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[unbibium]

just tell me what i'm allowed to think now

because if our society is going to turn itself inside out on the whim of a maniac, maybe it's time for me to go away.

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[vyus.livejournal.com]

this will pass in 2 weeks, maybe 3 if the tv wonks that peck off the corpse of the story can get ratings for that longer.

none of that stuff matters, no one cares in the long term.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen society turning itself inside out, I've seen a lot of women using recent events as an illustrative example to talk about stuff they already have to deal with every day. (And perhaps making the point that, since this particular dude killed some young men as well, the risk from obsessive misogyny is not just to them.)

That they might have something to fear is not news to them, nor are lonely single guys the sole source of danger. So if you're not considered a danger now, I wouldn't worry too much about the situation changing. But I think it's been worth listening to.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Do you feel that there's something wrong with what you think?

[lautreamontg.livejournal.com]

Oh, fuck society.
I don't mean that in the Elliot Rogers way, of course not. I mean I reject it's petty concerns, it's interjections into how I should live or why I should live, it's neurotic scab picking and navel gazing, it's stupid tribal concerns dressed up in the fineries of ideology, it's obsession with utterly asinine tripe of every stripe. Do what you feel like doing, feel like how you want to feel, and fuck all what they think or say. They're not you and not responsible for you.

Besides, overall, the world is more or less turning your way, despite little hiccups like this. You're not an adherent of beliefs that polite society finds despicable, like myself. Heck, you even get out about five times more than I do. In the past year, I've attended all of one non-family social function (the company Christmas Party) and gone on two dates, one of which ditched me midway through. Do I care? Eh, sometimes when the melatonin is low, but otherwise I got a shit ton of other projects to keep my interest.