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The Sanity Squad
April 18, 2007 2:00 PM
Sanity Squad: What Went Wrong at Virginia Tech?Recorded on the evening of 4/16/07, the Sanity Squad looks at the immediate aftermath of the murder of 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech. Why do these horrifying events, that in the past would have remained in the realm of the unthinkable, seem so commonplace today?
Listen to this podcast (33:47) or download (32.4 MB) The Sanity Squad - What Went Wrong at Virginia Tech. Free show subscription available at iTunes.
The Sanity Squad - What Went Wrong at Virginia Tech
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May I suggest that the celebration of 'victimhood' by Christians and Jews, or of 'humiliationhood' by Muslims, is grounded in the ubiquity of the pagan religious doctrine that "sacrifice is a virtue," handed down from pre-historical societies (remember Freud's "Totem and Taboo") and made famous by Abraham's willingness to slaughter his son as a test of monotheistic faith (the Eid Festival in Islam, Christ on the Cross in Christianity).
William James once wrote that the grounding of human nature is our "craving for appreciation." The loss of approval is an extraordinarily strong motivator of self-destructive or deadly behavior which is seeking to find that lost 'appreciation.'
Finally, in a determinist world-view, add some form of stasis as an idealism ("purity," in the case of the puritanical Virginia Tech killer), and the mixture becomes toxic. When in an ideology, the combination of determinism, idealism, and stasis forms a homicidal/suicidal toxin (for example, Nazism, Fascism, Marxism, Jihadism are all ideologies which share all three features).
Great podcast, as usual.
Apr 19, 2007 06:07 PM