Bad Moon Rising
This morning, while I drank my coffee and tried to wake up, I found myself (for no particular reason) scrolling my Twitter feed
I’ve never understood how Twitter works and why my feed is populated with some images and stories and not others.
I suppose the content is generated by people who I have, over the years, elected to follow.
Dr. McCullough’s posts invariably pertain to medical scholarship, but there are loads of other posts of videos—shot in cities and towns all over America—of young people attacking each other in classrooms, looting Walmart, shooting each other, smashing up stores and gas stations, yelling obscenities, and generally acting like total lunatics.
An especially disturbing video showed a boy (dressed up like a girl) walk into a filling station convenience store carrying an axe and then subsequently—with no apparent motive—attacking two customers with it. I’ve never seen anyone struck in the face by an axe before, and I found it extremely disturbing.
CORRECTION: After I published this post, a reader told me that the axe attack did NOT happen in the USA, but in Australia. The reader included a link to a news report about the attack, which described the assailant as Evie Amati. The report states:
She was sentenced to a minimum of four and a half years behind bars, after her lawyer argued her transgender operation caused her immense pain and contributed to her later trying to kill strangers.
The U.S. is a huge country populated by over 330 million people, and most of them are carrying phones equipped with video cameras. This produces a high probability that any dramatic and violent act will be filmed and posted on the internet.
This new technological state of affairs has given us a view of violence and chaos that we never had before, so we should be mindful of the possibility that such scenes are NOT representative of what is going on in most places at most times.
It’s been a long time since I looked at any per capita violent crime statistics, and I know that towns like Chicago have always had violent neighborhoods and violent periods of history. Nevertheless, I also know from talking to longtime residents of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York that these cities have, in recent times, experienced a dramatic spike in property and violent crime.
Statistics aside, the violence and chaos documented on my Twitter feed this morning struck me as having a different quality from crime video footage I’ve viewed in the past. What is particularly disturbing is the lack of apparent motive.
When I was growing up in Texas in the eighties, it was very common for boys to get into fistfights, but these were ritualized, pecking order confrontations in the schoolyard or playing field, and they almost always ended when one boy got knocked down and gave up.
The ferocious classroom assaults that are now being documented appear to be downright homicidal. In my day, such assaults were unthinkable.
Likewise, what is the motive for the totally random acts of violence that are now being videotaped on American streets? Such crimes appear to have no motive, which gives them an eery similarity to serial murder, for which “no apparent motive” is often a hallmark.
My Twitter feed this morning reminded me of Edmund Burke’s famous sentence in Reflections on the Revolution in France in which he describes what happens when a society’s institutional order breaks down, and humans return to their archaic, tribal, and warlike animal state.
When this happens, a once great civilization lapses into what he called:
The antagonist world of madness, discord, vice, confusion and unavailing sorrow.
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The causes? Many…woke schools, defunding the police, harmful big pharma drugs, lack of parenting, undocumented border crossings, the demented Internet, democrats and leftists agendas and a general breakdown of the court system. We have always had problems, but with cameras everywhere and the leftist media blowing things up out of proportion, things seems worse…yet I know of no one who has been affected by this unruly behavior.
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It’s also violence propaganda. The Machine constantly wants the population in a state of fear. It’s implied that all these things could happen to YOU, at any time. Human fascination with strife is inborn, i.e., ogling the car crash, witnessing a fight.
Has no one noticed that TV programming, on all major networks & most others, centers on violence, crime, medical emergencies? Shows now consist of medical drama, police ( all agencies) dramas, military/war or ridiculous sit-coms. Recent show adds fire to the mix. And News programs! Countless hours of news programs, filling up all that space, saying nothing, over & over again.
Shows that were based on non- fiction journal reports are now centered on murder, always. ‘Dateline’, ’20/20′ and others all focus now on murder, exclusively, no longer speaking truth to power as they began. The re-runs of these programs aired, focus only on ones detailing murder, none of the others, as if they never happened. 60 minutes has become a joke- I no longer even check to see if they have a topic I’m interested in, it’s all so banal.
And drug ads – the only country in the world, except New Zealand, which just began a couple years ago, allow this. 95% of the ads I see, antenna only, are for pharmaceutical drugs – and a HUGE increase of new ones this past year. Its implied – we all need to see a doctor – this type or that, annually, constantly, as if, if we do, we will never die, that only a doctor can save you. Every little twinge must be reported and anylized. Every mood you have needs to be medicated.
Has anyone noticed the uptik in messages for mental illness Media? Every show that’s new that I have seen, someone needs to be treated for mental illness. A new generation of propaganda ads, tell me all my contemporaries need to focus n their mental health – that we are all damaged…it’s been fricken everywhere!!
You want to see the future? Media informs how the culture will evolve. TV hasn’t been around for long, internet even less. All media’s of the past, starting with religion millenia ago, or the village chief before that, inform a culture how to ‘behave’. Fake news, inflating issues (omg-climate changing!!), all of these things create a constant state of fear, you are not safe. And they have been used in the same exact manner FOREVER, just the delivery vehicle changes.The Macine to the rescue, right? TV & internet make them more powerful than ever before and these next generations, no longer taught to think critically, to be medicated and taught fear from birth, will welcome the so called nanny state with open arms. I see no way to stop it.
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