Failed

[matrixmann]

"After [...] (insert whatever massacre you like here), we said "Never again!".
But what we forgot is that "make believe" is a part of human nature and we've got to make sure what people belief in. Nonsense or sense. Psychotic dreams and fiction or reality and the ability to learn to solve problems.
We didn't do that, instead turned a blind eye, blustered about guns and mental disease all the time, creating scapegoat images, pointing with our fingers at other people we deem different from us, and continued investing even more in believing in delusions and the power of the mighty one who can trick all people and get whatever he wants.
So we, as a society, get what we deserve..."

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

You know what I will say. It is the environment that shapes the thoughts and not the other way around. People see no meaning in life and start getting nuts. I don't think we can change it until the whole different structure of society is established.

[matrixmann]

You know, I see it similar.
Just erasing guns from peoples' surroundings, even if it's such an environment like in America where you're overly surrounded by them, it's not going to change the matter - then people start grabbing knives or beating each other with their own fists.
Is that so much better only because no-one can kill 10 people at once? I don't think so. The aim eventually is to get people to not just be violent because of trivialities or because of their own narcissism (or because of a longing for their own death).
- At that end, one actually stands where Columbine (as the tip of the iceberg) left society. And you know, that's 20 years ago next year. Nothing learned.
As long as society is just about "beat the other so you don't get beaten and look like a fool in front of the community", as long as that is, nothing will change on that pattern. Some dude will frequently go nuts over this society concept or will execute it in the most radical way. Why? Because he gets shown "to live this pattern is alright".

And the far right idiots you already had on that end in the recent time, there's also not much to say about it than "the guilt is yours, society". Why? Because of failing to address problems because of ideologically narrowed world views from the side of OTHER than the far right, because of the extreme partisanship that is on in the US these days, and because state and society in their respective groups are willing to accept 5th-column-extremism as free speech, up until it's too late and it does what it does, showing openly that it aims for more than just calling out a stance.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Instead everyone is focused on insignificant things like guns and mental cases. The problem is much wider than that.

[matrixmann]

That's why I put it in there: "But what we forgot is that "make believe" is a part of human nature and we've got to make sure what people belief in. (...)
We didn't do that, instead turned a blind eye, blustered about guns and mental disease all the time, creating scapegoat images, pointing with our fingers at other people we deem different from us, and continued investing even more in believing in delusions and the power of the mighty one who can trick all people and get whatever he wants."
Getting stuck with single items, single aspects, instead of looking at the broader picture and recognizing even deeper structures that foster such behavior patterns...