I’ve kept quiet on the recent rampage killing since I wasn’t really sure what to say but since this is something that happened in my hometown where I’ve lived my whole life I feel the need to say something.
But this is not an issue that begins and ends with lonely nerds on the internet. Not here or in the incel community that the killer in my home was a part of. Everything is connected, and everything happens for a reason.
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Society, primarily through the media we consume, tells us how emotional connections are important and things everyone must have, but rarely does it go into HOW to make and maintain them.
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This is especially true for anime. Why do these people like each other? Because one of them said something nice with dramatic lighting, or because of some wacky romcom scenario. It doesn’t matter, just look at how much they love each other. Look at how sweet and perfect it is.
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Only, that doesn’t happen. Outside of family, unconditional love doesn’t really exist, and even then it’s not necessarily a given. Love isn’t something that’s just handed to you because of how great you are, nor does it stay no matter what you do because “the power of friendship”
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But because we’re taught that personal relationships are these pure and untouchable things, that makes it harder to deal with when they don’t just naturally happen, or if they even show the slightest crack.
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The fact is, it’s possible for someone who says they’ll always be with you to eventually hate your guts. It’s possible to have the best intentions, but to go through life hated and alone. That’s not good, or bad, it’s just life, and billions of people live with that every day.
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Anime, games, media - those are nice things to have, and it’s possible to learn valuable things from them too. But if you base your happiness, your identity, your relationships, how you view the world on them, you’re just living a lie. Sooner or later, that’ll catch up to you.
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This ended up being kind of a tangent, but the point is that something that is prevalent in all of society, but especially here, led to someone doing a horrible thing in my home. Please, do not make that same mistake.
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As a socialist, I feel weird giving libertarian-esque lines like “Life sucks and is unfair. You want this important thing? You’ll have to EARN it.” But, well, there are some things we can change and some things we can’t. We can change systems, but we can’t change human nature.
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I might end up writing something more detailed about this in the future, but for now, please go outside. Go to the park. Eat something different.
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Anyway, that’s all for the Sincere Adam Power Hour. Tune in next time when a beloved Twitter user flips their car four times because they were jamming out to the Devilman OST
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