justalilhype! Editorial
Words by Ryan Mitchell
Photography by Nico Mak

By this time, HYPE is nothing new; everyone knows about it, everyone sees it, and most of all everyone participates in it. However HYPE is still considered by many to be a phenomenon or a curse that mysteriously recruits a large group of people. Some even marvel at the extremes of HYPE. Use it to save and unite a nation, use if to reunite a Church congregation, appeal to a large mass of people to save the environment, but twist it to an extreme and it can destroy a country, and victimize people. What is spoken of are the EVILS of HYPE.

The mob factor: get a group of drunk or emotional people, irritate them a little and get a swarm of beasts more devastating than any heap of locus. The mob factor is an evil, a product of HYPE with the knob left turned on to extreme. The worst part of a mob is the surprise lack of logic heads have, even though the amount of bodies present. Witch hunts during the dark age which killed thousands of influential people proved the lack of realizing women were equal to men.

It is even worse when mobs become messy and too large to be unified because then, a riot is produced where there is no clear dominant goal; just destroy as much property or environment as possible. Riots are based from an important issue to many people, but results in frustrated people figures physically destroying and being a rebel, thinking violence will communicate better with authority.

But let’s look at the good of HYPE. Positivity of HYPE has caused tribes to come together, countries and races to come to peace. The HYPE of the Berlin wall falling could be heard all over the world through radio, television broadcasts and now in history textbooks. HYPE brought human rights to a level where toleration is no longer a standard, but but to a level where recognition of every individual is celebrated in the community.

Good HYPE has stumped out and reigned over the EVIL of HYPE. No matter how long it takes for positive HYPE to overcome evil, it always seems the negative has an expiry date. Citizens rise up against tyrants regardless of the threats, leaders still push to reform broken systems amid pressure from the opponents, and students vote and encourage their friends to have involvement in their future.

Anything can be used as a positive for the world, or a negative to help destroy it. Money, religion, and politics are only a few things that have can be a positive to society or used as an evil. Take fire and it can warm a hut, or take fire and burn down a home and HYPE is not excluded-  it can have no boundaries for what the evil can do, but the same goes for positive HYPE, there are no limits. It can surpass all expectations and still be blasting past the sky.