the crazy continues
There’s been a shooting at a NASA building at the Johnson Space Center in Houston today. Not many details yet - but that doesn’t matter. There’s just no excuse for this kind of behavior. Gah. 
The big question now will be if this was triggered by the Virginia Tech thing or not. Many people (including the FBI) have been warning about the possibility of unstable people using prior tragedy as permission to put their own evil plans into action. Unstable people can also see signs of the instability of others as more evidence that they have to take matters into their own hands.
In some ways it is impressive that this kind of thing doesn’t actually happen more often than it does given the incredible complexity of the human mind and the multitude of ways in which things can break. As a software person, I’m intimately aware of just how much damage something as simple as a single character typo can cause. It’s hard to imagine how anyone stays sane at all, really. (Maybe no one is?)
Perhaps as our societies and technology and social expectations become more complex it simply overwhelms some of the brain models that are running out there. If that’s true, then we’ll be seeing a continuous increase in the crazy as the future crawls into the present - until our brains adapt.
April 20th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Media, media, media. How can the media NOT be blamed? I mean, you see the tape of the Va shooter being played all day on news networks…..who wouldn’t want that kind of media coverage??
I blame the media for most of society’s ills.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
@Mel: I was going to respond to you, then I got all long-winded and ended up with a whole new blog post… so.. uh.. yeah. It’s your fault. :-p