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wizardidit
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States14 Posts
April 20 2013 03:25 GMT
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Today is Day of Silence. My day begin with an assembly in the gym, where our principal informed us of a rumor that a former student of our school, who had recently gone missing, was responsible for the Boston bombings. This rumor had been widely propagated through social media. Our principal spoke eloquently of the power of "rumor and innuendo," and condemned news outlets which had published stories on the rumor. I had not seen the story before, and hearing it deeply upset me.

I am, generally, disgusted by the attention the bombings have received. This voyeurism is destructive and cruel. The predatory media and a public always hungry for spectacle have made this tragedy into a macabre festival. The dead ought to be truly and deeply mourned by those around them. The lives of the survivors should be celebrated, and their wounds treated. But the tragedy is the weight of human suffering, not the circumstances accompanying it. These deaths are no more or less significant than the 40 who die violent deaths every single day. This attention, these statuses saying "my heart goes out to those affected," helped no one. This is activism that strives to express sympathy and outrage without requiring any commitment or action. It is an obscene trivialization of death and the grieving process.

Our campus is closed today, no one is allowed out of the building, in order to "protect us from the media vultures." But were it for Day of Silence, I would have loved to be interviewed. I have a gift with words. I wouldn't have been listened to, or even widely heard. But nevertheless it would be a great gift to have been able to share my thoughts out loud.

Instead, I wrote them down here. True, I'm adding to the flood. But I think my message is substantively different from the rest of what is being circulated, even from those arguing that we when we publicize these tragedies "the terrorists win," although I don't disagree with them. And what I say is rooted in a deeply held belief and an emotion that had to be expressed, not an offhanded, polite sympathy. I don't know for sure whether that's enough to make this worth sharing, but I didn't feel like I could keep it to myself.




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Mothra
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States1448 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-20 04:35:09
April 20 2013 04:34 GMT
#2
Yeah the voyeurism and bloodthirsty crowd is rather chilling. I gave in to last night myself, f5ing reddit and listening to the police scanners. It becomes like an entertaining spectacle, which is kind of disrespectful for the dead and those who will live the rest of their lives as amuptees. It's almost like the Roman gladiator matches, we still enjoy seeing blood on suffering at some level, so long as we can walk away from it whenever we please. Was that Sunil that was a former classmate of yours? It was disturbing to read all the blood thirsty hatred toward him and his family last night, then waking up this morning and finding that the suspects were totally unrelated.
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