...Have found a way to matter; about as inappropriately as it gets, certainly, but still... It puts them out there where all of us have to pay attention.
Equally unfortunately is the considerable probability that the competition is on now for the bigger, and better, body count. You hate yourself as much as you hate everybody else for letting you get this way (you are quite deluded at this point, so your own shortcomings, though always a considerable part of your self hatred, never really get properly connected to your own share of the bad cause and effect you've been subject to) and you want to die anyway, so why not do it with the ultimate middle finger of revenge served cold.
What are we to do?
I can tell you this. What we are doing now is only making things infinitely worse. And a big part of the problem is that we are all so disconnected from each other in our respective communities. Because we have this sense of organizational modality that says that dealing with any problem is simply paying to have somebody else take care of it for you. This does at least two very destructing things: 1. Taking care of the human problems in our own communities becomes a matter mostly of cost. And 2. It destroys any sense that we should connect as a community so that we can identify, and deal with things directly.
I also feel very strongly about this: If our jobs were the running of our own communities, making the effort to share the load across the spectrum of what has to be done each day (as we rotate through our selected list of tasks we do for however many weeks each month as citizens), we would be made more aware of desperate people before things had to get as crazy as they are now. And precisely because each community would need all of its citizens performing to the very best they are capable of performing, we would be naturally incentivized to make whatever practical/creative solutions are imaginations can come up with.
Setting this up, certainly, will not be easy. Even just adjusting to it for all of us used to the old way, will not be easy. The bottom line there, however, is that it is just too frigging bad. Again, in my opinion, if you want the species to survive, not to mention the planet itself, as well as as much of the current biodiversity that we can possibly save, then this is the only way we will be able to do the sort of pivot every new sentient species must make, if it is to survive. The pivot that turns them away from the only economics of evolutionary survival, to the new path of finding ever more meaning, a structure; all done living with the tension of balancing being both thoughtful, and loving.
Just think of this as another reminder of life trying to tell us "Change or die."
If it seems like the shootings are becoming more frequent, it might be because mass murder can catch on like an epidemic.
