Some comedy blog this is turning out to be, eh? National tragedies have a way of fucking up our plans sometimes.
Instead of producing comics as I'd initially planned, my friends and I have been developing a cartoon. Unfortunately, we're still in the writing stage, so I have little to post here in the way of humor, again. Haven't been in a very funny mood as of late.
Just a few points of clarification:
1) In case you were wondering about the landslide of links in my last post, that was my method of backing up my points. Hypertext is the internet's alternative to citations, because as we all know, citations suck. If only people on TV bothered to name their sources as well, maybe they'd actually make cogent arguments from time to time. Haha! Okay, okay, but seriously.
2) Regarding the URL of this blog, I'm not thrilled about it, but all the good ones were taken! At least "RIP reverie" kind of rhymes.
3) It seems that I forgot something when I wrote my last post. The Columbine shooting, that was Marilyn Manson's fault; Virginia Tech was due to violent video games; but it is utterly wrong of me to blame conservatives even a little for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and a baker's dozen of other folks.
In case it wasn't clear last time: I blame all of us Americans for allowing our country to become overrun with psychosis. We let yellow journalism become the norm, and we stopped thinking for ourselves. We ignore our country's real problems and care more about voting for American Idol than for actual state representatives. By neglecting our political process, we've let it flood with venom. I would argue that fostering insanity makes the crazy people in a country even crazier.
Yes, Loughner is a nutjob, and either he or, depending on how you look at it, his affliction is directly to blame for his actions. Of course, someone gave this nutjob a gun... Nevertheless I still feel an inexplicable personal guilt over this shooting, and maybe that doesn't make any sense; but if I'm going to blame myself, I'm also going to blame those who devote their lives to throwing lit matches at powder kegs, and I will never apologize for accurately reporting my own feelings and perception of the truth.
So, do you think that last post was in poor taste? Was it hypocritical? Vitriolic, maybe insensitive and overly aggressive? Maybe it was. First Amendment, motherfucker. That's how I felt, that's how I wrote. And since conservatives seldom hesitate to blame rock and metal music, homosexuality, liberalism, "muslin," socialism, and video games for our country's problems, I don't see anything wrong with my blaming them back once in a while.
4) I also implied at the end of the last post that the American dream was dead. Well, that's what happens when you wake up: your dreams die and you face reality. We've spent enough time dreaming. It's time to deal with the American reality.
5) Lastly, so as to remind you all that this blog is supposedly funny sometimes: [insert your favorite flatulence joke.]
