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Meh:
TMT
What if people with anxiety just have a heightened sense of mortality. Pharmaceutical companies and therapists never discuss anxiety in that type of context. The pop culture messaging is that a person's brain is broken, unbalanced.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/terror-management-theory
Meh:
The Nashville bombing targeted the Feds.
Hopalong:
What the right wing has unleashed is going to go on for a very long time, I believe. I don't know that it'll ever be put back in its bottle.
Domestic terrorism has a lot of appeal to alienated white men who live online and in gun culture. It's incredibly sad.
May sound radical (especially for someone who's online for hours daily) but I think the internet has broken our society. It'll take a long time to rebuild and repair but I think it can be done. Perhaps in another generation or two. Look what Ireland went through. There were bombings in London when I lived there in '74.
Despite the horror broadcast everywhere, it's important to hold perspective and remember that you're about as likely to be the direct victim of domestic terrorism as you are to have an airplane fall on you. It hurts us all but once we devolve into a state of panic, they win. We might as well hand over the keys and let them drive the country away.
I still have hope for America.
hugs,
Hops
Meh:
The bombing hasn't been linked yet to any political motivation. So far it's only conspiracy nonsense. I mean I'm just guessing I have no idea what is really going on there.
The ATT building however was a big hub. If anything the bomber may have been anti-5G network at the moment that would be my random guess.
Who knows all we can do is guess until more details come out. It's very strange. If all the FBI ends up saying is that it was a random act by a computer geek loner well that will be underreporting of info. If people try to link this to some voting machine conspiracy well so far I have a hard time believing that. It seems to be a rumor constructed to connect this to a political party. If any side can connect this to their opposition it sure will make somebody look bad.
With very little information both the left and the right are trying to connect this to the opposing party. Maybe it will be linked to some radical political party in the end. Who knows. So one wonders if the guy left behind any computers for the FBI to mine data from.
It seems like this is something a person would have to plan for years, not months. Anyhow has nothing to do with the purpose of this forum at all. It's just a random intrigue I guess.
Hopalong:
One of the most remarkable comments I read (before they identified him) after plowing through all the conspiracy stuff was: "That sounds like an extremely lonely person."
You're right, no explicit motive has been yet identified. He was a computer geek who lived with his parents and then his mother for most of his life so far, although he had his own place eventually. Sounds like an alienated, isolated white man to me. He may not be political, just alienated. So maybe it's irrelevant that as I understand it many far-righties turn out to be seriously alienated; some are mentally ill. Some far-lefties are too, but numbers-wise lefties overall tend to be less involved in violence. That's a fact (despite some looting during protests).
Regardless of my rightie-leftie take on things though, I hear you.
Moving beyond the Nashville incident, I don't think violence like an ISIS-style suicide bomber is about political party as much as it is about detachment from community and others' humanity. At some point, it may be widely accepted that one party went farther in the direction that tends to divorce people from others' humanity (and their own). I personally believe we have enough evidence of that, but don't think my understanding (or political stances) are at herd immunity level!
I do think the internet has broken society. People that isolated get drawn into very conspiratorial and non-fact-based corners of the internet. (Not saying I know he was.) We all live with the results of the internet, whether it spurs on rabid incels, organized hate groups, ISIS beheadings, school shooters, or a white nationalist drift, or isolated domestic terrorists...all of it is fed by the internet's id. Id is like Honey Badger.
Ids be dangerous. Loneliness can be too.
hugs
Hops
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