O/T feel sick inside - CT Elementary shooting

[Leon]

Originally Posted by kcohen

CySeymour's second paragraph evokes a thought, not original, I have had for some time. I cannot prove it, but I cannot help but feel that an increase in the frequency of these horrid events stems somehow from a correlation between our mushrooming rate of digital connectivity and the isolation, paradoxically, it engenders in certain personality types. Social media makes it so much easier for extreme fringe elements to find each other.

This is what I told my wife yesterday. I think a contributing factor to this, and these types of tragedy, might be the new age of lightening fast information transfer around the world.

As for this discussion, there won't be anything solved on this board, and it's almost like a political debate. We'll let it go a little longer but please keep the "privacy" board rules in mind. If you want to get into a heated argument you need to be well known or have your name by your posts. Since the debate is sort of generic that rule isn't being as strictly enforced but it's still there. Also, after a while longer I can see this thread potentially being locked, so we can get back to what the focus of the board is. We are all an internet family and I don't see some debate like this being the demise of civilization as we know it. I am still very sad for the families and friends involved in CT. It almost takes my breath away when I really think about it.