Every News site, newspaper, TV channel, Twitter and Facebook constantly feeds us stories of crime, atrocity and horror.
There are many celebrities and wannabes who forward, comment and spread these stories with an unprecedented enthusiasm.
Last year, a journalist of at best controversial and dislikable antecedents who had a number of enemies close and distant, was gunned down at her home, in the front porch.
Celebrities from actors to musicians and politicians tried to make media capital out of it, with fingers pointing in all directions. That filled many TV channels for nearly 10000 cumulative hours. Until the next story.
The trouble is that the media stoked up frenzy, anxiety and Horror but most of the reports are often far from the truth, however distasteful. And the law enforcement agencies are busy talking to the media rather than investigating the crime.
I feel our morbid preoccupation with crime, atrocity and horror in this manner shows our puerile personalities, secretly glad that we aren't facing that kind of crap in our own lives, and yet gossipy about others' misfortunes.
Most of these misfortunes are due to a society without values or checks and balances. Immigration, a society that is the melting pot of languages and cultures with huge economic pressures and feudalistic exploitations, with neither law and order nor social values to check such events.
And we have to firmly switch off from all this deluge of badness stories. Or we will ourselves become victims of mental derangement and instability.
And let's hope and pray that the law enforcement agencies do their bit as well as it is needed.
Have a nice day away from crime, atrocity and horror!
