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'Damn, gonna miss Shark Week.'
I paraphrased the guy's manifesto for my girlfriend last night. She was pretty horrified, mostly because she says incidents of massacres in America are going up and becoming more condensed, most likely because media coverage for this kind of stuff plays into potential killers' grandiose suicide fantasies. The coverage of Sandy Hook was good at looking at the victims instead of the psychology of the killer, but in a case like this it's pretty hard not to cover the murderer, and the fact that his manifesto purports to support positive social change just makes him more of a beacon for people about to snap.
Then I said that I don't think a thing like this could possibly happen in any other country. Like, obviously this guy snapped and although he once had a good head on his shoulders his actions are more about revenge and ego than anything socially justifiable. That could happen anywhere. But I think the way he decided to enact his vengeance, by becoming an action movie super villain, is specifically American. I mean, he's enacting such a grandiose power fantasy. Sure, American action movies go all of the world, but that sort of radically individualistic, cowboy revolutionary mentality seems like a piece of Americana to me.
So yeah.
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