"Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data."
https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status...74774297468928
"Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data."
https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status...74774297468928
One of the four newspapers Trump reads every day...
https://youtu.be/uTmfwklFM-M
Legislating based on fear and panic got us the “Patriot” Act.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Had a Copycat asshole here in Tampa yesterday arrested for a threat at a local WalMart:
“TAMPA, Fla. (FOX 13) - Deputies have made an arrest after a threat forced the evacuation of a Walmart in Gibsonton Sunday afternoon.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the Walmart on Gibsonton Drive just before 1:30 p.m. after a man called and said he was going to "shoot up" the store.”
http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-...-due-to-threat
Last edited by RJ; 08-05-2019 at 05:18 AM.
I've had a running hypothesis somewhat along these lines for a while now: Some critical point has been reached. The result is that a suite of variables are lined up such that its impacting a not insignificant number of people in a negative way. This is a recent phenomenon. I believe some combination of recent inventions are creating an effect. Things like ultra realistic games, social media, unknown side effects of newly created drugs, combined together in the right proportion for some people can get folks to the ledge of sanity and reality. This is exacerbated by the copy cat phenomenon. Ever since Klebold and Harris showed us all-- this is how unstable and grievance-bound people show the world what they think about things.
It looks to me very much like a recent problem. Going back through history in the last 100 years this mass-shooting phenomenon went through the roof ever since Columbine. Right when internet and very early stages of social media were getting off the ground and when the US started is voracious appetite for every drug known to man. Although it is overly cliché to say correlation isn't causation, and too often this is a smoke-screen to not look further, I think there is an unexplored interaction between some modern inventions.
People were stressed, angry, poor, ground-up, spit out, kicked around, and living through utter hell during the great depression. There wasn't a mass shooting or mass violence every other month. At the same time firearms were highly unregulated. We now have things way easier, with far more convenience, yet people are angrier and more grievance-bound than ever. They literally can't cope with shit.We need to look for why our grandparents and great grand parents could trudge through the shit storm of the Great Depression and not try to kill every m'fer that breathed on them.
It is highly ironic, tragically so, that life is the easiest its ever been for a huge swath of society, world-wide, yet for a large and growing number of people they can't cope, can't process, and can't handle it.
Separate note...just noticed this at the end of this shooters manifesto:
If a target seems too hot, live to fight another day.
Well...there it is...pretty much tells you all you need to know about active shooters. They aren't going to put up much if any resistance once rounds start going towards them.
Last edited by fixer; 08-05-2019 at 06:24 AM.