Qu'est que c'est?

Today I am finding it interesting that mass murderers aren't administrative assistants.

So that sounds in poor taste, but A) that guy killing all those students is so horrendous it provokes a strange reaction in otherwise uninvolved people -- For example, I can honestly say I think the best word to characterize the media was "gleeful." Whoever I saw on the TV the next morning, Brian Williams I think, was basically beaming and pretending like THAT was an appropriately deferential response to such unbelievable violence and tragedy.

B) I really mean it. It is interesting. These killing spree people don't make any sense whatsoever. There'd actually BE some connection - some cause - if these people, say , had to work jobs where different casts of people treated them like their bitch, even their supposed peers in society, whenever they got the chance to enjoy a second's flash of power. Like Taxi Driver... but Taxi Driver is a movie. In real life these people are simmering with a blind rage that is not dimensional and not at all as related to causality as Travis Bickle's. It's just scary and they're determined to kill lots of people. Their frustration isn't related in any way to the frustration of most people who get mad at their place in the world and simmer at reality. They simmer lightly, comparatively, no matter how much they feel they can't control it. Killing spree people get mad at students for not appreciating their education of all the things to be enraged about! That's how twisted they are. That kid's parents had to be dry cleaners. But HE didn't. His parents didn't kill anyone and think how annoying people must be to the dry cleaner. This kid hadn't even experienced being told to "smile" while fixing someone else's three years fucked-up filing. Or driven a taxi thirty days in a row. So twisted. He'd just met a couple rich kids. I mean, hold you horses, people get so much WORSE than that! I'm not even slightly interested in his psychology. If anyone's reading his multimedia garbage it must be because it's so amazingly appalling that NBC rushed it out into the public. At least I am not interested at all in the rage of someone who should have died a long time ago.

My two cents on all that.

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Alexis