FourthBase wrote:Maybe I'm wrong, but 5 years ago wouldn't this thread be up to 20 or 30 or 40 pages by now? Am I overstating that? Is this just not as big a deal as I think it is? Because, to me, it seems like it should maybe be the most-examined event in RI-board history, that maybe it deserves more attention and internet-sleuthing than all other RI subjects ever combined? Am I wrong? Are more people than I think just assuming that Marshall went nuts and wiped out his kids, his dog, and himself? And if so, would it be because that assumption frees a person from having to confront a most dreadful reality, but one that a person might actually be able to do a tiny little something about, albeit at the possible risk of harm to oneself and/or family? Is it just so much easier and more comfortable to shoot the shit back and forth about other things, things that ask nothing of us personally, like jellyfish and feminism and third-rate theorizing about mass shootings, topics that are relatively safe in their abject hopelessness or subjective abstractness or inconsequential sensationalism?
Or is it just that the board has gradually become kind of dead in general and I've been away too long to have noticed?
Its a good question IMO, there have been several cases or events that have happened in the last year or so that I was CERTAIN would get a ton of attention, discussion, interest and airtime here on RI that end as a page or two with no interest at all and soon forgotten, BIG EVENTS AND CASES and I couldnt believe it, very strange feeling and I have no idea why or how to explain it, I just figured people were busy and didnt have time to discuss them. But was sure 5 years ago they would have been hot topics.
I DO personally think this is MUCH MUCH bigger than people are making it, look at abovetopsecret that place goes wild within minutes and you have 60 pages of discussion when something like this happens and as far as I can see there is one thread started by a guy who lives in the area and asked if the folks there thought it was strange and it is only FOUR PAGES LONG, hardly any interest at all.
I just really think this is a huge case that really deserves some serious attention and I wonder if collectively people are just now desensitized to all of this and it is just ho hum now when it happens.
Strange hit.