{"id":11677,"date":"2014-05-21T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com?p=11677&#038;preview_id=11677"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:15:26","slug":"bullshot-pablo-pinero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-pablo-pinero\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Pablo Pi\u00f1ero Stillman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PW<\/strong>: The father in \u201cTracking the War\u201d had no comment about the news of all the beheadings in Mexico\u2019s drug war. The son tried understanding the beheadings with a simple explanation: \u201cIt\u2019s just evil,\u201d which he felt was an equally unsatisfying response. Is there an acceptable response?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>PP<\/strong>: There are two levels to that question. On the one hand, how does (should) a person react to living in a place in which one can get mugged or kidnapped at any moment, a place in which almost all of these acts go unpunished? After all, people in Mexico City can\u2019t be in a 24\/7 state of panic. I guess one just has to go to their defense mechanism of choice: dissociation, denial, isolation, withdrawal, satire, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The other thing that interests me is how we can approach these horrendous acts intellectually. (Yes, I know, a defense mechanism in itself.) What do these acts mean? This is what really perplexes the characters in this story. What if all this suffering is totally meaningless?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But I guess the easiest way to explain it to someone who hasn\u2019t experienced it\u2014someone, say, living in a nice college town in the Midwest\u2014is to ask them if they think there is an acceptable response to global warming. We\u2019re destroying the planet, we are well aware that we\u2019re destroying the planet, and yet look at us, going about our daily lives as if nothing\u2019s the matter.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What if all this suffering is totally meaningless?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[707,12],"class_list":["post-11677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-mexico","tag-violence","writer-pete-witte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12066,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11677\/revisions\/12066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}