[lbo-talk] German school gunman 'kills 16'

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Wed Mar 11 16:02:28 PDT 2009



> My hypothesis is unprecedented glorification of virtual
> or symbolic violence in mass culture.

That can't be it, because we're all bombarded with that stuff and 99.999(99?)% of us don't go out and kill even single person, let alone a bunch of them at once.

Unless your hypothesis also includes the idea that this unprecedented glorification of violence is only a "societal bad" in a very, very, very small number of cases?

/jordan



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