There is a hue and cry among the populace that the media shouldn't have run the pictures of Cho Seung-Hui pointing a gun at the viewers. That it shouldn't have printed pictures of bloodied students being carried out of the dorm.
No...no, no, no, no. We need this stuff shoved in our faces.
The day after it happened I was going to post on this blog that I applauded the Metro for running the picture of the bloodied student. (I didn't because my job is causing me to shut down...lock down into my own selfish world...and I hate it, hate that I'm becoming once again some apathetic, self-absorbed office worker.) Finally, we're just starting to see the real effects of violence. And the image of Cho pointing his weapon of choice into the camera...someone wrote into the Metro that it disturbed her so much she had to cover the picture to read the story.
Good. Damnit...we should be disturbed. We're too sheltered. We can't see images of the carnage that goes on in wars around the globe...we're not allowed...the public is squeamish...it's all so anesthetized.
Yeah, it's ugly and frightening and horrible to look at. But it's the world. It goes on all around us...and if we started to see the blood and carnage maybe we all won't just sit around on our fat asses and we'll start doing something about the killings that go on in the urban (folks, that's the sanitized word for "black") neighborhoods. We'll start to use our voices in the way we vote against our government's warlike foreign policy.
But no...we'd rather just ignore it all...ignore all the ugliness...
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