Yeah. It made me ill that the day after the VT shootings, six times that number of folks died in Baghdad and no one seemed to blink.
It’s that fatality fatigue thing. wrote about this the day of the VT shootings, what with having come from Iran as a kid and all….
It’s awful.
I certainly cannot say that I was immune to the VT event; I taught at a tech school for a year and the thought of one of my classes suddenly being all gone–it felt very solid and scary.
Fuck.
My only hope is that it wakes people up and maybe it will and maybe it won’t–but all these things are sad and terrible and I don’t even know the right thing to say anymore.
Sad, but true.
Yeah. It made me ill that the day after the VT shootings, six times that number of folks died in Baghdad and no one seemed to blink.
It’s that fatality fatigue thing. wrote about this the day of the VT shootings, what with having come from Iran as a kid and all….
It’s awful.
I certainly cannot say that I was immune to the VT event; I taught at a tech school for a year and the thought of one of my classes suddenly being all gone–it felt very solid and scary.
Fuck.
My only hope is that it wakes people up and maybe it will and maybe it won’t–but all these things are sad and terrible and I don’t even know the right thing to say anymore.
But the VT victims were all young people and…..
Oh.
Wait.