Rant

[stillbeing]

EDIT: Seems I'm not the only one who thinks along these lines. At least someone at The Age appears to be following reason - Read on here.I’m not sure why I’m posting now since this journal is now defunct (and I will be shutting down my Molly_Cule journal due to complete lack of interest), but anyway, there is just too much so deeply wrong with the

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[evildoom_bunny]

I've read it! But I don't disagree

[stillbeing]

No, it does make sense and you do have a valid point. Whether parents let their kid run wild for fear the child will hate the parent, or whether they're wrapped up in cotton wool for fear of anything bad happening, the reason is still the same - the child is idolised and although I'm crossing into pop-psychology here, I don't think that's the way for a child to learn about society and the world around them.

[doozerberry]

That was so well written, and totally valid. In fact, I think it the sort of thing that 'society' should be reading at the moment, instead of what we are currently being bombarded with.

If it wasn't for losing your anonymity, and no doubt crossing some sort of legal boundary job wise, I would tell you to send it out to the world for more eyes to read.

[stillbeing]

Thanks for that - words of support mean a lot to me. I was actually surprised so many of you have read it so far. Feel free to send it to anyone you think might be interested and spread the sentiment (and I deliberately avoided using names or details, and used only what I knew was in the public domain already. Well, the names of the decedants anyway. I've just spotted my own name, though. Ooops. I'll edit that out.).

I guess it's for this reason I'm thinking of upgrading to a more "serious" blog. Livejournal is great for the community thing, but it's more opinions and stories that get stuck in my head, which might be better served out in the wider world. But I'm still toying with the idea, since I'm usually too lazy to keep these sorts of things updated regularly.

Re: Yo,

[stillbeing]

I want to retire molly_cule for two reasons:

Firstly, a lot of publishers won't look at works published online. Some of those shorts I want to take down and polish them up and submit around the place.

Secondly, I deliberately published only one quarter of a ten-page story and waited until someone asked to read the rest. Nobody has. Doesn't really say much for my readership, now, does it?

And I want to pick your brains a bit more on the hosting side of things we discussed the other day, but I'll email you about it.

[divamelisande]

wow. as usual, I agree with you wholeheartedly. I am at work and need to read this at home to really digest it, but, um, YEAH.

[smegforbrains83]

so nice to hear somebody talking about the things i've been thinking

the statistics and experts that have been ranting in the Aged & Herald Scum are quite full of shit

blaming a sub-culture group like emos & goths as a high candidate for suicide or whatever else is the hot topic on Today (vomit) Tonight like smoking ice etc etc is bullshit (forgive my intellectual wording)

"jocks" & the so-called "popular" crowds are just as likely to use myspace (and they do) and to dabble in the common dangerous themes that teenagers have to deal with regardless of their social categorisation AND regardless of whether they are bubble wrapped by their parents or left to their own devices

the media, parents, teachers and "experts" love to place blame on everyone and everything but themselves. One week its those emos, the next its that rap music, then of course back to the classic of blaming Horror Movies. Just so ol' Berryl from next door can be quoted by the press saying "he/she was a quiet boy/girl, kept to him/herself mostly. But i think he/she

[stillbeing]

A lot of those 'experts' should know better than to spruik their opinions anyway, only hours (or in some cases,, minutes) after news has broken. They have no idea of the full evidence in the case, so how dare they go up on camera or in print giving opinions like they know anything about these two girls? Just because they have a degree and a title with a bunch of fancy letters after their name doesn't mean they're bright enough to hold their tongues when they really can't know what they're talking about.

I think the classic example was watching Fox News during September 11 at uni (though I guess that statement just says it all, really). At one stage, one of their 'experts' they brought into the studio just 2 hours into the attacks stated that US intelligence placed Osama bin Laden meeting with Sadaam Hussein in Iraq the week before.

Perhaps these 'experts' have more an interest in shaping public opinion than actually being an expert in facts?