I tend to have a very limited amount of patience when it comes to over-inflated news stories that everyone is hearing about. I am of the opinion that if we are going to focus high concentration on a news story, it should be one that affects all of us like the soldiers fighting overseas (or how their families are faring here, for that matter), government activities, and so on. I remember the news being "boring" when I was a kid because most of it WAS focused on REAL news like the government, the troops, foreign activities, and so on. I could only WISH that the news still worked this way as half of the news focuses on ridiculous celebrity stories and random goofiness. Don't get me wrong, I get it: people don't want to be weighed down with the heaviness of things that might upset or scare them. It's a ratings game. With that being said, if you don't know your history, it's doomed to repeat itself. Why WOULDN'T people want to know what's going on? Why is our society more worried about finding out which cake Kim Kardashian is picking for her daughter's next birthday than what our nation is currently experiencing? It's a mystery to me.
My patience is wearing thin lately on the Duggar incident (Josh Duggar incident). I shudder at even reducing the happenings to the word "incident" but for the sake of writing, I'll use that word. Let me first say that what he did was disgusting. I'm not concerned with what age he was when it comes to categorizing it with about a billion different words that are all negative. His actions were despicable. Do I like or agree with how it was handled? On a personal level, not so much. My problem lies with the way it is being handled NOW, though. Why the hell is this a news story? Aside from smearing the family name, what good is it doing to drag up past events now? My concern has zero to do with Josh and all to do with the victims, whoever they are. This has got to be killing them. Victims of such monstrosities live with this for the rest of their lives already....now it's being dragged out for the world to pick apart and discuss. How awful for them. How truly, truly awful. I refuse to become one of those people that posts a million posts on this just to condemn and spread the word. This should NOT be being handled in the public eye. You want to inform others for the "safety" of who he's around from now on, fine. The victims should not be having to relive this, though. End of story.
I say all of that to say this: If you are one of the people posting all of this media hype just for the sake of doing some sort of "public service," think before you post. It's one thing to share an opinion and it's another to focus so much on an event like this that you forget what's happening in your nation. Open your eyes to what is going on and stop focusing so much on the lives of celebrities.
(On a brief side note, I have a thought for a few to ponder. Those that are smearing the family name because it's "evidence" of the Duggars not being as "perfect" or "pious" as you thought, consider the following: Is it possible that if people stopped focusing their attention on these reality TV families as a whole (all of them from the Kardashians to the Duggars) that, perhaps, there would be no need to dissect any of them because they'd ALL go away from the public eye? Drawing more attention to them by posting constantly isn't proving anything to most people. You aren't doing a public service. Opinions are fine but you aren't proving a thing.)
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