|
If there's a cultural problem to school shootings, it's that we are addicted to the drama of reality. The most dramatic, horibble thing we can imagine is schoolchildren being shot. We are glued to the coverage of it. Like driving past the traffic accident, we cannot turn away.
And these days, there isn't that much else that draws us together. This is, weirdly, one of those things. But it feels a little like we used to draw together over accomplishments. Like the moon shot, dramatic events such as the ending of M.A.S.H., artistic endeavors such as the Beatles, medical advancements like the end of Polio.
These days we are depressed, and have little in common, and only news of horror unites us.
Oh and Gangnam Style.
Only news of horror, and Gangnam Style, unite us.
It's like, "Hey everybody! We figured out AIDS and people don't have to die from it any longer!"
"Yeah but the medicine is so expensive."
|