Life of the Party
December 8, 2022 12:38 pm Leave your thoughts
TLDR:
*certain types of crimes have a used-by date due to tech.
*Crime evolves
*Elon’s gon git us all.
*Things not to say if I am murdered. Don’t be lazy.
There are videos about real crimes on a number of streaming services. Women are putting on makeup while telling murder stories for niche audiences (that are still in the thousands.) There are podcasts and docu-series. A lot of them rehash the more well-known stories and put their own spin on them, or update information about the court outcomes and families of victims.
When I was very young, I used to borrow books from the library about the big names; Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffery Dahmer, Richard Ramierez, Ed Kemper, Dennis Rader. One of the librarians thought I was strange, she’d stare at me and generally treat me like crap when we interacted. I also sort of hid the books on killers from my friends and other school kids because it was different then. My friends mostly understood my need to write and have them read it but they didn’t understand my interest in researching when I didn’t have to eg: for a school project.
The other kids were vacuous losers, brought up dragged up by crackheads on welfare.
True Crime interests me because it’s a dying phenomenon. Humans will always come in a scum-flavour, crime will continue through history, but its subject to evolution.
Philip K Dick’s Minority Report is definitely coming IRL. If you haven’t received the warning as you post something with a swear word on youtube, reminding you that your words might violate their terms of service…if you haven’t been shadow-banned for daring to question a narrative…If you aren’t foiled by some sort of pre-crime bot and you do end up committing a murder, you do it knowing that you’re probably going to get caught.
For some, that isn’t a deterrent, or their mental illness is too severe to control. CCTV, GPS, mobile phone towers, DNA, forensic psychology are tools to solve crimes and they don’t allow many loopholes to be able to argue their accuracy. Killers/serial killers still exist, we all watch the news. But the prevalence of killers escaping prosecution is seemingly decreasing, at least in the areas that are modernized and covered in CCTV and incidental surveillance. I expect that to continue, but evolve and become more digitally-based like the crimes popping up already with gamers who kill other people’s characters in-game and steal all their inventory, fraud with micro-transactions and similar.
Maybe once Elon uploads all our consciousness’s to the internet we’ll be murdered in a whole range of different ways!
One of the things that interests me is how when interviewing the friends or family of a victim. The crimes are in different places, committed by different age groups and for a range of motives but the reporter usually gets the same answers from them. If it were a book, I’d think it lazy writing because it’s clichéd and expected. Is it just that people don’t know what to say under pressure? Is their vocabulary lacking? In all this time, through all this crime, this is all we can come up with?
Things not to say:
If I’m the unfortunate victim of a Ted Bundy who slips the net, please never tell people “she was the life of the party.”
The phrase is cliched and passé, and I cringe if someone says it while speaking about a victim. Your victim, your friend or loved one was not like everyone else. When I hear them described as “the life of the party” it’s like they’re just another person and it loses my attention span and any impact. People use this to describe someone who is/was friendly, bubbly…and (probably) laughs a lot. Say that instead! They deserve the extra words, don’t they?
I can be the life of the party. I can also be the quiet one who vacantly nods at what you’re saying while dissociating and drinking all your free alcohol. Don’t lie about me.
“He was such a great guy, he’d give you the shirt off his back.”
Please don’t. I don’t want inherited pitstains.
I believe people are trying to infer the victim was the type of person who would go out of their way to help a stranger. Which is nice, but think about it…if they said he’d give you his pants, it would have more meaning. Guys take their shirts off all the time.
Give me your pants, then I’ll see how much you care.
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