Commentary: Fear and Loathing in America

I can demonstrate to you that in almost every single case that one of these guys goes off and shoots a bunch of people there is a common thread of mental illness, social rejection, isolation and ostracization, and use of prescribed pharmaceuticals, such as anti-depressants or anti-psychotics. Yet you never hear about this in the major news media. Maybe because this is actually rather important? You see, the military industrial complex, the banking industrial complex, and the pharmaceutical industrial complex are all intertwined. Even if guns are banned the military has an ace in the hole, because war is never going out of vogue at this rate, and the banks are running the show. However, they need to keep us dumb, shallow, and fearful. How much easier is it to do that than with drugs? They realized long ago that people were catching on to the fact that alcohol, tobacco, and recreational drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and marijuana were so common it was as if someone wanted them there to keep us sedated. They weren't going to get all of us. So what could they do? Prescribe our children drugs. There are some people naive enough to believe that prescription drugs are completely safe just because the doctor gave them to them. We'll just diagnose our kids with ADD, ADHD, etc.... which are rather non-existent diseases for the most part. Hyperactivity is part of being a child, parents today have their heads stuck so far up their asses they don't want to nurture their own kids. "Take two of these and play Call of Duty while I go out on the town." And then they wonder why the kids grow up all fucked up. No one's taking care of them and talking to them on a basic human level. It's all about convenience, "I can give him a pill and he just takes a nap and I can get things done." We're busy shoving our kids into overly-introverted (a little introversion is fine) submissive blank states. Obey. Obey. Obey.

It's really no surprise to me that people end up snapping like this. Have you ever been dropped in a place where maybe you're just a little bit different from everyone else? For some of us, this place was called school. A place where the jocks get patted on the head, and if you don't fit in you're gonna spend the next few years eating your lunch in the bathroom stall and most people think your name is 'Hey, Faggot.' A place where you're supposed to blindly listen to authority figures, no matter how much you might feel they're wrong. And if you ever stand up for yourself, you'll probably just end up with more trouble than you started off with. It might sound hokey, it might sound like a joke, but it's a stark reality for many. For a while, I felt out of place, and I was lucky that people left me alone for the most part. It was still disorienting and tough all it's own, but I eventually mellowed out and found my place. I'm one of the lucky ones. I could have gone to an intolerant shit-hole like Columbine. Let's talk about Dylan and Eric actually. More than any other case, it strikes me ever so much. That could have been me. Why wasn't it me? At the very least we could have been friends. Me and Eric, especially, share a lot of mutual interests, such as Doom and KMFDM. Hell, I bowled in high school too. And I wonder if we had been friends, could things have gone differently? No telling, but it doesn't stop me from wondering. But that's all besides the point. What happens when you take someone who's already got a major disconnect from society and possibly a little bit from reality, and add in full disconnection from reality? I think you know. Listen to any of the side effects for things like Fanapt (which Adam Lanza's uncle claims he was using, I bet we'll never get the truth on that one) or Prozac..... confusion, abnormal dreams, ringing in ears, hyperactive behaviour (which means AHDH medication is getting deployed as well, oh the mixing of drugs!), a bevy of sexual problems (and who are we kidding, no doubt these kids are sexually frustrated already), mania, thoughts of suicide, loss of memory, loss of coordination, mood changes, and get this one "loss of one's own sense of reality or identity." "I am the Joker" indeed.

I'm not saying our gun laws couldn't use some work, and I'm not saying that it's not terrible every time anyone dies. But people always want to go on a witch hunt AFTER the fact. These things happen time and time again as a result of neglected mental illness. People who want to kill people are going to find a way to do it. You can make chlorine gas in your bathroom, which could wipe out an entire classroom. It's so easy to make people severely injure themselves all the time by accident. When are we going to put down our preconceived notions and allow them to live as they are and show them true love and compassion? We need to address the root issue here. We don't love each other. And the media is always there to keep us distracted. Keep us scared of our own brothers and sisters, to the point where we jump at the sight of our own neighbors. What the hell is wrong with us? Humans are inherently good. Life could be so much easier if we stopped listening to the machine.

Poetry: No Reason

Through suffering we must abide; For by abiding we endure.
Through endurance we gain strength; With strength we can overcome.

Survive.

Agony is mine, for I embrace it.
Agony is mine, so I can break it.
Even if it has no reason; Life is still a mission.

Don't fall victim to depression, addiction, self destruction.
Life is yours, and only you can remove obstruction.

Life is pain, our greatest teacher.
Lady death, do not beseech her.