HEROES AND VILLAINS

Short and sour.

Blaming what is essentially an endless epidemic of mass murder on mental health issues, while simultaneously embracing narratives of pedophile rings run out of pizzerias, Jewish space lasers, microchips in vaccines, and whatever else might be the latest horseshit coming out of these performatively pious shitstain tools of oligarchy today should, by all reasonable circumstances, be identified as counterintuitive.

Mark Twain reportedly said “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”

Maybe it’s time to accept the fact that these killings are the act of self-identified good guys with guns, acting in the service of what they perceive as justice, in what must be finally acknowledged as the second American Civil War. 

Just because it doesn’t look anything like the last time this country tore itself apart, doesn’t mean this isn’t precisely what is happening to us now.

But then again, a culture so shallow as ours, that all too often stops thinking at the “Good Guys/Bad Guys” stage, that embraces identitarianism of all social and political stripes in lieu of humanism, utterly lacks the imagination, let alone the insight, to perceive what’s happening to it in anyway other than through the filter of screened memory and received dramatization of fantasized non-experience, in an adolescent attempt to impose narrative order on chaos.