Hey, it's been a while

The world is crazy. Where I live I don't belong. I never did. We got a new mayor here and I don't have any idea what's going on. It almost seems like we don't have one. So there's nothing really to talk about locally unless there's stuff going on behind the scenes that I don't know about.

Back to the world being crazy. There's something going on that I don't understand. My fellow man, or maybe really my fellow American, is really drinking the Kool-Aid. It's fear-flavored and I don't know why they are chugging it but they are. The news cycle after 9/11 trained people to be afraid but it's a long time now. People should be older, wiser.

But no. Last week a jackass shot up a bunch of people in a movie theater in Colorado. And now people who should know better, people in my generation are afraid. Just really generally afraid. The box office for two weekends has been lower than expected because people are afraid to go to the theater. They've not only allowed this "person" to change their lives but they're also just being stupid. Once an event happens, it's happened. If you weren't in that theater, congratulations, you weren't shot. Why now be afraid, nationwide, after the fact? That makes no sense to me. It happened already. And now you're afraid? I don't understand people. And they're obsessed with it. They can't get off the subject. They just want to know why. Supposedly.

There is no why. Don't we know this? Shouldn't we all know this? I think we do. So are people just talking to talk because that's the subject right now? I almost feel like they're not really afraid and not really wondering, they're just talking because that's the subject to talk about and they want to be included in being afraid with the afraid concerned nice people who care so much about the people who died that they're going to stop living until everyone else decides it's okay to go back to normal. Is it social networking that's making people follow the herd, the incredibly stupid herd, even more than ever?

I don't know. Anyway, that's what frightens me. The herd.