Real life violence... just another meme
Ryan Broderick & Adam Bumas, posted on in: Notable Articles, politics, guns and political violence.
~127 words, about a 1 min read.
We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up seeing them as a path towards fame and glory. Another consequence of how thoroughly the internet has flattened pop culture, politics, and real life violence. All of it now is just another meme you can participate in to go viral. Made even more confusing by a new nihilistic accelerationist movement that delights in muddying the waters for older people who still adhere to a traditional political spectrum. Many young extremists now believe in a much simpler binary: Order and chaos. And if you are spending any time at all trying to derive meaning from violent acts like this then you are, by definition, their enemy.
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— Via Ryan Broderick & Adam Bumas, Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme