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I do not normally use my blog as a way of venting my anger at the world, probably because I keep trying to claim that it doesn't exist - that I'm entirely optimistic about the eventual state of the world, that I believe that Tolerance will eventually spread. There's probably a reason for this, really - I can't stop caring about the world, so to keep myself sane I force myself to look at the world in a state of perpetual optimism. I have to believe that I can change the world.

And then this happens.

It's not necessarily the murder that I worry about. It's the fact that no one is picking this story up. Two teenagers make up a story about a guy being gay and hitting on them, to get out of jail time, and not one media outlet outside the town wrote anything about it. This happened two months ago, and the details are only just coming out now.

You cannot honestly imagine how disgusted I am right now. I actually, honestly, thought the world still cared. The only thing that really keeps me going is that people are starting to know, and that they're as disgusted as I am. Maybe the world really does still care, just that the media doesn't, so no one knows that they should. Maybe that's the most depressing thing of all here.

Oh, as a brief note...

Anyone who actually wanted to read the final thesis, I've put a copy of the PDF on my webspace, so people can feel free to download and read if they feel so inclined:

http://www.wikiphilia.net/kirby1024/lmdtthesis2007.pdf