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April 21, 2004
Columbine Revisited
Excellent article about the Columbine massacre that occurred five years ago yesterday that talks directly about the real reasons why they did what they did. It even suggests that the outcome was better than what might have happened if they had lived, particularly Eric Harris. When you examine the myths that prevail versus what they know now (and should have known within a few weeks, I think), you can see an example of how the mainstream media fails society, and how mainstream society can't absorb facts or new concepts easily, at least in a "push media" way.
People think that they were a part of the Trenchcoat Mafia who was angry and violent. The killers were driven to this from years of taunting and bullying, but apparently this isn't the case at all. The real reason is a symbiotic relationship between a depressive rage-a-holic and a psychopath, but in order to understand this you have to know what a psychopath really is, or at least a reasonable idea, and not the movie-of-the-week definition.
The problem with this is that to get a solid understanding of what that is, you have to have an attention span that allows you to do more than digest short sound bites and headlines. The media has to be able to get real and factual information to you in a very short time span, which they say is not possible. There's just too much news to report, and not enough time. I mean, you can't expect to have less time for Everybody Loves Raymondor American Idol.
Posted by JonasParker at April 21, 2004 9:41 AM
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