Why Not Blogging Is Not The Right Response
In the Great War (1914-18), over nine million people died. To remember them, those who have fallen in the Second World War, and others who have fallen in battle, an annual silence for two minutes is held on the eleventh day of the eleventh month; Rememberance Day.
I therefore find the inital campaign idea of the ‘One Day Blog Silence,’ where people will fall silent for twenty four hours to honour the thirty three victims of the Virginia Tech shootings to be both out of proportion and, quite frankly, wrong. Yes there is a huge personal tragedy here, but that’s life. That’s what it means to be human. I don’t see us stopping for thirty three people run over in a major city every day. Or (to go to the extreme scale) the hundreds of thousands of dead in Iraq.
Lori Summers once posted about a state of emotional correctness (and right now I think it was her, but can’t find the LJ post): the act of presenting what you think the world wants to see. And this smacks of it. It’s like holding a concert for world peace, or wearing one of those mass produced rubber bangles. It makes the person taking part feel good because they are doing something that tellls the world ‘look at me, I’m doing something.’
Stop this, please! Find a way to honour them through change, through making the world a better place. You do that by being vocal, by working out if anything was wrong and you fix it. While it’s very difficult to stop a single person breaking the law if they are really determined, maybe making high powered weapons easily available is not the wisest of things in the world.
The last thing you want to be is silent.
April 18, 2007; Daily Links;
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[...] Ewan is blogging his response to the proposed One Day of Blogging silence In the Great War (1914-18), over nine million people died. To remember them, those who have fallen in the Second World War, and others who have fallen in battle, an annual silence for two minutes is held on the eleventh day of the eleventh month; Rememberance Day. [...]
exactly!!!!!