I watched a film last night called Zodiac. It was about a serial killer from the late 60s/70s. He killed less than a dozen people but was the subject of endless press coverage back then and had a movie made about who he may or may not have been very recently.
Moat. Killed a few people. A nation shocked. Jack The Ripper, Myra Hindley... insert the name of any serial killer you care to mention and the whole world is shocked.
Yet we talk about mass murder in terms that are almost passive. World War I and 2. That's the 'acceptable' face of murder. You have a uniform and a gun and the express permission of some cowardly fat f*ck in government to kill as many people as you can possibly manage in the name of gaining a bit of land or forcing your religious beliefs on others or just because they pissed you off and you wanted to get even.
Murder. If we're so shocked at a few people getting killed by some loon here and there while our governments and others kill hundreds of thousands 'just because' do we even know what the word f*cking means?
Moat. Killed a few people. A nation shocked. Jack The Ripper, Myra Hindley... insert the name of any serial killer you care to mention and the whole world is shocked.
Yet we talk about mass murder in terms that are almost passive. World War I and 2. That's the 'acceptable' face of murder. You have a uniform and a gun and the express permission of some cowardly fat f*ck in government to kill as many people as you can possibly manage in the name of gaining a bit of land or forcing your religious beliefs on others or just because they pissed you off and you wanted to get even.
Murder. If we're so shocked at a few people getting killed by some loon here and there while our governments and others kill hundreds of thousands 'just because' do we even know what the word f*cking means?