The "United" States of America Is A Disease

America is a fucked up, evil, vicious, country with no soul.

I sometimes feel a little guilt when I say things like that; I know I'm supposed to say this is the greatest country on earth no matter how screwed up it is, and that I would never live anywhere else but..............

name me another "civilized" country that experiences mindless violence the way we do.

A six year old kid brings a gun to school and shoots his teacher? A six year old? Are you fucking kidding me? Where does that come from?

This country has an evil karma that permeates everything about it. It started 300 or 400 years ago, and has spread into every aspect of our lives.

Violence and hatred and prejudice and exploitation and death are just everyday occurrences in everyones' life in this country and we just accept it. Shrug our fucking shoulders, swing by McDonald's on the way home and cover our ears and say "la la la la la" so reality cannot get close to our souls.

Local authorities are figuring out how to "best get services to this young man." That's good. It's not his fault. But authorities should definitely make sure the parents are immediately sterilized, and then tried, found guilty, and executed.

They put fucked up thoughts in this kid's head, and they handed him a gun, one way or another.

I heard someone say on the radio recently that what happened to Damar Hamlin "brought the whole world together." So fucking naive. His situation brought the football world together, it brought football fans together, it brought some people outside the world of sports together, and that's it.

And it won't last.

People will forget about him, they will forget about how his near-death experience shook them up, and go back to the callousness of their lives because that is what we have been trained to do. We shake off violence and cruelty and tragedy like swatting a mosquito.

Same thing with this 6 year old kid. This is something that should shake us to the core and alter the trajectory of our lives. Or at least our thinking, and how we approach our lives.

But it won't. Remember Sandy Hook?

Mindless violence has become reality tv to us.

And America leads the way.

We used to lead the world in all kinds of important "quality of life" measurements. But that has all eroded. We are so low on most of these lists that every citizen should hang their head. Embarrassing for a country with so many riches.

But we got this violence thing down, man. We have mastered it.

And the cold-hearted indifference that makes it possible.