There was a Columbine like school shooing mentioned in Hunter Thompson's Hell's Angels book (from 1966). The kids targeted preps, jocks, and brains.
Charles Whittman climbed the UT tower. Richard Speck raped and murdered something like a dozen nurses in one night.
These are rampages against those in the ordered society.
bttt
Since murder is illegal everywhere...
Actually, I’ve considered the “great think” of mass society to be sick, some form of mass psychosis that is an out shoot of the MSM. The sick little children we call adults can do whatever they want, but not on my property.
I, like many Americans,learned to laugh at the “it’s society’s fault” bilge back in the sixties. I remember watching a Dudley Doright cartoon where the villain, Snidely Whiplash, was acquitted of one his crimes by his attorney , Dudley’s sweetheart Nell, because she claimed that it was society’s fault as Snidely grinned maliciously . The whole family had a pretty good laugh at the cartoon. But most people I knew sneered at the idea that society was responsible for bad behavior. We were taught that you and you alone were responsible for your own behavior. Apparently libs fostered the society’s fault canard very well. Now today nobody is responsible for what they do. Except for Bush and Republicans. (smirk)
Growing up in New York at that time, all I can say is, "Thank you, Mayor Lindsey".
...What was there in the 1960s vision of the world that could possibly lead anyone to consider it right to shoot at individuals who had done nothing to him?
Collective guilt is one of the legacies of the 1960s that is still with us. We are still seeing a guilt trip for slavery being laid on people who never owned a slave in their lives, and who would be repelled by the very idea of owning a slave.
Back in the 1960s, it was considered Deep Stuff among the intelligentsia to say that American society -- all of us collectively -- were somehow responsible for the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King.
During the 1960s, the idea spread like wildfire that whatever you were lacking was someone else's fault -- society's fault. If you were poor, whether at home or in some Third World country, you were one of the "dispossessed" -- even if you had never possessed anything to dispossess you of...
...This sweeping and heady vision made it unnecessary to stoop to anything so mundane as hard facts -- which would have included the fact that urban riots struck most often and most violently when and where this collective guilt vision prevailed...
...But, then as now, facts often came in a poor second to heady visions and sweeping rhetoric...
If other people are somehow responsible for whatever is lacking in your life, lashing out at random against individuals who have done nothing to you personally can sound plausible to many people.
...Instead of banning guns, maybe we should rethink 1960s dogmas.
Nailed It!
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The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing . . .
It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith
The attempt to eliminate personal responsibility is the Left’s means of eliminating the concept of sin. The fact is, man is broken inside. He is separated from his creator. Any attempt to create a contrary worldview for society will lead to irrational behavior. The intellectuals may be able to convince themselves that their false doctrine is valid, but the common man doesn’t have the willpower to keep himself self-deceived all day every day. Eventually, he abandons the false doctrine or he explodes.