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The NEW Soylent Green
A Moses-like figure stands before the mic at an NRA convention and thunders, “I will give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.”
At the end of the sci-fi film Soylent Green, that same actor implores his detective boss to spread the news, “Soylent Green is people!”
In the movie, as the corpses pile up from an overcrowded, miserable earth, they are carted away in garbage trucks, secretly converted to Soylent Green, and fed back to the living. Soylent Green is better than the old Red and Yellow varieties, but it is scarce, so there are riots. A detective played by Charlton Heston discovers the deception. In a word, humanity has become cannibals, feeding upon itself, in a state-sanctioned system of cyclical violence.
Such is the world created by the NRA. It plays upon the irrational fears of a few to continue to thwart common sense gun legislation. Its largely successful lobbying over the years has distorted the original intention of the Second Amendment so much so that it has become almost impossible to pass laws more in keeping with the Founders’ intent.
When the bodies continue to pile up as a result of gun violence, and there is no legislative change primarily due to the lobbying of the NRA and the like, we are in every sense of the word disrespecting the dead and feeding upon ourselves.
In a state-sanctioned system of cyclical violence.
Like in Soylent Green.
And like the movie, the end result is not very pretty.
But go ahead. Watch the news.
Take another bite.
June 23, 2014
#2ndAmmendment #AmericanGunCulture #cannibalisticSociety #CharltonHeston #commonSenseGunLaws #cultureOfFear #cyclicalViolence #deathAndPolitics #Dystopia #Film #gunControl #GunViolence #legislativeParalysis #massShootings #moralOutrage #newsCommentary #NRA #politicalLobbying #propheticWriting #publicPolicy #Satire #SecondAmendment #socialCritique #socialDecay #SoylentGreen #stateSanctionedViolence #Violence #violenceInAmerica -
"The gesture towards divine power invokes an American taboo -- we are not to criticize anyone who invokes God, no matter how obviously hypocritical and self-serving, as in this case. The taboo, once summoned, prevents us from seeing the obvious, fundamental thing: a basic reason that we have government is to prevent us from becoming a society in which we simply shoot one another all the time."
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"The gesture towards divine power invokes an American taboo -- we are not to criticize anyone who invokes God, no matter how obviously hypocritical and self-serving, as in this case. The taboo, once summoned, prevents us from seeing the obvious, fundamental thing: a basic reason that we have government is to prevent us from becoming a society in which we simply shoot one another all the time."
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"The gesture towards divine power invokes an American taboo -- we are not to criticize anyone who invokes God, no matter how obviously hypocritical and self-serving, as in this case. The taboo, once summoned, prevents us from seeing the obvious, fundamental thing: a basic reason that we have government is to prevent us from becoming a society in which we simply shoot one another all the time."
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"The gesture towards divine power invokes an American taboo -- we are not to criticize anyone who invokes God, no matter how obviously hypocritical and self-serving, as in this case. The taboo, once summoned, prevents us from seeing the obvious, fundamental thing: a basic reason that we have government is to prevent us from becoming a society in which we simply shoot one another all the time."
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"The gesture towards divine power invokes an American taboo -- we are not to criticize anyone who invokes God, no matter how obviously hypocritical and self-serving, as in this case. The taboo, once summoned, prevents us from seeing the obvious, fundamental thing: a basic reason that we have government is to prevent us from becoming a society in which we simply shoot one another all the time."
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"The notion that all elected officials have are their thoughts and prayers, regardless of by whom it is uttered, is a direct attack on the purpose of government itself. It is not a response to the anarchy of gun violence. It is a normalization of it and one of the preconditions to its repetition and spread."
~ Timothy Snyder
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"The notion that all elected officials have are their thoughts and prayers, regardless of by whom it is uttered, is a direct attack on the purpose of government itself. It is not a response to the anarchy of gun violence. It is a normalization of it and one of the preconditions to its repetition and spread."
~ Timothy Snyder
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"The notion that all elected officials have are their thoughts and prayers, regardless of by whom it is uttered, is a direct attack on the purpose of government itself. It is not a response to the anarchy of gun violence. It is a normalization of it and one of the preconditions to its repetition and spread."
~ Timothy Snyder
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"The notion that all elected officials have are their thoughts and prayers, regardless of by whom it is uttered, is a direct attack on the purpose of government itself. It is not a response to the anarchy of gun violence. It is a normalization of it and one of the preconditions to its repetition and spread."
~ Timothy Snyder
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"The notion that all elected officials have are their thoughts and prayers, regardless of by whom it is uttered, is a direct attack on the purpose of government itself. It is not a response to the anarchy of gun violence. It is a normalization of it and one of the preconditions to its repetition and spread."
~ Timothy Snyder
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"Thoughts and prayers. The laziest phrase in the American lexicon. It costs nothing. It risks nothing. And it changes absolutely nothing."
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"Thoughts and prayers. The laziest phrase in the American lexicon. It costs nothing. It risks nothing. And it changes absolutely nothing."
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"Thoughts and prayers. The laziest phrase in the American lexicon. It costs nothing. It risks nothing. And it changes absolutely nothing."
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"Thoughts and prayers. The laziest phrase in the American lexicon. It costs nothing. It risks nothing. And it changes absolutely nothing."
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"Thoughts and prayers. The laziest phrase in the American lexicon. It costs nothing. It risks nothing. And it changes absolutely nothing."
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"Thoughts and prayers for the students senselessly murdered at Brown University. Thoughts and prayers for Jewish families in Australia who gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah, only to watch Day Two transform into a memorial after antisemitic violence shattered what should have been joy."
~ Michael Cohen
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
/2https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-politics-of-hollow-platitudes
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"Thoughts and prayers for the students senselessly murdered at Brown University. Thoughts and prayers for Jewish families in Australia who gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah, only to watch Day Two transform into a memorial after antisemitic violence shattered what should have been joy."
~ Michael Cohen
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
/2https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-politics-of-hollow-platitudes
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"Thoughts and prayers for the students senselessly murdered at Brown University. Thoughts and prayers for Jewish families in Australia who gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah, only to watch Day Two transform into a memorial after antisemitic violence shattered what should have been joy."
~ Michael Cohen
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
/2https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-politics-of-hollow-platitudes
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"Thoughts and prayers for the students senselessly murdered at Brown University. Thoughts and prayers for Jewish families in Australia who gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah, only to watch Day Two transform into a memorial after antisemitic violence shattered what should have been joy."
~ Michael Cohen
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
/2https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-politics-of-hollow-platitudes
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"Thoughts and prayers for the students senselessly murdered at Brown University. Thoughts and prayers for Jewish families in Australia who gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah, only to watch Day Two transform into a memorial after antisemitic violence shattered what should have been joy."
~ Michael Cohen
#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
/2https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-politics-of-hollow-platitudes
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be better than me... don't waste time on replying to #gunNuts, they have CHOSEN what version of reality they wish to live in. use that energy to call your congressperson and demand #gunControl instead 😁
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRwkPeXn/
https://youtube.com/shorts/11zbkXfc7uk?feature=share
#gunViolence #massShootings #gun #Republican #trump #conservative #rightwing #liberal #progressive #leftist #leftwing #democrat #politics #prolife #saveourkids #cult #indoctrination #nra #secondamendment #2ndammendment #gunRights
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The amount of #MassShootings during and after the #AssaultWeaponsBan
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Better than nothing? We should demand more...
It was recently brought to my attention that Utah has a policy in place to arm teachers. Below is an interesting article outlining the pros and cons of that policy.
"There is no perfect solution but it is undeniable that change must happen. We cannot continue to have our children killed in schools through mass shootings. Perhaps arming teachers is better than nothing, but should we do more? I believe that the family, friends and community of the 19 children and two teachers killed in Texas last week would argue yes."I don't have the answers but I do know that our leaders have been failing us. The current hodge podge of state laws does little to address the crisis. All suggestions should be on the table and not denied for the same old arguments we have been hearing for decades. For the record, I am NOT in favor of arming teachers.
https://utahpolicy.com/politics/63936-guest-opinion-is-training-teachers-to-shoot-the-answer-for-mass-school-shootings#EnoughIsEnough #EndGunViolence #SaveOurChildren
#MassShootings
#armingTeachers