Last night after i just watched The New York Jets plunge themselves one step close to a super bowl title, a 60 minutes exclusive was set to air about the recent Arizona shootings. Naturally being one who likes information i decided to give it a watch. Well what i found was that the bias of 60 Minutes and the attitude in which they convey their show is part of everything that is wrong with this country. They brought in CIA analysts and tried to make the whole thing seem so dramatic when in fact the situation has a simple explanation. I am not saying by any means that the shootings were morally just, but i do agree with Jared's takes on the United States government. The only thing i can compare what Jared felt to is an act of rape. The helplessness that no matter what you do the inevitable is going to happen, you are trapped and solitary in the moment. Jared had the realization that most of us today are to "brain washed" to see, society is crumbling and becoming one big social norm that is pounded into our brains by means of the media and government. Now, that feeling that no matter what you do, you in fact are not free and are controlled by an outer means caused Jared to ultimately snap. Mental health did play a role in his descent into a crazed mind, but his ideals about this country were in fact not as 60 minutes described.. as "crazy." Mental health, was 60 minutes biggest exploit on the tragedy, how crazy Jared was and how assassins minds think. But what they fail to mention or even focus on is, what did people do to prevent this? Expelling him from school did not good, but to anger him more and did the school even try to get him help? no, they sat back and felt content with themselves for solely expelling him. Now, as far as getting him help well i am not sure that would of helped anyway. The mental health system in this country is so flawed that the people who are mostly just troubled, and need someone to talk to are told they are "depressed" and are given these little wonderful pills some of which being Prozac and Effexor which in fact worsen peoples conditions instead of helping them. We have no means of how to measure serotonin in the brain yet, companies claim to have found the right formula for you to feel "happy" once again. The problem with this country today, is that everybody is trying to make a buck and does not care what the consequences are of that. Well guess what people, we as a society are creating people like Jared, by isolating them and putting labels on them and for what? Just because they have different ideas than the social norm does not mean they are "evil" or different, they are solely real and true people and have mind power that the common person can not access. A true soul, and a mind so vivid cannot be hindered, but it can be twisted and destroyed. That is the goal of society, you are unique, you are not the status quo so, you my friend are my enemy. We have seen it all throughout our history especially during the 60's and 70's and still the battle for "free minds" is at hand. I know you must think i am crazy for taking something so small and blowing it up into this, but look at it more closely and then tell me i am not right. Individualism is almost non existent in this country these days and is frowned upon by "the man" so you tell me, what must be done, because things are only getting worse.
“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement."
- John F. Kennedy
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