The online forum 8chan is better known than it was last week because the El Paso shooter, Patrick Crusius, uploaded his "Manifesto" to the site before he murdered 22 people.
A similar online forum, Gab.com, was allegedly used by the shooter who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October.
More specifically, blame the inevitable deterioration of lives lived online.
Possibly the past year's most astonishing news was that parents in Silicon Valley, where life online was created, are trying to keep their children away from screens.
Above 50, anxiety starts tipping toward neurosis and more difficult coping challenges until it extends out to 100 and personal destruction.
As surveys suggest, it appears that masses of people-especially in the U.S., for some reason-started finding themselves drifting past 50, into deeper and more dangerous levels of anxiety.
Gun-control laws? Maybe, but no serious person can believe they would be much more than thumbs in a dike standing against a more massively destructive force turning young men into zombielike killers.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-deep-dangers-of-life-online-11565215450?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
A similar online forum, Gab.com, was allegedly used by the shooter who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October.
More specifically, blame the inevitable deterioration of lives lived online.
Possibly the past year's most astonishing news was that parents in Silicon Valley, where life online was created, are trying to keep their children away from screens.
Above 50, anxiety starts tipping toward neurosis and more difficult coping challenges until it extends out to 100 and personal destruction.
As surveys suggest, it appears that masses of people-especially in the U.S., for some reason-started finding themselves drifting past 50, into deeper and more dangerous levels of anxiety.
Gun-control laws? Maybe, but no serious person can believe they would be much more than thumbs in a dike standing against a more massively destructive force turning young men into zombielike killers.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-deep-dangers-of-life-online-11565215450?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
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