This site is to share music, video, communicate, not preach… but to share whatever might be on my mind on that day.  I care about the world.  I care about people.  I’m a thinker, probably an over-thinker at times, but studying people, body language, words chosen, media hypocrisy etc.  It’s what makes me a songwriter.  In any event, a thought for the day…

Knowing we’re all human and physically individual with different shapes and sizes, the result of a video capturing a hypothetical UFC fighter bullying and beating a young, scrawny male would evoke strong emotion in us.  We’re simple creatures.  We can clearly see the disadvantage of a 120 lb male vs. a 220 lb, all muscle fighter.  And if that scrawny young male happened to be gay, trans or queer, the results would be written.  The bully would be publicly doxxed, shamed, deplored, forced to apologize then seek counseling.  He’d lose his job wherever he worked and lawsuits would follow.

Yet, in this very same world of news, which really now means ‘shit we captured on video’…  if one man were to be of higher intelligence than another, it’s completely acceptable to call him a moron, shame him for his stupidity and publicly ridicule and humiliate him.

We can agree that nobody should be body-shamed or bullied, while we accept the relentless attack on someone who doesn’t see things the way we do, or is ‘slower’ than another.

I also see scores of memes featuring unknowing citizens, maybe in a Walmart or on the street, dressed in a way that might seem laughable to some, but reveals an out-of-step taste to society, maybe a poverty or drug addicted life, or possibly mental issues.  We laugh as though they’re not real, or as though they’ll never see it.

I sincerely hope we evolve from here.  Kids are growing up with serious challenges.  Anxiety, ADHD, OCD and 101 other disorders already named or unnamed.  Social media is not only a bathroom wall, but it’s become an integral part of our news cycle.  A news anchor sitting behind a desk reporting what someone else tweeted.  This is equivalent to stopping at a 76 station on highway 15 in Baker, California, reading lines written in a bathroom stall and claiming it reflects the town’s attitudes or somehow has some social significance.

Our world, witnessing almost everything in 2D from a television or computer screen has become a toxic and dangerous environment to live in.  A person filmed being rude to an employee is all it takes to go viral, the audience weighing in venemously, with no context as to what happened before the incident.  We’re monkeys flinging feces from the cheap seats.  Something’s gotta give before it breaks.