Thursday, March 27, 2008

Vernon God Little Meaning/Connection

Although after reading Vernon God Little, and understanding DBC Pierre's intent of viewing America and the media with different points of view, I thought that it was even more interesting when it made me think about how humans naturally tend to want someone or something to blame for anything and everything that goes wrong. At first, it seems like an unimportant topic, but after I thought about it for a while, maybe that is because we are so used to it happening. I mean, when was the last time you can remember something bad happening, and you simply saying, "Shit happens," (pardon my french) instead of thinking and talking and thinking about who did what and what caused who to want to do what... you get the point. After that thought came to my mind, my first reaction was, well, don't you have to figure out what happened in order to insure justice and catch the person or thing that caused the wrongdoing? But after thinking about it, I came to the conclusion that humans simply like knowing that something or somebody is being punished and when they know that, they feel like the situation is being taken care of and justice is being served. In other words, if someone is being punished or something being blamed for something bad happening, most people will pay very little attention to whether or not the person or idea should be persecuted because they just want justice as quickly and conveniently as possible. Maybe, just maybe, sometimes we should just accept that things don't always go the way we want them to and thats just life, instead of finding something or someone to lay the blame on to make ourselves feel better.

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