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Well, seems nowadays no-one does anything of their own will. It cannot be acceoted in modern society that mankind is just a bit screwed up. If someone does something 'crazy' it has to be for a reason beyond that individual.
In Erfurt in Germany not long ago a 19 year old bloke shot a lot of teachers at his school, now, seemingly inevitably, the media has found its scapegoat. Allegedly, the person had Slipknot albums, and a song by them called 'school wars'. Now according to Kerrang, (and I would assume they know more about Slipknot than the tabloids...) Slipknot have never written a song under that title or any song with similar lyrics to those printed. But apparently the mass media knows best.
Know I am no genius, but ultimately this scapegoating does no good what so ever. In fact, if the papers think Slipknot and other such extreme bands are so bad they shouldn't be printing stuff like this... all it will do is give the band more publicity. And ultimately it's a load of rubbish. Listening to any type of music doesn't make you go out and shoot people. Neither does playing videogames. Neither does watching films. Have the world press never sat down, watched some violent films/ extreme music/ gory videogames, and then thought 'hmm, well we haven't gone on a huge massacre yet...'?!? Are they so dumb that they don't realise people still got murdered before video games, before television and film, and before extreme music...?
And with the number of Slipknot hoodie wearing types around nowadays (although granted, a lot of them are probably making some kind of fashion statement and bearly even realise Slipknot is a band not a fashion label...), you'd expect there to have been massacres all over Britain by now, but unless they were very well covered up I don't think there have been any... No doubt if there was a PS2 and copy of GTA3 the guys room that would have been blamed... Do they actually have a clue what part they played in his life? He may have bought a Slipknot CD, disliked it and never listened to it again. Unlikely, but no more so than saying listening to a certain type of music makes you go out and kill people...
All I can say is that I'm sick of this scapegoating... When will the media realise that no one can MAKE you go kill some people. They seem to believe that certain entertainment has some magic to it that causes all the suffering in the world. Humans cause it.
In Erfurt in Germany not long ago a 19 year old bloke shot a lot of teachers at his school, now, seemingly inevitably, the media has found its scapegoat. Allegedly, the person had Slipknot albums, and a song by them called 'school wars'. Now according to Kerrang, (and I would assume they know more about Slipknot than the tabloids...) Slipknot have never written a song under that title or any song with similar lyrics to those printed. But apparently the mass media knows best.
Know I am no genius, but ultimately this scapegoating does no good what so ever. In fact, if the papers think Slipknot and other such extreme bands are so bad they shouldn't be printing stuff like this... all it will do is give the band more publicity. And ultimately it's a load of rubbish. Listening to any type of music doesn't make you go out and shoot people. Neither does playing videogames. Neither does watching films. Have the world press never sat down, watched some violent films/ extreme music/ gory videogames, and then thought 'hmm, well we haven't gone on a huge massacre yet...'?!? Are they so dumb that they don't realise people still got murdered before video games, before television and film, and before extreme music...?
And with the number of Slipknot hoodie wearing types around nowadays (although granted, a lot of them are probably making some kind of fashion statement and bearly even realise Slipknot is a band not a fashion label...), you'd expect there to have been massacres all over Britain by now, but unless they were very well covered up I don't think there have been any... No doubt if there was a PS2 and copy of GTA3 the guys room that would have been blamed... Do they actually have a clue what part they played in his life? He may have bought a Slipknot CD, disliked it and never listened to it again. Unlikely, but no more so than saying listening to a certain type of music makes you go out and kill people...
All I can say is that I'm sick of this scapegoating... When will the media realise that no one can MAKE you go kill some people. They seem to believe that certain entertainment has some magic to it that causes all the suffering in the world. Humans cause it.
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Yeah they were talking about this on Xfm and basically laughed the idea out of the studio.
And Bill Hicks nailed it
"What performer is going to tell their fans to kill each other? If any messages were going to be put in the music, surely it would be to buy more records? Idiots..."
And Bill Hicks nailed it
"What performer is going to tell their fans to kill each other? If any messages were going to be put in the music, surely it would be to buy more records? Idiots..."
Well, seems nowadays no-one does anything of their own will. It cannot be acceoted in modern society that mankind is just a bit screwed up. If someone does something 'crazy' it has to be for a reason beyond that individual.
In Erfurt in Germany not long ago a 19 year old bloke shot a lot of teachers at his school, now, seemingly inevitably, the media has found its scapegoat. Allegedly, the person had Slipknot albums, and a song by them called 'school wars'. Now according to Kerrang, (and I would assume they know more about Slipknot than the tabloids...) Slipknot have never written a song under that title or any song with similar lyrics to those printed. But apparently the mass media knows best.
Know I am no genius, but ultimately this scapegoating does no good what so ever. In fact, if the papers think Slipknot and other such extreme bands are so bad they shouldn't be printing stuff like this... all it will do is give the band more publicity. And ultimately it's a load of rubbish. Listening to any type of music doesn't make you go out and shoot people. Neither does playing videogames. Neither does watching films. Have the world press never sat down, watched some violent films/ extreme music/ gory videogames, and then thought 'hmm, well we haven't gone on a huge massacre yet...'?!? Are they so dumb that they don't realise people still got murdered before video games, before television and film, and before extreme music...?
And with the number of Slipknot hoodie wearing types around nowadays (although granted, a lot of them are probably making some kind of fashion statement and bearly even realise Slipknot is a band not a fashion label...), you'd expect there to have been massacres all over Britain by now, but unless they were very well covered up I don't think there have been any... No doubt if there was a PS2 and copy of GTA3 the guys room that would have been blamed... Do they actually have a clue what part they played in his life? He may have bought a Slipknot CD, disliked it and never listened to it again. Unlikely, but no more so than saying listening to a certain type of music makes you go out and kill people...
All I can say is that I'm sick of this scapegoating... When will the media realise that no one can MAKE you go kill some people. They seem to believe that certain entertainment has some magic to it that causes all the suffering in the world. Humans cause it.
In Erfurt in Germany not long ago a 19 year old bloke shot a lot of teachers at his school, now, seemingly inevitably, the media has found its scapegoat. Allegedly, the person had Slipknot albums, and a song by them called 'school wars'. Now according to Kerrang, (and I would assume they know more about Slipknot than the tabloids...) Slipknot have never written a song under that title or any song with similar lyrics to those printed. But apparently the mass media knows best.
Know I am no genius, but ultimately this scapegoating does no good what so ever. In fact, if the papers think Slipknot and other such extreme bands are so bad they shouldn't be printing stuff like this... all it will do is give the band more publicity. And ultimately it's a load of rubbish. Listening to any type of music doesn't make you go out and shoot people. Neither does playing videogames. Neither does watching films. Have the world press never sat down, watched some violent films/ extreme music/ gory videogames, and then thought 'hmm, well we haven't gone on a huge massacre yet...'?!? Are they so dumb that they don't realise people still got murdered before video games, before television and film, and before extreme music...?
And with the number of Slipknot hoodie wearing types around nowadays (although granted, a lot of them are probably making some kind of fashion statement and bearly even realise Slipknot is a band not a fashion label...), you'd expect there to have been massacres all over Britain by now, but unless they were very well covered up I don't think there have been any... No doubt if there was a PS2 and copy of GTA3 the guys room that would have been blamed... Do they actually have a clue what part they played in his life? He may have bought a Slipknot CD, disliked it and never listened to it again. Unlikely, but no more so than saying listening to a certain type of music makes you go out and kill people...
All I can say is that I'm sick of this scapegoating... When will the media realise that no one can MAKE you go kill some people. They seem to believe that certain entertainment has some magic to it that causes all the suffering in the world. Humans cause it.
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