a mall in the country here but after a few minutes felt vaguely uncomfortable and left shortly after, kind of ruined the day for me but getting back to my original point WHY exactly are these people considered less evil than
ReplyDeleteDON IMUS?
on and on and on about "nappy-headed 'hos"
meanwhile these other youngsters are merely portrayed as slipping through the cracks who didn't get the help they deserved from a failed mental health system but
IMUS,
no such slack.
Good point, misplaced priorities here.
ReplyDelete...to continue, you see there are never any mental health issues behind simple racism or perceived racism. I could go on and on about this but whenever I mentioned this at a forum or something nobody could answer it, even at a Catholic discussion board last year nobody even took a stab. Not to downplay the issue but it seems the biggest evil is racism, everything else can be dealt with with a prescription.
ReplyDeleteI still can't get over all that news coverage of the I-man even though Howard Stern has said far worse in his career and gotten away with it. I mean NJ Guv Jon Corzine was practically speeding all the way and got himself in a car accident to go to that famous meeting with Imus and those Rutger's gals, can't we just get a grip and accept a man's 1,000th apology already?
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