The Zimmerman / Martin Trial
What to say about this trial ?
The honesty behind it is, today is a new day. A boy is still dead, and another man walks free. Nothing is changing those facts. This, is reality.
However that's not the greatest tragedy in all of this.
The sadder reality is, as soon as the last microphone is packed away, and the last satellite is dissembled, and the last news van drives off into the sunset, we, Americans, will forget about this, and as the days pass, only in Trivial Pursuit, or possibly documentaries on the Lifetime channel will we ever remember the names Travon Martin or George Zimmerman, or anything regarding this case, ever again.
At best, they may be the answer to some Jeopardy question one day. Sad, but still true. Today, we are less than 1 day removed from the verdict, and our collective memories have already begun to decay on this subject, and will continue to perpetually do so. In time, we will no longer remember the names George Zimmerman and Travon Martin.
Why does this happen ? It happens because we are a country comprised of chronic A.D.D-afflicted people - maybe more like self-inflicted, if we're checking for accuracy here...
So now that the trial is over, what do we do now ? What do we have to talk about ? Don't worry my countrymen, for as long as the sun rises, and there's at least on Kardashian doing something, somewhere, Americans will still have meaning in their lives, and somehow, find a will to persevere and push on with their tragic lives.
If you really care to see how deep this line of thinking, this "rabbit hole" goes, consider this - as time applies it's healing to these collective wounds we face, you can apply this same kind of mentality to ANY subject we face in this country. Yes, that's right, I said you can apply this apathetic type mentality to anything that is facing us.
So what does this all mean? It means that tomorrow, no one is going to ever care, and nothing, nothing meaningful, tangible, or relevant will ever get accomplished regarding this subject ever again.. No names will be remembered in the memory of history.
We only care about bouncing from topic to topic, pretending to care about whatever subject de-joure it is at the time to somehow convince ourselves that for that fleeting moment (as the news cameras are rolling) that we truly DO care, and have all along, even though when we turn the lights off and are alone at night, that we know all of that is complete bullshit. We only care about immediate things that keep our worlds spinning by any means necessary.
The sooner a person realizes this, the sooner their own minds get freed from "The Matrix"That is why I elected, of my own free will and choosing, not to choose (and as the song goes, "You still have made a choice")
I've decided the only thing I wish to do in this life is to love my family with all my existence, and to love my Savior Jesus Christ the same way. Nothing else matters. I consider this to be a good life, with meaning.
Everything else in this world changes, and everything else is subjected to the same atrophic apathy that IS DESTROYING Humanity, and Civilization as we know it.
Apathy is the Devil, and it's here, and walking among us.
-J
