Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Libya: More Irritated Brown People

I'm actually kind of pissed off by all the coverage of Libya.

A week ago Japan was naturally clusterfucked and so descended into a radioactive crisis. There were daily, sometimes hourly, updates on various news sites articulating the problems with the reactors. A wealth of stories could be found from multiple sources detailing the most recent contaminations, perpetually increasing death tolls, and a narrative of a people’s growing distrust in their government. All of which encased those delightfully little passive aggressive comparisons between the current nuclear crisis and that thing we did at the end of WWII to prevent those goldfish tending motherfuckers from slaughtering our troops in a land war.

It was awesome. It was interesting. It was novel.

Then I check the news sites to find that another fucking war broke out in the Middle East / North Africa / wherever, and so Japan takes a backseat to the same fucking thing we’ve been reading about since oh, I don’t know, ever? We had an awesome fixation upon impending nuclear meltdown going for about a week and then we descend back into boring, monotonous, normalcy. Another hive of sand-niggers done got pissed off and started slaughtering their own people. Whoopty-fuck-a-do; it must be Thursday.

Was another week or two of Japan really that much to ask for? I wanted to read more stories about the creator of pokemon fainting in response to the disaster, or learn that new crops and products had become contaminated. It was fantastic to check kotaku and find release schedules modified by a fucking tsunami, or games abandoned due to their focus upon the entertainment value of natural disasters. I mean, for fuck’s sake, game servers were shut down as a result of this thing. That’s awesome! And did no one else find delight in perusing the masses of Facebook posts which strove to incoherently link the Earthquake and Tsunami to Pearl Harbor?

That was some high-quality stupid; it was some quality dumb.

But now we’re back to “brown people are pissed off” and I have to go digging to find updated death tolls and Godzilla jokes. I mean, what, is xkcd going to make a chart detailing how fucking crazy Gaddafi is? Are my hulu commercial breaks going to be filled with red cross donation clips for Libya. No; of course not. Because brown people shooting each other is boring, predictable, normalcy.

We had an interesting news cycle; we received a deviation from the norm. And it was awesome. But now we’re back to business as usual. Libyaraqidamistan is in turmoil. The U.S. is bombing brown people. And, let’s go out on a limb, I’m guessing that Islam is involved.

That’s great and all. I’m really sorry that their sand is being blown up. But I’m going to go back to reading about christmas puppies being euthanized.

Because that, my friends, isn’t something I’ve seen before.

5 comments:

_J_ said...

Fun Fact: Libya sounds like Labia!

Roscoe said...

.. To be fair? Libya was going on before Japan, and we'd kinda hit the point where news has exhausted what they can say about Japan.

Plus, unlike every armed action we've taken over there since.. well.. roughly we were born, this one involves our original rogue-state boogeyman.

You seem to want to wring more trivial news out of Japan for its variety's sake, to distract yourself from.. what, precisely?

I mean, you don't find any solace in Leo McGarry calling up Will Shortz at the Time to complain about misspelling the Colonel's name in the clue? That's pretty much what you're talking about. Pop relics tangentially related to the issue.

Islam's not really even involved in this, or at least less so than Christianity is involved in actions the US takes... so.. I'm gathering.. you're fed up because it's the equivalent of another FPS on the market, and since it uses the same brown and grey color palette, you're up in arms about it being another WW2 shooter... when it's really.. I dunno.. a backwards muted version of Duke Nukem Forever?

_J_ said...

"Libya was going on before Japan"

I think that enhances my point. It's even more boring and tired and commonplace and bla bla bla i don't care.

_J_ said...

Man, Libya is, at best, a Serious Sam ripoff.

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