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

[shag carpet bomb]

At 06:02 PM 3/11/2009, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>>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

heh. completely unrelated to the topic, but similar dynamic. Agustin points 
out that, contra the fundamentalist feminists who argue that all johns must 
be crazed maniacs, if you actually look at the numbers NGOs and government 
agencies use to calculate the number of prostitutes and the numbers of 
johns they see, then there are simply far too many men visiting prostitutes 
for every single one to be a crazed pervert in need of jailing or drugs or 
therapy or some combination. IOW, it is more likely that most of the men 
who go to prostitutes are 'buoyz next door.' :)

shag

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