Shark Week is back, amid new controversy. Last year it was a fabricated Megalodon documentary. This year it's a fake Jaws-esq great white.
In Ferguson, riots and tear gas are the order of the day in the wake of the Michael Brown shooting. Journalists are being arrested for reporting it.
Robin Williams hung himself. His daughter was harassed by trolls online with photo shopped images of the death.
People are asking what happened to our world. Others say it's always been like this, and these are the latest blips on the radar.
I don't want to say things are terrible and they're going to always be terrible. Things do get better. Crime rates are dropping, and have been for some time. Civil rights march on (slowly, but surely). Activism is working. Decrying the wrongs does get us somewhere.
But like Shark Week, the bad will return. People will get shot. Mental health will effect lives. The media will ignore the real problems and tell us that Discovery Channel is a bunch of dicks for fooling us with shark and Mermaid documentaries.
Bad things will happen. But we don't have to pretend it's new.
In Ferguson, riots and tear gas are the order of the day in the wake of the Michael Brown shooting. Journalists are being arrested for reporting it.
Robin Williams hung himself. His daughter was harassed by trolls online with photo shopped images of the death.
People are asking what happened to our world. Others say it's always been like this, and these are the latest blips on the radar.
I don't want to say things are terrible and they're going to always be terrible. Things do get better. Crime rates are dropping, and have been for some time. Civil rights march on (slowly, but surely). Activism is working. Decrying the wrongs does get us somewhere.
But like Shark Week, the bad will return. People will get shot. Mental health will effect lives. The media will ignore the real problems and tell us that Discovery Channel is a bunch of dicks for fooling us with shark and Mermaid documentaries.
Bad things will happen. But we don't have to pretend it's new.
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