Monday, January 30, 2023
Lost Boys: The Violent Narcissism of Angry Young Men - The Atlantic
These attacks are not merely "violence" in some general sense, nor are they similar to other gun crimes classified as "mass shootings" beyond the number of victims. Drug-war shoot-outs and gang vendettas are awful, but they are better-understood problems, in both their origins and possible remedies. The Lost Boys, however, are the perpetrators of out-of-the-blue massacres of innocents. Their actions are not driven by criminal gain, but instead are meant to shock us, to make us grieve, and finally, to force us to acknowledge the miserable existence of the young men behind the triggers...
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