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| Sympathy for the devil |
| 2013-04-23 |
| Two complementary principles are at work here: First, half of everybody is below average. It's not necessarily the same half that's below average intellectually that's below average morally. Second, we no longer institutionalize the insane, except briefly for observation when they're frothing at the mouth. Therefore, the howls coming from the crazyhouse are dispersed among the population. |
| Posted by:Procopius2k |
| #3 They are also places where terror bombings are likely to occur. I expect sympathy to disappear after a few more bombings. Killers seem much less romantic after they kill your friends and family. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2013-04-23 11:55 |
| #2 My key takeway from the article: there will always be those that idolize psychopaths, lust after serial killers, and tweet longingly about suspected bombers. Noticing that is much easier now that we have the internet & social media. --- Some of the insane only froth at the mouth after they are riddled with bullets. In those cases the period of observation is very short and often doesn't involve an institution. -- I think the crazy / violent are pretty well distributed. -- rhetoric can drive the otherwise sane, insane. Doris Lessing wrote about an imaginary disease she called "undulant rhetoric". It was an epidemic in revolutionary France and in Nazi Germany. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-04-23 11:34 |
| #1 All true Yellowbar, however the dispersal is NOT uniform, it is clustered. Fortunately the clusters are in coastal states. Unfortunately these states have dense clusters dispersed across the demographic and high electoral counts. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-04-23 10:22 |