Normally one
of my WEEKLY BITCHING entries would be filled with links to articles, pictures,
videos, whatever. Today is a little different as this entry is going to be
based entirely on simple, basic logic than on the “stated facts” from various media
sources. The facts you cna look up for yourself in this entry as that is what you should do anyways, but I digress. Adam Lanza is once again in the news because of a speculated desire to
top the actions of Anders Behring Breivik, the man responsible for more than 70
deaths in a mass rampage in Norway back in 2011. Whether based on truth or not,
people who dabble in mass-murder are more than likely in some level of
competition in order to make a name for themselves based on the number, not the
victims.
Part of that
speculation included what this article is going to be about; in the CNN article
a one-sentence paragraph pops up: “The same officials also linked Lanza's
actions to violent video games.”
Here we go
again. Placing the blame on something other than the suspect’s own actions
and/or mental state is nothing new. It’s the traditional “go-to” and “fall-back”
for parents, the media and society when tragic things like this occur. Simply
put; the human mind cannot comprehend that someone is capable of such actions
so there must be an external reason for it. Suicide and mass-murder just CANNOT
come from within, no, it must be someone else’s fault and they are to blame.
Conspiracy theorists love this stuff and spread their “findings” like a seagull
with explosive diarrhea, coving everything in their watery path.
Let’s look at
what the conspiracy theorists blame on both Sandy Hook and James Eagan Holmes’ Aurora
movie massacre: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. One of the stupidest causes I saw was
that there was a building in the film with 'AURORA' on it and that was the
subliminal trigger for the massacre. Incorrect. The building was actually in
SKYFALL, which hadn’t even been remotely released at the time of the theater
massacre (SKYFALL was released in America on November 9, 2012). So that one fails
just on the reality of a little thing we call a ‘calendar’ alone. Yet people
still blame the film for subliminally triggering his actions. How?
LOGIC POINT -
RELEASE DATE: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES had its world premiere on July 16, 2013 and
then a wide release in America on July 20, 2013 (the day of the shooting).
Holmes had been preparing for this long before that, scouting out the theater,
stockpiling weapons and body armor. He had also booby-trapped his apartment,
which shows that he had been planning the whole affair long in advance. He had
done various other actions prior (gun and armor purchases in May through July),
contacted a filmmaker about a film with a vigilante, gun-toting Batman…it’s all
out there for you to read and educate yourselves on instead of blindly
believing the conspiracy nuts out there like Alex Jones.
LOGIC = 1 /
NUTS = 0
Then there
comes the now infamous Sandy Hook link. For a brief moment during the preparations
Jim Gordon and his team are undertaking to stop Bane there is an “attack zone
map” that has an area labeled as ‘Sandy Hook’.
LOGIC POINT -
SANDY HOOK: Let’s see, apart from ‘Sandy Hook’ being the identifier of a
certain landmass formation, it’s also the name of several towns in America and
Canada:
- Sandy Hook, Connecticut
- Sandy Hook, Kentucky
- Sandy Hook, Maryland
- Sandy Hook, Mississippi
- Sandy Hook, Virginia
- Sandy Hook, Wisconsin
- Sandy Hook, Missouri
- Sandy Hook, Ontario
- Sandy Hook, District of Sechelt, British Columbia
If the Sandy
Hook map reference was going to trigger sleeper agents to start killing people,
why weren’t any of these other places attacked?
LOGIC=2 /
NUTS=0
Now video
games are coming under fire once again. An ever popular attack dummy for the
masses, and yet here’s where logic destroys their basis that video games are
training our youth to become killing machines.
LOGIC POINT -
PHYSICS: 1st person shooters and series like GRAND THEFT AUTO do use
guns as part of their arsenals available to the players, this is something that
is fact. These games also implement repercussions on the players’ actions (AI
retaliations, police actions, etc) so these types of games do show the player
that there is always a moral and legal downside to going on a rampage. These
games also don’t do what they are readily accused of: they operate under a
vacuum, not real-world physics. A real gun has recoil, something that a
controller or a mouse doesn’t come with or emulate in a realistic manner. Things
like wind, gravity, the curvature of the earth, also affect the trajectory of a
bullet. Bullets in a video game fly straight without any hindrance whatsoever
(aside from objects in the player’s path, but even then sometimes the code
breaks and bullets fly through walls). Games are not training grounds for
killers.
LOGIC=3 /
NUTS=0
All of these
things are the byproduct of another attack on the entertainment industry that
dates back DECADES: the subliminal attack by the artists themselves.
LOGIC
POINT-MATH: In 1985 a teenager killed himself and Ozzy Osbourne’s song ‘SUICIDE
SOLUTION’ was blamed (a song about alchohol being much more preferable than
offing yourself). Also in 1985 two men killed themselves because Judas Priest supposedly
told them too in the song ‘BETTER BY YOU, BETTER THAN ME’. Now, I’m no math
wizard but if either of these two cases had any basis in reality, then that
would make ZERO business sense. Artists rely on the public to buy their stuff.
If one person picks up an album for $10, likes it and then tells two of their
friends about it, those two go out and by the album ($30 already). Those two
tell two people each, that’s $70 sold, and the numbers increase geometrically
from there. To kill of any one of those sales leads to massive financial loss
down the road.
LOGIC=4 /
NUTS=0
To blame
anything in the entertainment industry on the incomprehensible actions of the
few is, well, inconceivable. One has to look at the person, their actions
leading up to it, their home life, their mental health, etc. Numerous factors have
to be taken into account, and accountability has to be taken for actions and
inactions leading up to the event. Parents no longer care about their child’s activities
and take practically no interest in becoming a part of their lives. Parents,
when faced with the media notice on their child’s actions, realize how
out-of-touch they were with their own and look around to see what they can
deflect the attention towards. So, inevitably, they walk into their kids’ rooms
and start the finger pointing. The same goes when adults do something stupid,
the media points to what they were in to or the conspiracy nuts come out and
look at anything, whether the person was into it or not, and point the finger.
Mental health
is a serious matter and pointing the finger in the wrong direction doesn’t fix
a fucking thing. Gun control isn’t the answer either. If someone wants to do
something bad enough, and he or she doesn’t have access to one ‘toy’, you can
best believe they’ll find something bigger and far worse to carry out their
plans. Does the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma ring a bell?
Quit pointing
fingers and blaming movies, games and music and start HELPING people that you
see suffering. Logic is dying, yes, but it still wins and you still lose.
