Tim Barrus, Get Used to Seeing It

It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. People now pack for bear. Culture war issues are often interpreted by vulnerable people, human beings who have through no fault of their own, struggle with mental health issues (on a good day), and on a bad day, they are often physically restrained. If the cops feel threatened in any way, they shoot first and ask questions later. So, when someone rants, lost down deep into the emptiness of their second selves, maybe it’s just a rant, so buy the man a soap box. The Internet is not a soap box. It will eat you alive. Trouble always follows fists, guns, Jack, dope and weed. Confrontations today are far, far more apt to become physical than ever before. You will see it. And you are going to wonder what the fuck was that. It will exist around at the edges. The people who do not fight to fit in will fight to not fit in. How does that work. That’s the point, it doesn’t. Who is to say who is mad. I would argue that the tsunami of guns in the pockets of the possessed and the dispossessed, is madness. If that is the heart and the guts of the American people, anyone can carry a gun anywhere they want, we have lost a culture war that is now fundamentally and utterly indifferent. I have to assume that everyone around me is armed. Armed culture wars are not culture wars. All bets are off. It always comes down to the last man standing shooting themselves in the head. The last man standing is an idiot.