Just Like the Rest of Us

THE MORE WE LEARN about the boston marathon massacre the spookier, eerier, yet somehow more strangely familiar it all seems. The two russian kids have turned out to be more american than russian. And they have turned out to be much like the rest of us, very "normal".

WE're used to the carnage by now, of course. It happens too often for us not to be innured to it, to an extent. We are reminded that weapons can be anything other than a gun. And that in modern america, violence is random, frequent, and deadly.

What's amazing is the testimony of the people who knew these brothers best. By all indications, they were so normal as to be beyond even remote consideration as mass murderers. Pleasant, quiet, friendly...normal... just reagular guys. Whatever darkness lay within, it lay deep.

And so it makes you wodner what lay deep within the rest of us. So often the serial killer is comebody nobody would ever have suspected. Somebody whom you would never even think capable of murder.

These two newest enignatic murderers never would have been denied a gun permit based on any  personal history or psychological profile. They are just like the rest of us. And so you can't help but wonder what lives deep within the rest of us, and next time, who from among us will emerge as the next mass murderer.

when they finally caught the younger brother after a lengthy dramatic pursuit, the entire nation (U.S.of Advertising) paid rapt attention. After all, that's what its all about, isn't it? Who knows how many suspects will be cornered next time, or what kind of ratings they'll get...