Tag: violence and society

The horrible killings of last Friday in Newtown, Conn. instantly elicited a huge range of responses, as it should. It is a tribute to our collective psyche that we continue to be shocked, outraged, stunned by such events. In spite of their frequency we are not yet inured to them, but their frequency is growing. 

The news has been filled with hatred and killing since we, “the number one bad animal”, as some have called our species jokingly and affectionately, first started walking the earth. Whether killing is related to ideology turned fundamentalist, an, “unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs”, or to put it another way, an unquestioned insistence on a particular worldview or rigid adherence to an exceptionalist way of viewing the world.