Shooters

Ponder: for every actual school shooter, how many kids are contemplating it?  The pool from which we would draw such kids would include, I would suspect, about half the boys in every high school who play first person shooter games ten hours or more a week.  And half might be low.   As far as I can tell, EVERYONE plays these games.  This includes, of course, girls, but we have never had a girl shooter that I can recall.

Are the aspiring shooters now to be redirected into hatred for the NRA and the 2nd Amendment?  Rene Girard had this phrase “violent unanimity” I always liked.  A crowd has a hive-mind, but a hive, of course, is a place to live and belong.  A group mind is not your mind particularly, but you are also a co-owner.

We need to be clear that the primary concern should not be school shootings.  This is merely the last manifestation of a sickness which is endemic.  It is the crystalization of something in the water, something in the air.

It is this sickness, this anti-social, alienated sickness, which should be our concern.  This sickness will inform these kids as they age.  It will suck life from their days, and joy from their hearts.  It will twist their minds, making truly Liberal thought difficult when not outright impossible.

We live in an era with simply competing propagandas.  This is, in large measure, what the long term effort by the Left to eradicate open dialogue and genuinely critical thinking has bought us.  Video games feed into social isolation and alienation, and alienation in turn makes integrative propaganda more effective, but the whole things stems from psychotic intellectuals, who continue to inhabit our universities sending out messages of darkness, violence and death, all in the name of justice, peace, and prosperity.