No Man is an Island

Or "Isolation and alienation" tend to breed massacres (at least in the U.S.)

When I grew up in the 1950s there just wasn't as much of this type of thing as now. Though in some ways people had less freedom than now in most ways they had much more freedom than now mainly because there were about 200 million less of us in the U.S. and jobs were incredibly easier to come by both part time and full time and in the 1950s through the early 1960s a 17 year old man could easily support up to 5 people who didn't have to work just by working as a garbage man or in construction. So life was much different than now. Also, and this is the most important, "People were much more supportive to each other than they are now." I think the main reasons this has changed mainly has to do with Television, then personal computers, then the internet and violent video games.

The young man aged 24 who shot 71 people and so far killed 12 was completely isolated and even though it sounds like he was something of a genius and in a PHD program there in Colorado didn't seem to have close friends there. This is almost always a potential recipe for a disaster, though not always.

First of all, you have someone likely close to or being a genius. Then you have someone who isolates themselves from others for some known or unknown reason. And along with this because of his incredible intelligence someone who can really think and imagine almost anything. So, here is someone who likely might not even masturbate. Because if he did it is likely he would never do what he did last night. Also, the time of this disaster would be when he would be feeling tension and need to release his tension somehow. And this was his blaze of glory in his own mind. But likely, being alone too much and not having anyone to bounce his thoughts and ideas off of and to tell him he was completely off his rocker was what was missing from this young man's life. And so, his life and so far 12 others and possibly more in the next month or so are over for good.

And who is to blame? I would say our present day society is to blame for what happened to him. Did he have emotional or mental problems? Likely. But, if anyone had been talking with him or if he had been open and honest with anyone about what he was experiencing I believe all this could have been avoided. What is unknown at present is what his diet was like and what drugs he might have been taking. These two things might tell us a lot about what really happened here.

Or, maybe he was just intelligent in a way in which he saw no future that he could stand to live in and decided to take revenge on the whole human race that spawned him. And maybe what he needed for himself and all life was just some feeling of compassion for himself and all life on earth and all of this could have been avoided.