Norway Terror and Amy Winehouse death.
This has been a bit of a weekend of news! I thought i’d jump in with my thoughts just to write something to be honest. I might start doing some regular posts on recent events without trying to get too involved.
My views on the Norway Attack
The thing that hit me and most of the world was that we all immediately jumped on the ‘al-Qaeda musta dunnit‘ band wagon. But as it turns out it had nothing to do with that group and everything to do with a lone (current evidence) mental right wing farmer who himself was a Norwegian. I found this quite refreshing purely in a resetting the balance of perspective. I dont mean refreshing as ‘oh thats a good bit of news‘ i mean as in taking for what it is and learning from it.
We can learn from this that we’v got our selves into spin about the dangers of the world. It is once again clear that they do not always come from evil organised brown faced bearded turban toting dudes in far away lands and could just as easily come from the person next door, The one we sign packages for or look after their cat when they are away. Plus! they might do it for reasons purely of their own, not part of any big plan or agenda of others.
Everyone has the ability to be a Anders Behring Breivik and to mastermind something like that and kill a lot of people. This is like the social version of a freak natural disaster and there isn’t much you can ever do about it and still have freedom.
Flip that on its head though and if one person has it in them to create that much terror and destruction they just think how much good just one person could do if they put the same effort and passion into something positive.
Amy Winehouse death
I can’t help but feel not much for Amy Winehouse dieing, I just don’t get the relationship people seem to have with musicians. I can understand how a musician’s music can effect or even change your life, but that does not create a personal relationship with them. You don’t ‘know’ them and that song or music that had an effect on you was your own interpretation of their work, they wrote it based on their own situation or feelings not yours.
Even if i am a fan of a public figure and they die then i feel sad thats the last of the ‘stuff’ they’ll produce, be it comedy, music or anything. Plus because i’m aware of their death i’ll naturally feel something for their family etc… but i’d feel that same way if i was aware of ‘anyones’ death its just what separates you as civilised from a freak. Past that? nothing, i didn’t know them personally.
Maybe its different for other people and they do feel some emotional connection, who am I to tell people what to feel. Thats not me though, i don’t work that way so don’t get it.
On what she died of, its pretty much gonna be drugs right?! For that I have absolutely no pity for her, I see junkies the same way I see most choices people make, a choice. We all make choices everyday and make them sometimes with all the facts and sometimes not. You can be ignorant to the effects of drugs or know them full well and still dive into it. Fact remains you made a choice, your own choice and you get to own it and its results.
