We don't shed tears over dealers or gang bangers who get shot, we accept it as part of the lifestyle. I don't find any fault with this myself. It's a fundamental understanding of risk vs reward; live by the sword, die by the sword kind of mentality. In the United States, in particular, there is even glee shed over home intruders meeting a decisive end from the mouth of a shotgun. There are numerous examples of areas where death is not only tolerated but, in fact, celebrated unabashedly by our culture. The death of Osama Bin Ladin brought some folks out into the streets waving flags. At this time, I was studying at my university, and I, too, walked out of my dorm to join the crowd of beer-shotgunning, flag-wearing, god-fearing, hell-raising contemporaries. I know there were many who disagreed with this sort of behavior; one of my best friends at the time showed concern for the general lack of empathy and pointed out that it is never ok to celebrate a person's death. I can't remember exactly what their reaction had been two years prior when we had seen Inglorious Bastards together, but I do remember some laughter at seeing certain characters depicting Nazis getting their skulls smashed to bits. It's not that I think it's necessarily good or bad to celebrate death, but that, as a species, we naturally all do it to some degree. Whether it be the death of mass murders, vile historical figures, or even caricatures of evil created from fiction to serve us up a plate of justified violence on our TV screen, we all celebrate death in some way.
I think it's important to break something down, that at every moment of The CEO's life, there was not only a way out but also an opportunity to make the world a better place. We all make choices, but I actually find it far easier to find empathy for a kid who joins a gang and commits violence because he fully believes there is no better way to escape the shit he was born into. I find it easier to understand how people fearing for their own lives or the lives of their families commit horrible acts in the name of a dictator. Brian knew what was happening. He was not starving or destitute. He was not under any threat from a nation, king, or government to make the decisions he made. He made his decisions knowing that it would lead to mass deaths of his own fellow citizens. He decided to live like a gangster, and he died like a common thug. I won't lie to you; I refuse to add some explanation, some back paddling, some cover-my-own-ass lecture on how murder is wrong. I'm glad he's dead, and unless by some chance you have really bought into the gaslighting enacted by those on both sides of the media, you probably are too.
But you probably haven't bought into that bullshit. it's so late in the game now, and we have arrived at a point when it seems that no matter what the talking heads say to the American people, the collective unspoken vibe that reverberates in return is simply, "Just shut the fuck up already." There is no longer a need for an intelligent response because intelligent discord has been weaponized against the American people along with our empathy. Why fix the problems or look at the world with an ounce of honesty when we could debate about it indefinitely? Well, no more, and I couldn't be happier that we have collectively arrived here, exhausted as we may be.
I lament the fact that we don't have writers with us today like Hunter S. Thompson, who once said about Richard Nixon's death, "If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."
Harsh, yes. Serious and should be taken literally, probably not. However, it is most certainly a perfect example of freedom of expression, and while it may not be in vogue today to print words like this, I ask you, have things gotten much better since then?
In lieu of the lack of harsh and dramatic words being distributed, I offer my own to the mouthpieces, utilizing their false compassion and dark money-funded platforms to attempt to redivide this nation back down the party lines. Those like the chode shaped pinhead Ben Shapiro and wannabe lumberjack-cosplaying Matt Walsh, who attempt to talk down to the very people who have followed their bullshit rhetoric. These parasitic shills have been lapping up the spunk distributed by their master for far too long for us as a nation to take anything seriously that comes from their tainted mouths. The nation would be far better off if their heads were to be placed in a large sack and hung from the tail hitch of a monster truck like a pair of truck nuts at a rodeo event. This way, the world could see them as they truly are, an old dirty, useless ball sack dipped in shit.
Am I serious? No. Were my feelings conveyed? Almost, but I think I can do better next time, but maybe I won't have to. We are all so painfully aware at this point that one can sell their soul nearly in the literal sense for cash. It isn't exciting, new, challenging, or remotely interesting because we all know that the lower you are willing to go, the more quick and easy money you are capable of making. Is there no one with power who is actually interested in seeing what we can really achieve as a species? Is it so hard to imagine what greatness you could accomplish even without some kind of monetary reward? I, however, struggle to imagine that the act of attaining cash to simply buy more shit that you don't need has to have the same impact as leaving a legacy that changes the structure of the world we live in for the better. Jesus, you pussy-ass unimaginative billionaire CEO soulless losers must be bored as shit, but hopefully, this moment of history serves as a turning point. In fact, if there is anything you take away from all of what has transpired, it is that maybe no more blood must be shed to save our nation from the doomed path it is currently speed-running down. Perhaps if you actually have any true empathy for Brian, his death can serve as the beautiful singularity of when our nation finally had to face itself. If you are concerned that this man died needlessly, then please don't let the next steps we take as a nation make his death just a senseless murder.
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