The Middle Distance

Oh my gods. Genocide is a fact of the world, kid! Doesn't NEED to be, but it fucking IS. Learn about it, so that you can fight against it! My gods.

As I wrote above to SV, I really have seen parents get investigated by DCFS for the littlest things, thanks to other people trying to protect children that aren't even THEIRS. All well and good if the kid is being abused, but a bump on the head or a scratch on the knee ought not to raise the alarms in the ER. And it fucking does, regularly.

Innocence and ignorance is a loooong rant. Myself... I lived in purposeful and deliberate ignorance of damned near everything I could, for as long as I could, because my innocence had been shredded at a rather early age. I couldn't cope with it so I shut down. I would remain "innocent" damn it, no matter how many things I had to pretend didn't exist. I can remember literally plugging my ears and walking away when people were discussing sex, and I was in my 20's. Holy fucking hell.

When it comes to death... the only thing that bothers me is seeing the corpses. And it should bother anyone other than a mortician. Heaps of bodies in the Holocaust is tragic and heart-wrenching, and it SHOULD BE. We should learn from it. Pity there are places that haven't, and people who still deny it. Sad, fucked up people.

I might cringe and weep and hide under the covers when my mental issues have it looping and looping into infinity... but I always crawl back out and accept the world's shit.

Here's the thing... are we allowed to get offended when, say, someone is discussing a horrific death in every gruesome detail while in a supposedly-civilised public place?