But the normalization of bad things is more than just welcomed. Today Bush was welcomed with open arms by Obama and the press corp at the White House, as if he was fucking MLK...with a glowing painting unveiled.
We have our government using children's show songs as part of their programming torture of detainees and convincing a large portion of the "leftists" that the near daily destruction of Muslims in Pakistan/Yemen/Somalia is a good thing. When the government coverups up mass suicide rates of vets(or when vets come back and do horrible, horrible things) well...dont look at that.
You look at the increasingly horrific level of brutality in recent films(Drive, Human Centipede series, Serbian Film, Snowtown, Kill List)
And you have some of the most horrific and frightening violence on the planet happening just a couple miles from the Texas border, en masse, in Mexico where children have become accustomed
to walking to school and seeing dismembered corpses. Mankind has seen this stuff since the dawn of early pre-man.
But where this normalization of horror seems to take a modern turn is in the advent of this 24-hour social media twitter Truman show panopticon. "We are the ones we are waiting for" was Obama's slogan in 2008...in reality, its more like "We are the ones we are watching". Maybe it's having just re-read William Gibson's brilliant post 9/11 mystery "Pattern Recognition" about a
cryptic video that goes viral online...but perhaps we're witnessing another level of whatever *this is*
I say this because I was genuinely shocked by the headline news regarding that Magnotta character. And I really shouldn't be. I couldn't even make it through a couple minutes of the online documentary showing the human aftermath of Obama's near daily drone attacks. But just reading one of the articles on CNN about this was bone chilling
From that other thread, this guy seeded the internet with cryptic videos and postings much like Breivik and the Safeway Giffords shooter did. His apparent serial killer dating-animal killing-cross dressing-porn-occult side would be odd enough even before the posting of snuff videos and mailing body parts to major political party headquarters. From the comments you guys had in the other thread, it seems like this nut is creating some sort of Alternate Reality Game for the online age.
Terrorism no longer shocks. Zeta cartel crimes? Passe. As glimpsed in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, it seems like society almost seems ready made for the advent of the media saavy psycho killer. Just look at Anders Breivik, mugging for the camera. This Luka, one big ARG game that sadly people eat up. In an era where would be serial killers can find willing victims in underground chat rooms, I sadly feel the rubicon has long been crossed. Like the guy giving thumbs up after that ghastly scene in "Irreversible", all horror these days is tailor made for people's online comments.
We're truly reaching a new low in soul shattering sickness I'm afraid.
