(T)here is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.
And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?"
So there is a And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?"
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse 5
I am actually intrigued that almost all the local blogs who have in the past promoted the ideas covered by this compendium have been strangely silent on the terror in Norway. There hasn’t (so far) been a squeak of condemnation or comment from the usual list of climate change denier and conservative Christian blogs. It must be embarrassing for them to see such an inhuman terrorist advocating for the same issues they have in the past.
Someone in the comment thread points at my post The benefits that multiculturalism brings. A post created almost immediately after the bombing had occurred and when an Islamic organization had taken credit. And a post that made no comment until such time as it became apparent who the culprit was when it was updated to reflect that news.
But what is there intelligent to say about this matter - I don't go the massacre thing regardless of who the perpetrator might be or whatever noble cause they might purport to support.
The reason why I haven't said anything up to now is that I haven't got anything say.
Kurt Vonnegut summed it up pretty well I think.