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Doc wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:54 pm

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:31 pm

Doc wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:54 pm

Should be in Best Finishing Moves topic.

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:31 pm Should be in Best Finishing Moves topic.

Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 8:02 pm Meanwhile...... appropriate soundtrack:

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Doc wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:54 pm

Simple Minded wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:39 pm

Doc wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:54 pm

I know this was in a movie, but I also think it happened before, somewhere.... unless I'm confusing TV with reality yet again.

One could make the argument this is why we need National Common Sense Bulldozer control laws or that gun control laws should be more lax so people would not have to buy bulldozers to get revenge. Revenge could be more accurate and personal, with a lot less capital collateral damage.

Mass Shootings and the World Liberalism Made
The debate over more or less gun control completely misses the horrifying heart of the matter: the modern world breeds the nihilism behind mass shootings.

The explanations offered by journalists and politicians are always the same: online radicalization, video games, white supremacy, misogyny, loneliness, fatherlessness, lack of sex, lack of intimacy, lack of community. The left demands stricter gun control and red flag laws. The right, fearful the left may prevail, insists that the real issue is our mental health epidemic—the result, we hear, of all those antidepressants and antipsychotics being prescribed to fatherless young men—and that the solution is to arm schoolteachers and hire more on-campus cops.

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We imagine that these killers have nothing to do with everyone else—that they are like a leper colony set apart from the rest of us, and every so often, one escapes and spreads his disease. We want to believe that because it makes us feel good. But the reality is that the smudge of nihilism’s fingerprints stains all things, everywhere.

It’s in the half-joking, half-serious proclamations of millennials who say they don’t want children because of the climate—because the world is beyond repair. It’s in the ubiquity of an even darker humor, the kind that was popularized by 4chan in the mid-2010s and captured the public imagination—the sort of things that can only be funny if life has lost any value.

It’s in the commingling of our leisure and anesthesia—we drink to escape, we exercise until we can’t feel anything, we propel ourselves into fantasy lives with fandom. It’s even, paradoxically, in our insistence on living “in the moment.” Nothing matters, so we may as well be happy with where we are. The darker side of “YOLO” is how it forecloses on the possibility that our lives matter in any grander sense, that we can be a part of a tradition that started long before we were born and will extend for ages after we die.

Parodite wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 1:05 pm Maybe there is something to it. Visiting the empty desert and have your demons, delusions of grandeur crawling out of the dark cracks and crevasses ready to take over and direct your actions. In the narrative you look them right in the face and do a vicious stare down. Until they blink and leave. The problem of Nihilism is not the emptiness but losing the stare down. Revenge killers et-al lost. Jesus et-al won.

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