Normalcy, Returning En Mass

 THE YOUNG "GENTLEMAN" who blew eight "ladies" away swore up and down in an "interview" that he wasn't racially motivated, that he was sexually motivated. That's one way to solve an addiction; eliminate the drug. Case closed. The criminal's explanation is adequate. Why would he lie? He's the expert. Crusaders against racially motivated hate crimes are understandably disappointed. They expected more. With everyone isolated during the pandemic, mass gatherings, therefore mass murders had become sparse; the entertainment media beast had become hungry, and must be fed. A sexually motivated mass murderer should be sufficient, and in a civilized country would be, but since everything in American media is sexually motivated, why not just call it a race hate crime, and call it even? With the pandemic losing steam and nearing the final curtain, something vaguely approaching normalcy is returning, and with it old habits, and we once again will be regaled with right wing gun rights pyscho mass murder, served up on a regular basis, compliments of our national far right wing guns n' violence industrial complex. Epidemics, much like mass murderers, knowing that they are going out, like to go out with a bang. the final bullet to the final head, one more big pool party during spring break to share share alike, virally. In all cases they are aided and abetted by the large mainstream culture, which, after all, nurtures the context.The more passionately our latest mass murderer insists that he is not a racist, but merely a sex addict, the more vehemently the culture, wanting another scapegoat to take the blame for its own  pervasive prejudices, will insist that he is we are all, after all, sociologists at heart, with an explanation for everyone's behavior except our own. He must have been a racist during the moment he pulled the trigger, if at no other time; no other explanation conforms neatly to out preconceptions. The more passionately proponents of gun control engage in activism, the more the conservative gun owners will insist that guns have nothing to do with it, guns are quite beside the point, the killers could just as easily use scissors or ball bats. We will all draw our conclusions predicated upon our own biases and ignorances, but certainly not upon facts and dispassionate reason. we are, at the end of the day as we like to say, creatures of free will, hell bent on defending our freedom to explain the violence of others in our own terms, and to spread viruses at will, for the sake of freedom.