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Hours after posting his “massacre manifesto” on the YouTube website, a gunman presumed to be Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, walked into Jokela High School in southern Finland and shot dead five boys, two girls and the headmistress with a .22 calibre handgun. About a dozen more were wounded.

The shooting marked the arrival in peaceful small-town Finland of US-style high-school massacres, a phenomenon spurred by the internet and the isolation of a troubled teenager.

Tony:
One of the questions raised in the Batman comic is whether or not the
villains would exist if Batman existed.

I suppose one could ask whether these narcissistic fools would exist
if comics and movies depicting super villains existed.

That somehow relates to the whole freedom on the internet thing, and
whether regulations are needed.

This technology — it’s like Pandora’s Box opened. Great power and no
responsibility.

I don’t know anything about this kid … but I DO know he was able to
shoot a video and post it on YouTube. He is a connoisseur of modern
technology.

Damian:
I agree with everything you said, so I’m just thinking aloud now about this:

Spring Heeled Jack existed in the 1830’s in England.
In the 1930’s Hitler used the printing presses/MEDIA to spread evil
The Mad Bomber, 1940’s-1950’s in NY.

It could be that mentally ill people, who by their nature are prone to being anti-social, use whatever technology is available during their era. One could say that Jack and Bomber were influenced by folk tales and old time movie serials, respectively. Hitler/Goebbels may have been inspired by Lenin’s posters in Russia, but took it to an unprecedented level of propaganda.

I wonder when the Earth had a few million people, if there was a Neanderthal man who vandalized the cave drawings, or killed kids with a stone while they slept. If YES, it means it’s in our genetic code, and the technology is just “copy and paste” from one era to the next. If NO, it could mean that this 6.6 billion people Earth we currently live in:

1) may be prone to more variances of genetic defects/illnesses/difficulty to judge right from wrong
2) is different than the past because it has a technology where the spread of ideas and innovative ways for violence and sex is instantaneous.

What makes humanity unique is that children are born into the “cumulative” society, where they thankfully don’t have to build civilization from scratch each time, and the stories, myths, books, movies, music, religions, habits, social norms, etc. are passed and taught from one generation to another (although some things become forgotten).

Where LME comes into play: terrorists using Google Earth for targets, blogs used for manifestos, cell phone videos capturing sex in the high school classrooms, Youtube used for everything, illegal file sharing and bootlegging becoming social acceptable, instant porn or gay men who will meet you one-two clicks away, etc.

Since technology itself, like money, is not evil on its own, the people have to be held responsible, but they are not since we live in LMEarth. By people, I mean the creators of the technology [generally for the motivation of making a profit, under the guise of the thrill of invention or knowing the unknowable to benefit mankind], and the powers-that-be who make the decisions about marketing and producing the product. Since Joe Public is a sheep, he shouldn’t have the right to think and choose on his own for such technologies, because Joe Public is doing a bad job “self-regulating” craigslist and youtube, among other decisions. Back in the day, the fear of God/religion was used to control Joe Public to stop him from committing unhealthy acts (farm animals). In today’s era, religion/God has been *generally* “exposed” for a while, almost like how wrestling or Santa Claus has been exposed. So the fear of Hell is not truly there for Joe Public, and Joe Public doesn’t want to HEAR about going to Hell, which has been downgraded to a cartoon world, like South Park or when Woody Woodpecker when to “Hell” and pecked Satan’s butt.

Finally- the motivation for technology thousands of years ago was 1) survival 2) protection 3) conquering 4) efficiency, and 5)luxury; whereas TODAY, the big corporations just focus on LUXURY (Hummers, electronics, I-Phone, PS3, Google/Microsoft/Yahoo data/information wars, digital flat screen TV, satellite radio, etc.) under the front of “efficiency/survival/protection” since most of the basic stuff has apparently already been made- the cumulative history/world we live in.

My problem with our government using billions to fund a war is that perhaps that money could have been used to advance technology that could focus on our survival and protection, like weather control to help drought or something that can weaken a hurricane, or ways to cure major diseases. It seems like the Christian-Right (just to pick on someone) who are against us “playing God” with stem cells and nature are okay with their non-energy efficient homes, soccer-mom SUVs, eating out every night because no one has “time” to “make” food (uhm…microwave, anyone?), etc.

Tony:

Excellent job thinking out loud!

I hate to say this, but there needs to be more regulation, or at the very least, more done to prevent what is happening.

The ISP’s are the gatekeepers — they need to control the information superhighway. Government should, uh, motivate them.

Every day you look at Craigslist, you see the Mad Bombers of our current generation, dealing with their Oedipus Complex (Thank you, Dr. Brussels) in the most deranged fashion possible.

The internet seems to allow for more mentally deranged fools gaining access to fulfilling their twisted desires.

In regards to the copy and paste genetic code thing: we do know that, basically, the same nine Enneagram personality types repeat, over and over and over, with variations for levels of mental, physical, and spiritual health. That theme will continue to be explored in the Dream Seeker Universe.