If you had told me before this week started that the North Koreans would threaten us with nuclear weapons and someone would mail Ricin to the president of the united states and a town in Texas would simply blow up with the power of a small nuclear bomb — and none of these would be the story we’re all talking about — I’d have laughed.
What this week has taught me is that CNN is incapable of covering any event that isn’t fully scripted. It’s sad how far that franchise has fallen.
This week has taught me that Fox News only has one script, and it’ll use it for every event, no matter what that event is.
This week has taught me that it’s time to stop laughing at Donald Trump and that we should just stop paying any attention to him instead.
This week has taught me that when elected officials like Senator Graham show such poor knowledge of the Constitution (or maybe just disrespect of it) maybe it’s time for us to band together and have them stop representing us and the document he’s sworn to uphold and protect. (Dear Senator Graham: the constitution isn’t there to only protect that which you are in favor of. Really)
This week taught me that the time of social media is really here, when my twitter feed was a lot more useful and accurate than the news sources that were being paid to report to me.
This week taught me that what people want is a simple answer easily explained quickly. And that real life isn’t like that. it’s complicated, and dirty, and it takes time for reality to play out and the answers to be known.
But mostly this week taught me to remember that bad things happen; a lot of them happened all at once this week. And they will happen next week, and again, and again, because that’s part of real life. And that you really can’t focus on the bad things, or it’ll tear you apart. But look inside the bad things, and you see dozens and hundreds of people doing good things, not because it makes the bad thing go away, but because that’s what they do. When bad things happen, we as a society rally together to minimize the pain and help those around us get life back to normal.
That’s what we should focus on. but good news doesn’t sell newspapers (well, nothing does, these days, but…) so the media tends to focus on what’s screwed up. Look past that a bit, and you see lots of ordinary people doing the extraordinary.
And that, to me, is the sanity point I found this week when for a while I was wondering if we as a species had finally lost it…
Happy Friday, all, if only because this freaking week is freaking over.