Live leak

I just spent over four hours watching footage after footage of things I otherwise would probably not have been exposed to had it not been for the convenience of Live Leak. 

After admitting to a mere page that I was over eighteen years of age, just by clicking on CONFIRM, a hyperlink ensured me that I was on my way to seeing the most gruesome and graphic and grotesque of videos in existence. Now I am brutally honest about my age because I am conscious of the fact that I am ageing and that I am not getting any younger, but think of all those who are far younger than eighteen years of age and have access to this website. Most of their parents are digital immigrants so they cannot always prevent this. I mean, is eighteen the right age for people to be exposed to the disgusting doings of other people? Should we even censor anything at all? Should we continue to hide the ugliness of the real world to minors? 

I have to thank the internet for this privilege though. I mean, had it not been to the easy exposure to archived recorded evidence then I would have grown up believing that the entire world ran like Australia did and that wars were a thing of the past and that there exists peace in all nations. I would have grown up to believe that I am safe wherever I roam and that honour killings were myths and that public hangings were illegal. Thanks to the internet, I can lose faith in humanity. I can watch hidden camera recordings of hotel maids cleaning used cups wearing the same gloves after cleaning the toilet and wiping them dry with used towels. I can watch a couple fornicate whilst skydiving. I can watch Chinese people brutally behead an innocent bull and hear it cry in pain and register in my mind that I have been told lies my entire life about animals not feeling pain. And then I can see advertisements of places like McDonalds and crave meat and totally disregard the slaughterhouse video I saw prior to the advertisement of the juicy new burger available for the exchange of a couple of round pieces of nickel. 

The world is sickening and everyone's stories need to be heard. We cannot continue to live so narrow-minded in a world that offers you the viewing class to every aspect of every society. We need to stop promoting world peace and start acting on it. There are too many murders, too many crimes, too many disgusting acts to continue to live in ways that are ignorant to the things that happen in hushed manners. It is not fair that I get the privilege of waking up in a safe country when others elsewhere cannot even shut an eye in fear of being kidnapped or killed. 

But I will not remember this tomorrow. No. The society I live in renders me this way. I have to be silent and accept my fortunate state otherwise I will be seen as a public enemy, and I will have pepper spray behind my eyelids if I dare protest. We have the freedom of speech, yes, but what benefit is that?