A Nation and World out of touch with Reality?

When I grew up people were more used to dealing with physical things like wild animals and wild people around the world in the 1950s. From today's perspective you might have called us "wilder and crueler" than today. However, unfortunately, we were much more realistic and "in touch" with physical reality. Whereas I would say people have lost touch with "Physical reality" and become more proficient with "Theoretical Reality" instead. The Zimmerman case with Travon Martin is a perfect example of this.

Zimmerman was living in a "theoretical reality" rather than an actual reality when this happened when Travon Martin died. It is also possible that Travon Martin was also in an altered state from smoking marijuana too at that point. However, Marijuana if that was what happened does not make you violent it makes you paranoid. So, Travon likely was scared or paranoid.

So, you have the unrealistic nature of Zimmerman (which I might call the video game theoretical reality) coming up against the (reality?) of a 17 year old boy becoming a man. These two relative unrealities caused Travon Martin's death.

When you add to this the unreality of someone shooting someone for texting his babysitter to see if his child was all right in a movie theater, someone shooting someone for playing loud music at a gas station, someone shooting someone for vandalizing their car, you begin to see where I'm going with all this.

For example, vandals often were shot with rock salt in shotguns still when I was growing up. People didn't shoot people for vandalizing or stealing in the country. They just made those people have so much pain from rock salt embedded in the butts and backs so they never would do that again.

So, people didn't shoot people for doing a lot of things people do now. So, I'm thinking it is the video game, TV program, Twitter and Facebook generations with video games not clearly observing what is actually going on physically around them all the time.

People are getting just too into their heads and fantasies about everything. And in the south Arkansas to Florida when unreality is mixed with guns people die.

Fantasies and guns don't belong together, in bars, theaters, or just in your driveway. Because when they do some people are sure to die and people of color or a different race or look slightly different because of their dress are going to be dead. Fantasy and guns make people dead.

No one should have a gun who isn't realistic and have their head on straight. It's sort of like taking concealed weapons into a bar. No one but cops who aren't drinking alcohol right then should be doing this.


There is a book a little bit about this called "Suspicion Nation" that I was hearing about on CNN TV Today.

Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon ... - Amazon.com

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... Martin case? Why does America endure so many tragic shootings like this one? These are the questions at the heart of Suspicion Nation. Bestselling author.

News for suspicion nation

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1. Lisa Bloom's 'Suspicion Nation' dips into Trayvon Martin case

   Los Angeles Times ‎- by Hector Tobar ‎- 4 hours ago

   Book review: For better or worse, Lisa Bloom brings a TV pundit sensibility to the Trayvon Martin case in 'Suspicion Nation.'

    

    

    

   Even Lisa Bloom who actually wrote "Suspicion Nation" said she didn't do well on a test developed by a University to test bias against other races. So, even people who are trying to be helpful and not be racist especially in the white culture of America unknowingly contribute to subconscious racism in their actions towards minorities.