COMMENT
We should all leave the house more, go someplace nice, the beach or the park or, best of all, the mall, walk the dog, get a dog, get a feed, get a life, drive some place, drive in circles, visit a boring relative - anything to avoid staying indoors and zoning out over the idiot box of the modern age, ie the instruments of the internet.
The day of Friday's mosque attacks was pure shock. The day after the mosque attacks was pure mourning. By Sunday, things were back to abnormal, with New Zealand doing its familiar obsessive thing, apportioning blame, going off, going batshit crazy, as conducted on social media. When tragedy strikes, behold the tweets of wrath.
We should close down gun shops. We should put Sean Plunket in a box and drop it in the middle of the ocean. We should not allow Chelsea Clinton to attend a vigil to honour the dead: "Forty-nine people died because of the rhetoric you put out there," she was told to her face.
Yes, let's close all those things down – sorry, Sean! – and everything will be better except it won't. Haters gonna hate. Terrorism finds a way. Strangely, the guy who caused this tragedy has been kind of sidelined; very little of the social media stuff I've been looking at through glazed eyes has been about that armed moron.