Balloon Ride Hoax causes gaurded emotional responses.

Date:   10/16/2009 10:58:43 AM ( 15 y ago)

There are two outcomes of yesterday's hoax:
- that real emotions and concern for others has to be put on hold until we can verify the story;
- losing trust in authorities.


It is too bad that we cannot just express our concerns for others immediately, because that would let the suffering people know that we are concerned for them when it really counts. Instead, we have to adapt the gaurded mindset of "wait and see, maybe this is all fake". We will be concerned for you later, maybe, if we find out that your story is genuine. No wonder we have such a cold and uncaring population!! I blame YOU, Mr. Heene [the boy's father].

As for the implications for authority figures - we were led to believe, by professional people who should have known better than to run with an uncomfirmed story, despite the fact that a police person said "I know the boy is in there". All in all, it was once again several authority figures all leading us on. We should have no faith in authority anymore, they have all cheapened their stations thourougly in recent times, and this is just one more example of that cheapening. Police, media, medical, government, financial, religious.... ummm, at there more? They are all poop, and not just from yesterday's farce, but from a recent history chock full of such transgressions and unprofessionalism.

As for yesterday's events, I don't think it is a good idea to give it further publicity, such as the TV is doing today with interviews and so on.

However, for the sake of my own little Kangaroo Court, here is The Evidence:
- the kid said he was hiding "for the show" ;
- the pattern: this family has done several detailed, well planned, attention-seeking [but cheap] things such as the decently-produced video of the kid's rapping to someone else's music, the TV show about wife-swapping with the famous over-the-top rantings by the dad, and now this runaway balloon stunt.

So, if we can now safely assume this "Kid in a runaway balloon" was all planned from the start by the hyperactive overbearing attention seeking dad and his naughty children, an assumption based on the patterns of publicity seeking behavior of this dad, then it begs the following question: How do we feel when we learn we have been fooled?

We should feel cheapened, cheated, and abused - especially when there was an emotional connection, perhaps some tearfull praying to God or other fates for a safe outcome. We will adapt a more gaurded attitude to public events. We owe God an apology for asking for his attention over this incident.

If our emotions were worn raw over something that was fake, then what does that say about our emotional connections to actual tragic events? When we are fooled, are those emotions genuine? Sure they are, but we regret having them.

Real, actual, tragic events will come along in everyone's life, and there is often no need for confirmation other than the first word. However, when it is about anything to do with the wider world beyond our personal lives, we have to be gaurded, cold, uncaring.

Fool me once, shame on me, fool us all over and over and over and we will just have to stop feeling anything for the wider world, and that is a shame. When we cannot trust in authorities then we just cannot know if global warming is real, if 9/11 was real, if the wars are being fought for the reasons they say they are, or if those earthquake victims are real...

In times when we should be caring, well, we will just wait and see if there is actual evidence, and we will start caring later on, perhaps to late.


 

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