We're providing unhinged, violent people a formula for getting their names spoken, their faces seen and their manifestos read, if only they'll kill. Why are we doing this? Why haven't all the national news media *already* signed a pact against covering mass shootings?
Plausibly due to the Fundamental Attribution Error? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error …
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That can get you the way, but I’m not sure it gets you the why. The why... so much of the meaning available to people in life now is not their own or in their own power, and so they look to raise up new Gods out of the groups they’re dependent on. And all Gods need enemies.
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Gods do usually seem to have enemies... why?
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