First up, DeWayne Craddock. Right now he’s Big News, because he went buggo and killed ~12 of his former co-workers in Virginia Beach. Since he shot them, this should be Big News for days or weeks. But like the recent Colorado school shooting (do you remember that? The news media sure seemed to forget it in a hurry), there are a few details about Mr. Craddock that make him problematic for the narrative.
NEXT DAY UPDATE: information on Mr. Craddock came out last night before midnight… name, photos, screenshots of social media posts, etc. He was no mystery when I made the original post. But due to a (presumably) cold virus deciding that today would be an excellent day to take up residence, I’ve spent much of the day in something of a haze of discomfort, plopped in front of the TV. Because illness sapped my enthusiasm for so much as changing the channel, the TV was on CNN most of the day. And I noticed something interesting:
1) Around noon CNN posted an infographic on the shooter with some basic info including name, but where there should have been a photo there was just a silhouette, as if CNN couldn’t find a picture of the man.
2) Around 2, one of the talking heads started discussing the shooter, but not only did they not show a photo, they announced that they wouldn’t be saying the shooters *name.*
It’s almost as if CNN thinks there might be something inconvenient about the shooter in this case.
But hey, that’s depressing. Instead, let’s all gaze in wide-eyed wonder at a type of crazy that’s probably not terribly dangerous, but is sure damned entertaining. Some NSFW language here and you have to get through a commercial, but it’s worth it.
The rise of this sort of whackadoodlism with, for a few generations, harm the western worlds ability to reproduce itself. But if (and, sadly, it’s a big “if”) we can get through it without dying out or being taken over, the gene pool and the *cultural* pool will be stronger for having gone through the winnowing. Who wins the future? Those who show up. And people like this are unlikely to contribute their genes to the future. Fortunately.