Jaden wrote:
I'll get flamed for saying this, but it's eating away at me.
Dimebag was just a guy. I suppose he was a pretty cool guy, but he was no Mother Teresa. He was a good guitarist who player in a couple mediocre bands. He died, and it's sad, but come on. Look at the Tsunami, wiping out hundreds of thousands of people. I think that's a little more important than Dimebag. I mean, who actually listens Damage Plan? It sucks when someone dies (unless they deserved it, which he did not), but this whole thing was blown out of preportion, and I think we can drop it already. I just get annoyed when tragic events get blown out of preportion (like 9/11; the media dragged that on for like two years).
Gonna have to agree with you here... actually the media here in the States are still dragging out 9/11, though less so after the tsunami.
After all, it would look pretty stupid, since 9/11 is completely dwarfed by the magnitude of the tsunami...
Or the Dresden air raids or the Tet offensive, or Hiroshima/Nagasaki. or Gulf War I & II (depleted uranium, anyone?)... all these operations were indiscrimanately and delibarately employed to instill terror on the civilian poulation.
Lets face it, the American government has caused way more destruction than al-Qaeda or whatever could ever dream of inflicting.
But, I digress... Dimebags death was tragic, but lets keep it in perspective. American culture is steeped in violence and guns; this is merely symptomatic of a larger problem that will likely never be resolved, indeed, it will most likely worsen; the more acts of violence one witnesses, the more numbed to it one becomes; I always found it rather bizzarre that in America, it is alright for children to see movies or play video games which graphically depict death and murder, yet a bare breast or ass is forbidden, a complete taboo.
What does that tell you about our collective values?
V.
