{"id":42543,"date":"2016-06-15T22:06:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T02:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42543"},"modified":"2020-07-22T22:06:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T02:06:54","slug":"the-world-is-a-terrible-place-july-2016-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42543","title":{"rendered":"The world is a terrible place, July 2016 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s mornings like this that I dread.\u00a0 Where something tragic occurs in the world, and it\u2019s unfortunately the hot topic that the media is over.\u00a0 News, is inherently mostly bad, but it\u2019s times like when some psychopaths charge a runaway truck into a crowd<\/a> particularly peaks, further justifying the notion that terrorists are shitheads, religion is lethally divisive, there are some truly evil people in the world and the world is a shitty, shitty place sometimes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything becomes disgusting at times like this.\u00a0 Faith in people, the idea that there are networks of terrorists out there that seemingly will never come to justice because of the idea that they\u2019re secretly supplied by supposed allied forces in order for rich people to profit on the idea of war.\u00a0 Disgust in the media that can\u2019t stop running gruesome imagery in the name of journalism and throwing discretion and sensitivity to the wind.\u00a0 Disgust that among the dead, numbers of those belonging to particular nationalities emerge, as if it\u2019s more important that Americans, Canadians, Italians, or British people were killed amongst the French celebrating Bastille Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, it\u2019s all tiresome.\u00a0 It\u2019s tiresome the alarming number of incidents like such that the entire world hears about, where people are senselessly killed for absolutely senseless reasons.\u00a0 It\u2019s tiresome to read, listen or see the aftermaths of the same songs and dances, that have been uttered so many times over the span of the last year that they\u2019re completely losing meaning.\u00a0 Thoughts and prayers aren\u2019t fixing anything.\u00a0 When is love going to triumph over all this hate?<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s tiresome seeing the collateral effects of these incidents, like all the observations about how France gets all the solidarity and support of the world, while Istanbul is glazed over; or perhaps these fucking attacks are just happening with such frequency, that people just don\u2019t have time to console another before the next terrorist ambush occurs?<\/span><\/p>\n

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And terrorism is more tiresome than everything else.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even care why these terrorist organizations are doing the things they do, be it religion, objection to ideals, or they\u2019re just plain assholes on a frightening scale.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to ask why the world doesn\u2019t just band together and try to do something about it, but it\u2019s neigh impossible to stop what doesn\u2019t have a face. \u00a0Shit like this is inevitably going to happen again and again and again, and honestly, it doesn\u2019t feel like anything will, or can really be done about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

You take steps back and steps back, and try to get a look at bigger and bigger pictures.\u00a0 It\u2019s funny, because you think of the shit kids say, hippies used to say, or what beauty pageant contestants say, about how they want world peace.\u00a0 As nice of an idea as it sounds like, I can\u2019t believe for a second that it\u2019s even remotely possible. There are two popular narratives; one a little too succinct for modern times, and one that transcends time, and relates to basic storytelling: war is too profitable for it to disappear, and there\u2019s no good story without villains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The big picture of the current worldly landscape kind of proves that both are in full effect, and it\u2019s hard to imagine a world that\u2019s kind of at ease.\u00a0 Maybe I was just too young and ambivalent to have noticed, but it certainly seemed like the world was way more chill and peaceful-ish when Bill Clinton was in office.<\/span><\/p>\n

The world is an awful place, and we have the unfortunate reality of existing in it, in its current shitty, shitty iteration.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s mornings like this that I dread.\u00a0 Where something tragic occurs in the world, and it\u2019s unfortunately the hot topic that the media is over.\u00a0 News, is inherently mostly bad, but it\u2019s times like when some psychopaths charge a runaway truck into a crowd particularly peaks, further justifying the notion that terrorists are shitheads, religion … Continue reading The world is a terrible place, July 2016 edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,90,70,156,124],"class_list":["post-42543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-crime","tag-hypocrisy","tag-religion","tag-social-media","tag-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42544,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42543\/revisions\/42544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}