{"id":10852,"date":"2015-08-10T23:30:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=10852"},"modified":"2015-08-11T11:34:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T19:34:52","slug":"calibrating-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/calibrating-distress\/","title":{"rendered":"Calibrating Distress"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who use ‘social media,’ did you notice how quickly concern for the dead lion evoked angry complaints that ‘black lives matter?’<\/p>\n

People weren’t done mourning for whoever they were mourning for and they resented the outrage about the lion. Then some geniuses wrote think-pieces suggesting that it’s not an either\/or situation: We could be upset about black lives AND lions.<\/p>\n

Me, I don’t know what to feel upset about, or rather, what to put at the top of my list. There is just too much going on.<\/p>\n

Mass shootings, police shootings, dead lions, Donald Trump, dead Palestinian baby, starving children in Yemen, transgender teen bullying, more riots in Ferguson, and a little hippo being mauled to death (Daily Mail online, don’t look!)<\/p>\n

I couldn’t even feel a thing for the latest movie theater episode, except to feel sorry for Amy Schumer. Am I broken?<\/p>\n

I don’t understand why the poor Palestinian baby is worth more discussion that the dying refugees in Yemen, complete with malnourished babies who look like tiny skeletons.<\/p>\n

And while we’re on the subject, I was unable to be horrified at Planned Parenthood for marketing fetus organs. If someone wants to abort a fetus, why can’t it be used to promote life elsewhere? Because ‘life begins at conception?’ Why do Americans care so much more about the unborn than the born?<\/p>\n

Tonight, there is a woman out on the cliffs near my house, deciding whether to jump. There are helicopters and firetrucks and lots of commotion. I would personally go out to talk to her if I were allowed to. Meanwhile, people on our local community Facebook page are sending their prayers or complaining about the noise. A couple of people want her to jump and get it over with.<\/p>\n

I’ll bet you anything that those people are beside themselves about the fucking lion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"