This time, it's about the scapegoats people are trying to find and, IMO, pathologically require as a part of some fake grieving process and, allegedly, change[1].

It's pretty clear that part of the "process" of the upcoming conversation is well underway so I'm engaging in more wishful thinking and trying to stomp, using sarcasm, on the relevant flailings that I've seen here at DB and elsewhere. Here's my so-far list:

1) Video games

2) Quentin Tarantino

3) SSRI

4) Almost, but not quite, the mentally ill; IMO, the "conversation" has moved close to using (as scapegoats) consumers of mental health services, but the "conversation" has not quite gone over the line.

Yet.

And lest we forget, a short reminder: Homosexuality. Japanesiality. Africanality. Vaginality, for fucks' sake.

Get the idea?

5) Weak girly men (and girly women, apparently) in elementary schools

6) Evil

Look, people: if we've learned anything, it's that (Quentin Tarantino) (SSRI) (the mentally ill)  (Evil) (Video games) don't kill people, people kill people.

Why is that so hard to understand?

That's politics. You're welcome.

[1] The absolute gold standard for "things will never be the same"? 9/11, right? Okay, so about two weeks and less than a month after 9/11, on 18th St. between 6th and 7th Ave. in NYC, outside my place of employment, two or more guys fought in broad daylight and in the street. One fighter stabbed another fighter in the gut with a sharpened steel bar.

Things will never be the same?