Religion, sacrifice, scapegoats, violence. Celebrity culture. Gun crime
http://whyguncrime.blogspot.co.uk/
Gun crime.... Was interesting to see that the sniper had a brain tumour. That explains a lot.
This says its as well as i could....thx to daniel mckay for this..
John David Ebert
It started in the workplace in the late 1980s with postal shootings, then spread in the 1990s from the workplace to school shootings, malls and most recently, movie theaters.
It is not a function of pyschotic individuals or the conservative right insisting on making guns available. It is rather the very structure of American society itself, a society based on intense social competition, greed, and social punishment. Penalizations for failing in American society are harsh: ostracism, social banishment, humiliation and imputations of worthlessness.
It is a society based on rewarding the few, very few, "winners" and on punishing the losers with excessive severity. The humiliated and disempowered "losers" strike back in an effort to restore their damaged identities the only way they perceive that they can: by hurting the society that has humiliated and punished them, striking back with violence that empowers the individual to restore and maintain a sense of dignity and identity in the face of a threatened erosion of that identity.
A society that breeds mass shootings is itself to blame, for it has created an ecology of social violence that damages individuals so severely that it leaves them feeling that there is no other choice but to strike back against that society with equal and opposite severity.
Changing gun laws is not the solution; it is the society itself that must change, but American society ISN'T going to change anytime in the near future.
Social barbarity is of its very essence and part of the engine that drives it to be the most rapacious, resource gobbling society of angry selfish individuals that the planet has ever seen.
The terrible truth is that our mass production of spree killers is testament to the fact that the system is working, for it is based on rewarding sociopaths and excluding losers.
Congratulations, America, you're model is working.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE8H1xsz54I&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Try to hang on in the vid until ....
842.... School shootings, Semiotic vacancy of meaning, superficial cosmology of the suburbs, Foundational act of violence a la renee gerard violence in the sacred, Commenerated in ritual,
This links in to the pel podcasts on celebrity and societies visceral need for sacrifices.
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Violence_and_the_Sacred.html?id=RGVKsW5rQ1kC&redir_esc=y
This links to rick roddick and foucault. The self under seige.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wetwETy4u0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
