Mass Shooters

It is easy to point fingers and rant about a deranged 24-year old young Ph.D. student who went berserk in a senseless killing rampage. When all is said and done, this carnage says as much about America as it is about ourselves as a society. When you consider all the postings and outrage, the mea-culpas, the homilies, the political grandstanding, and take aside all of these post-mortem passions and emotions, what makes it senseless, apart from this heinous act of acting out are these inexplicable symptoms of malignancies of a people living without any brakes..... a country where 3-month old babies, and 6-year old children, with lousy parents weaned on hype-stimulation, hyper-consumerism, hyper-Hollywood violence.... being allowed to go to movie theaters in post-midnight showings, when these little babies and kids should be in bed, past their bewitching hours. What does it say about American society when everyone is consumed by Hollywood hyperstimulation, hyper-excitement, games, violence on the movie screens.... and then blame everyone else for being a victimizer and ourselves as victims? All said, there is something which is going awry with American culture and American society --- a society without brakes, where little monsters grow up to become big monsters... big monsters spawn little monsters and go out to prey on others. Meanwhile, the "celebrity" culture of Hollywood worships cool, audacity, hambug, aggressiveness, and acting beyond the boundaries. Fact is, we have seen the "enemy," and it is all of us.... a country of uncouth, boorish, hyperstimulated people.... a culture which is hyper-individualistic, full of itself.... and in self-denial that we have a hugh drug, violence scourge in our midst. Meanwhile, our adults eat their own children. Our schools are in shambles. Our streets are no longer safe. It is today a "winner take all" society".... vapid, and barren of any moral-civil compass. And here, America's ruling elite is trying to preach "democracy, American style" to the rest of the world ? Does it make any sense at all?