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Cars Slow to Watch as Teens Beat Homeless Man to Death
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by PEP | June 27, 2008 at 05:39 am
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Once again, "A Clockwork Orange" proves to be accurate prophecy. The cruelty and de-personalization of our current society continues to grow.
A group of teenagers beat a homeless man to death as passers-by slowed to watch the attack, some of which was caught on videotape, police said.
Anthony Waters, 42, suffered a lacerated spleen and broken ribs during the attack Wednesday night and died at a hospital, police said.
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at 05:49 on June 27th, 2008
PEP, I think Clockwork Orange (my favourite book, by the way) is a one of the most important books of the last 100 years.
This is a shocking story.
at 06:22 on June 27th, 2008
I agree. I have never seen a movie that terrified me more than A Clockwork Orange.
Just today I provided a post here about some youths in Cleveland beating a homeless man to death. Reports of mindless gang violence--including kids videotaping "beatdowns"--are on the rise. Also on the rise: the impersonal sexualization of women, and the portrayal of women as basically, prey. Add to that the forced addition of so-called "honour killings" to Western culture and the increasing use of children for sex, sadly supported by sexual tourism in some specific countries, and you have a very nasty situation.
And I've also noticed that group verbal "beat downs" of people online--cyberbullying--is on the rise. A shrug-of-the-shoulders attitude that "it's all about ME anyway and the rest of it isn't important, nothing other than my instant amusement, no matter what it is, counts" seems to be the wave of the future.
Given our current U.S. cultural standards of entitlement and the sad disease of chronic self-embraced victimization, we seem hell-bent on exchanging any reasonable cultural standards for "gimme what you got, you ain't real anyway" attitudes. Things like honesty, fair play, the work ethic (gasp! yes, I mentioned what is an obscenity for many out loud!), and respect for others, let alone one's country, simply aren't seen as anything but old baggage today, things that should be thrown away.
Aside: I note with amusement that whenever I try to post a reply or send an email, the "system" decides that my material is spam. Then it demands that I write in those little letters, AKA the CAPTCHA feature-but this morning in email the system refused to provide the CAPTCHA until I hamered on the button several times.