Quote: (04-25-2018 09:30 AM)PapayaTapper Wrote:
You meant ,,,"our kids are living in the safest period the human race has ever seen with more access to information and opportunities to work for themselves and create wealth, travel and freedom of choice than the world has ever seen so some of them are becoming deranged killers because they blame the cultural destruction by (((politicians))) that we've been ignoring for 50 years or anyone else instead of taking personal responsibility for the outcomes of their lives?"
Frankly, far from society suddenly coming to some newfound sympathy for people who struggle to fit in, I predict serious discussions about widespread re-institutionalization in the near future.
Yes, there's social awkwardness, and that's fine, but a couple of generations ago, someone like Minassian would likely have been singled out early and locked up when he couldn't get a handle on why the psychiatrists were pestering him and lost his temper, or at best kept in a room in the basement, not enlisted in the army, enrolled in college, and renting a van.
Look at how vulnerable de Blasio has become in New York over his kid gloves treatment of the homeless. For all the bitching they did about the injustice of it all, people don't want the pre-Giuliani city of the Bad Old Days back. SJW NIMBYism: yes, I believe in the rights of the homeless to sleep on the sidewalks, just not sidewalks I need to walk on. This is far more dramatic and imminent. The more aware people become of actual semi-organized dens of bitter misfits praising each other for murdering the high-functioning, the
less sympathetic they're going to be.
I doubt that this is the media's agenda. It's always been my sense that by offering obsessive coverage of police killings meant to create a debate about the treatment of African-Americans, they unwittingly made many people more fearful of African-American criminals than anyone has been in a generation. Likewise for coverage of violence by people with mental illnesses and developmental disorders. That's not going to end with widespread liberal emoting, "why didn't he get the help he needed for his toxic masculinity, why do we allow people to buy guns", it's going to end with "get this meowing creep the hell out of my neighborhood, yesterday so the rest of us can bang out in peace".