Thanks Lurshy,
Thanks, this gave me the penciled in drop the mic moment that may or may not be in my future.
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Unrelated, well kinda: a Dr told me today that 94% of violent crime could not be directly attributed to severe mental illness. Now, depending on how we define "severe" that could be illustrative of the fraction or not. Severe mental illness certainly does not mean foaming at the mouth with a thirst for blood or anything worse than that. It also doesn't mean that you're nuts if you ever had a violent thought, cue Orwell.
Let's assume that the smart guys and girls that came up with these statistics had their heads on somewhat straight for the moment. Now compare that fraction, to the fraction of the population that is estimated to suffer from severe mental illness x times in their lives. For me? I lost count over the years. For others? Maybe it's more and maybe it's less, I don't know because I've rarely done group therapy with other mentally ill people in my lifetime. I honestly don't know the fraction of the population that is mentally ill so I'll end in a question mark?
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even more unrelated, I guess: I was watching the news with a friend a few years ago and I said, "I used to like channel 7 because the ladies are my age, but then I realized that I didn't like seeing all the bad stuff that they seem to focus on at channel 7." To which he replied, "their motto on channel 7 is "If it bleeds, it leads."" Kinda sums it up.
Is it an American obsession with terrible atrocious disgusting news or does the media control what we're "supposed" to know, or both, or is it a big money making tv ratings scam to make us hate those that don't share our belief system? I can't pick. Seems like these things are all true. For example, I wonder if anyone from the west coast heard about the guy that was wanted in connection with a local atrocity a few years ago in Brockton. Yeah he took a last second flight to Venezuela or some **** where they don't cooperate with us. Dude got away with some gross stuff but he's probably not on your radar because of all those things listed above.
I can see this all happening, while only watching tv very rarely. I feel like the world needs more Jackie Moon:
nsfw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nXJe9i70DE