San Bernadino

[xoxoxoBruce]

Assuming as long as the media covers it, public interest stoked.
If public interest wanes, and the media switches to cat videos, will it cause public interest to shrink further, or grow, fed by the internet conspiracists?

Would losing media coverage separate the terrorists from the attention whores? Will one, or both, escalate to more elaborate productions like OK City or 9-11?

Does driving a vehicle randomly spreading clouds of anthrax produce the same woody, as going through a crowd playing the sorting hat, live, die, die, live, die?

Is the future unwritten?

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Is the future unwritten?

And can we take sandwiches?


Sorry - way flippant for this thread. I was really sad to read about this. I had some american friends(of the family, via J's dad) who lived in San Bernadino in the 80s and early 90s. J and his Dad visited there several times, growing up, and when they were in the Uk weall hooked up - so despite never having been there myself, it's a place I feel warm about.

[glatt]

We've got, what? 7 Billion people on this planet?

On every single day, since the beginning of time, if you look hard enough, you are going to be able to find something horrific going on somewhere. People being devastated. Every single day. Today, the media broadcasts it without you having to look for it.

But if you look around your own life, your own town, everything is pretty damn good. I mean, sure. We all have health issues sooner or later, or loved ones die or get sick. But on the balance, I'd rather live this life and enjoy it, even with some suffering thrown in now and then, than always worrying about that day's horrific thing happening somewhere else. Especially when there's not a damn thing I can do about it.