A Lament for Children and Trolls
The world is fucked
Look at your TV
Look at your city
Look at your country
Now look in your mirror
Aspartame in Jell-O
kills children’s brain cells
Suicide bombs
turn children’s brains into Jell-O
Online
trolls tell you who you can
and cannot
weep for
I choose to weep for the children
I choose to weep for the trolls
Because
obviously
neither one knows any better
© Copyright 2015 Bill Friday
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I don’t waste tears on the trolls because they should know better whether they choose to or not. They have that choice.
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Matt,
The post could just as easily be titled, “A Lament for Innocence and Ignorance”. We have ALL been ignorant at one time or another in our lives. If for no other reason, I’ll grieve a little for them, along with the victim of their ignorance.
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I envy your view of the world. I’m too stuck on willful hatred being different from ignorance… It seems wrong to afford these “ignorant” any of the grief we should be showering upon the victims.
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Are we still talking about internet trolls? I’ll save my actual hate for murderers.
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Hmm… Sorry. My thoughts were caught up in other things and I forgot we were talking about internet trolls. However, that does take me back to my original comment – they have the choice to act as they do or to behave with more empathy and compassion. Perhaps some of them are ignorant, but I’d say most get some perverse joy out of willfully hurting others with their words.
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And that is the way of the world, in the premise of my opening sentence. We have now come full-circle.
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I knew we would get there!
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The stuff that’s going on in the world today is most disturbing… I do worry about what we leave behind for our children. I do think internet trolls know what they are doing and just don’t care. It’s sad. I cannot believe they do not know better.
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Dani,
I wrote “A Lament for Children and Trolls” expressly because my one Facebook troll did, in fact, believe herself to be a true judge of right and wrong in the world. Additionally, she has, on more than one occasion, determined which oppressed group was worthy of sympathy, and which was not. This includes the people of France as those unworthy. She is not malicious, she is ignorant. Ignorant of human suffering, and ignorant of her own ignorance.
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That truly is sad Bill. 😦
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I wanna know where ya been lurking with trollz. I wanna know where ya been lurking.
I wanna stop eating everything because it all gives us cancer. I wanna stop driving but I can’t and I wanna …..
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