by Specop_007 » Thu 23 Jun 2005, 10:49:48
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cola-Is-Petroleum', 'T')hat's a very "cool" theory. But with your indulgence, I would like to tell you my own theory on this tragedy:
*The two boys grew up in a culture that has a morbidly freudian infatuation with guns. Look at American movies, TV, comic books etc:
The answer to ones problem is so often a nice, thick , cold, hard gun clutched in one's hand. The sweet release of pulling the trigger! The intoxicating feeling of power as you fire the gun, literally blowing your problems away. Gaze in awe at the Big Man with the gun! The solution to all of lifes problems is only one gun shot away!
*The boys grew up in a culture obssessed with "popularity", status, and "rugged individualism" (aka selfishly putting ones' own interests ahead of any community, 'every man for himself').
*The boys were teased by their peers; they found themselves at the bottom of a competitive and hostile social order, and they resented it.
*The boys probably had there own set of psychological problems which were only aggrevated by there circumstances. And they had access to guns. The only thing that might have been done to these boys to help them with there mental problems probably would have been to give them ritalin or prozac or something, as per the American fetish for pills and anti-depressents.
Now, take the above ingredients and mix together: Psycholigcally troubled, angry teenage boys, with social troubles, media brainwashing, perverse background cultural values, and then put a gun in each of there laps. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN?! You don't need an elaborate "Illuminati Jews from the Center of the Earth"-type 'mind control' theory to explain Columbine.
Good read, but lets get to the heart of the problem.
These kids, like many many kids today, grew up with parents who dont give a damn about their kids and think school is padi for daycare so both parents can work all day to come home and tell the kids "Go watch TV" so they can unwind from a long day at work comfortable in the thought a duel income family can afford that spiffy peice of shit BMW just like the neighbor has.
Call me old fashioned, but theres alot of good with having a parent not work and stay home to raise the kids. Theres also alot of good if the parents actually get involved with the kids, and dont set them in front of the electronic babysitter every day (TV with PS2 etc etc).
In the end, it all comes down to parenting.