MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Terrence McCoy @ WashingtonPost.com, Aug. 19
If you read the stories of these six young male losers, you will recognize a lot about them from past stories you have read, as being nearly the same characters of disaffected and angry young males from other demographic groups' stories. For one example, with the following one, all you have to do is cross out the adjective "white" and fill in "black". It's actually very striking:
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There is also clearly a pathway where they go from being angry to entering into a tribe or gang what finally makes them feel like someone important:
Which sounds familiar because it is also in the stories of some young Muslim immigrants to Europe, and that in turn:
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/20/2017 - 7:49pm
I am working on a scholarly piece about the fact that most adolescents and early 20-somethings feel alienated. Why do they feel this way? As children, we all assume our families are normal; it is how some manage to cope with abuse, crude behaviors, and mores that don't make sense as we learn about societal expectations of behaviors. it is when some children are confronted with "normal" families of friends, and the way they relate to each other that they notice the pathology/sadness/abuse in their own families.
Prior to the internet, all we had to adjust our behavior and also learn from those who were successful around us was our own personal experiences. We learned that some behaviors worked and some didn't. The internet and talk radio has pushed us to a terrible opposite: one where some seek out those who justify uninformed conspiracies at the expense of thoughtfulness and seeking to be truly informed.
What I am trying to wrap my head around is the older population that is just plain pissed off and seems to have never had an actual thought go through their heads.
by CVille Dem on Sun, 08/20/2017 - 10:39pm
Good on you for working that topic. See below video.
Than just suggestions on the adults:
Rural vs. urban, country mouse vs. urban educated city mouse cosmpolitans getting all the pieces of the pie?
Everyone's that's working against traditional values--whatever those are depending upon environment--has ruined everything and is winning and we traditionals are losing?
That particular anger and hate, it really is international, we should all keep that in mind.
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/20/2017 - 11:15pm
CVilleDem . . . See my latest post.
Here's something for this...
Read my latest here...
Wound Collectors: The Lowest Base of the President's Base?
~OGD~
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Sun, 08/20/2017 - 11:20pm
Thanks, OGD.
by CVille Dem on Mon, 08/21/2017 - 7:56am
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/20/2017 - 11:08pm
These guys have become so toxic to touch by any wing of the GOP that conspiracy theories are starting to form that they were agents of a plot by Obama, McAuliffe and Soros:
from The Hill, Aug. 21: Idaho state rep shares conspiracy theory accusing Obama of staging Charlottesville
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/21/2017 - 4:28pm
Fascinating on the ad targeting and social work activity, reminds me of A Clockwork Orange
How to Fight the Allure of White Supremacy and ISIS/
A Hunt for Ways to Combat Online Radicalization
By Farhad Manjoo @ nytimes.com, Aug. 23
There are similarities between how Islamists and white nationalists operate online, researchers said. Those can be used to limit recruitment’s reach.
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/23/2017 - 1:52pm
an example of more young losers, taking extremist ideologies on and off like a pair of pants:
Tampa man arrested for allegedly killing 'neo-Nazi' roommates for disrespecting his Muslim faith
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 2:44pm
So ironic that the above case exactly illustrates this sure-to-be-controversial op-ed in the NYT today, which I happened on after posting the above:
Why Is the Southern Poverty Law Center Targeting Liberals?
By AYAAN HIRSI ALI
though she doesn't emphasize enough how the extremist ideologues she's against target young male cannon fodder. That if they couldn't get enough cannon fodder, their hate speech would merely stay as: speech.
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 3:55pm
White supremacist Christopher Cantwell surrenders to police
By Darran Simon and Rosa Flores, CNN, Updated 2:18 PM ET, Thu August 24, 2017
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 2:53pm