Wednesday, January 7, 2009

And for what?...

So, I'll make this post short and sweet.

Despite my fellow K,D colleagues persistence for trying to show you a point of view, allow me to be the poison in the human machine. Granted, I have an opinion on the following story, but unfortunately I don't wish to share it. I would rather let you draw your own conclusions. This marsh of human in/sanity comes all the way from the Ukraine. It involves three nineteen year old males who did something ghastly and got away with it for longer than they should have. Surely you have heard of the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs? If you haven't, I am not surprised. As Erasmus has pointed out earlier, there are a great many travesties that go unheard of in this world.

What interests me about this macabre subject is not the details, but the sloth like media interest in such an event. Outside of the Ukraine, this story was nonexistent up until Boingboing.net decided to run a small article about it. Even when it was first posted, the contributor of the article was unsure that young men could do something so monstrous. Up until this was posted, the first worldwide ruminations of this deed where witnessed, not by the Associated Press or the BBC, but by a group of nihilistic Internet troglodytes on Encyclopedia Dramatica who, after having being desensitized by web gore, proceeded to forward the link to many other troll-like browsers. The only reaction that they had, was to treat it with ridicule and indifference. How unfortunate it is, that the media has only had one of those reactions...

Alright, I promise my posts will be a smidge less horrifying from now on.

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