Didn't people die every day that you did whatever it was that you did before the day that you died? All while the uncomfortable truth emerged and whispered that you made no good goddamn difference, while the others stress to burnish into new time the lie that says that even that has got to stand good for something, even if, in truth, it was good for absolutely nothing.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Rebecca Sedwick, age 12 -- Bullied to Death
I read accounts of bad news all the time, but I can't seem to shake this one. You'd think that in a planned world children would not be among the most vile, hurtful segment of the population. Rebecca solved her predicament by jumping to her death. The bullying continued posthumously -- one of the bullies wrote this on her Facebook page: “yes I bullied Rebecca and she killed herself, but I don’t give a fuck.” There's a little secret that enlightened first-grade teachers keep to themselves: some children are just no damned good. I argue that these little monsters are even worse than that. Just ask Becky's family. Existentialism has a pretty face. She wears no makeup. She's confused. She's terrified. All the Gods and Goddesses wouldn't, didn't, couldn't intervene in this, the latest of innumerable human horrors. I think that if someone were to reason that this was "God's will," I'd lose all control. Insanity reigns hallowed within the cells of human ignorance.
