Are you going towards a decline? Or to be appropriate, a dick line.
There was this tweet from a Taylor Swift fan recently (as most of us know by now Taylor Swift is one o the positive news we're all lucky to have this year, new music!). Anyway, the tweet showed a series of photos shot by her lover, Joe Alwyn, with the caption "Taylor Swift shot by Joe Alwyn".
At first glance, what did you think were the contents of the tweet?
A. Shot pertained to the act of shooting a gun;
B. Shot pertained to the act of having photos, whether portraits or not;
C. A glass of liquor, preferably wine; or
D. The lovebirds became the newest NBA stars enlisted to help an aging star have a "shot" at the title (Did you see what I did there?)
Some fans were scared, thinking that the songwriter was shot in a morbid context. Anyway, the correct context of the tweet was definitely letter B. That's the beauty of the English language, or whatever language there is. It can not be defined by a solitary set of words and thoughts.
Case in point, the word "shot" can have five different meanings and without going deep into the context, you'd surely get lost.
With words like these, it's quite often that puns are born out of the premise of having words be spelled and spoken the sway despite having completely different meanings. Most of the time, puns revolving around dark humor are laughable because the reality is the opposite of the prepared joke. However, come to think if the table is to be turned?
I didn't think that I'd need to think about it until this morning when I woke up to the news of a mother and son shot by a policeman. Shot. Dead.
The medium's not a digital nor an analogue camera, but a 9-mm Beretta. The only pictures that emerged from the event where documentation and the mugshot of the suspect.
This development, or decline, (as WatchMojo would often do referring to "Dishonorable Mentions") had an impact to someone who has always been fond of puns and literary contortions. I would never look at that specific joke I mentioned at the start. I could only hope that Justice would wipe her glasses so she could clearly see how justice would have to be served. It just had to be served because a decline like this manifested by taking lives in a cold-blooded manner would never be something that should be taken lightly.
Something needs to be done. It's one of those instances wherein we could safely say that humanity had taken a couple of steps back from evolution. For a moment, we're back at the early moments of this thing they called "Survival of the Fittest".
Let's take those steps back towards the right path. Avoid a dick line.
