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Thursday, August 17, 2017

Pull the TRIGGER

Dear Existence,

Humans are idiots. They like to bandwagon words and phrases because "everyone else is using them". Please erase them.

Sincerely, Mar


Aaah, triggering. This...lovely term has come into excessive use, from my experience, for the past...oh...year or two. Again, from my experience, because I really don't fucking care how long it has been used in this modern, 21st-century, asinine way.

Like so many sacred things and things that were once used for particular, important and serious reasons, the mainstream of society has bastardized and terribly abused the word "trigger". Trigger, as in something that brings up memories and sensations of a traumatizing event. This word used to mean something. Something that was very serious and not to be taken jokingly.

I don't know nor do I particularly care how, but regardless, idiots of our mainstream society got their usurping hands on it and now use it to make light of anything that "seemingly", by their narrowed, crossed eyes, causes someone to throw some sort of fit.

"That person is carrying on in anger because someone on the internet posed something about Donald Trump! THEY'VE BEEN TRIGGEEEERRRED!"

Yeah.

You know who you are.

Idiots.

No, there were legitimate words and reason for that before it all became a joke. Before that word was thrown around to—in such limited form—"describe" someone speaking their mind, expressing themselves and their opinions. Now the word "trigger", which was once specifically used for people who experienced traumas, is used in a disparaging, off-handed way.

Now it's all a joke to you bobbleheads. You don't take people who you deem "triggered" seriously. You brush them off, jeer and mock them, tell them to "calm down". And we're not even talking about people who may have, in fact, been expressing their discomfort over something reminding them of a trauma.

But, of course, none of those people matter when you've jumped the bandwagon—the bandwagon of shameful stupidity, ignorance and cruelty. All that matters is spewing what you heard so-and-so say.

"Because everyone's doing it."

Brain cells; the next few generations are going to be devoid of them entirely, if these are the generations that are going to be raising them.

Like I said in my last post.

I've got a trigger for you right here.

Twirl on it.

The next time you decide some new verbal fad is cool to use, you take that trigger.

Point its figurative barrel to your head.

And please, do us all a favor and pull it.

Congratulations. You've just joined the brain cell suicide squad.