Wow.

Wow. Two (confirmed) bombs explode at the #BostonMarathon and at least one that has been found unexploded (according to various news sources). 

This is amazing and tragic at the same time: amazing that, in the aftermath of 9/11 and all the rights we've lost to the war on terror that a person or people can still create and carry explosives to attack innocent bystanders; and tragic for the lives lost, the sense of security lost and the the repercussions of this event.

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The culprit will be a "Homegrown Terrorist", a loner who played lots of video games and had radical hatred for the Government, prompting the necessity of suspicion of all U.S. Citizens.

Also, I expect a few more of these events.
Isaac Campos said…
Allen Hildebrandt videogames have no place in this
Isaac Campos And yet they're always brought up in events like this.
Isaac Campos said…
Allen Hildebrandt because people need to find something to put the blame on. Blaming videogames is like blaming Hot Wheels for car accidents.
Isaac Campos It's not about who people want to blame, it's about the Narrative.  This narrative is pushes to the people, as are the other narratives.  The news tells them what to believe and whom to blame, and the weak minded run with it.
Jason ON said…
Information control.
Isaac Campos said…
Allen Hildebrandt you have a point, sadly that's the way it goes...
Jason ON Precisely.  I no longer trust events like this... as just being accidents.  If they are committed by people not in the narrative, it will be utilized for the narrative... so whether it was orchestrated or accidental, it doesn't matter, because it serves the purposes of the Narrative.
Jason ON said…
I no longer trust government briefings and instead rely on investigative journalism (which typically takes days or weeks to produce).

You're right, Allen Hildebrandt, he who controls the narrative controls everything. The government can pretty much blame it on anyone they want now and then claim the source for their determination is top secret and we'll never know, or not know for years.

Heck, some people still believe Bush's lies about Iraq prompting our 2003 invasion even thought Bush admitted there was no correlation between al-Qaeda and Iraq and multiple sources have given light to the lies.
It did occur to me just now that an alternative potential for the Narrative is Korean infiltrators, as it might serve the current drum sounding...

But I mostly expect my first speculative scenario.
Jason ON said…
I thought NK before al-Qaeda as a scapegoat. Time will tell.
Isaac Campos video games are chosen by tomorrow's terrorists because it trains them in using a gun. as well, it helps replace a reality that is not to their liking, the reality we face bravely day by day.

for a home grown terrorist is so conservative that everyone is the enemy.

social isolation breeds such people, even it's your grandmother being the neighbourhood gossip.
Isaac Campos said…
Radha Santadharma you are so misinformed and judgemental but I don't want to argue about this.
video games were played by marc lepine, the dawson college at montreal shooter, and the columbine shooting.  it is known that social isolation is a key factor as even the sandy hook shooter suffered from it.

you've already judged me. i never made such a call on anyone yet.
Isaac Campos said…
Radha Santadharma playing videogames is mainstream nowadays, everyone plays videogames, you cannot associate unless you have a high grade study that at least shows some evidence about it.

I've played bloody and violent videogames my entire life since I was a kid and you will never see me even killing a mouse.

You can't blame videogames, you can blame bullying and lack of attention and the like.
Radha Santadharma Most people playing videogames tend to be doing it in isolation at their home.  A lot of them do tend to be socially awkward, or loners, due to having grown up with the geek stigma.

This does not make them killers.  This is what is called a "False Correlation" in logic.
Isaac Campos said…
Allen Hildebrandt thank you.
Marla Caldwell said…
While playing video games solo is perfectly commonplace, ordinary, unremarkable, it would not surprise me if terrorists tended to be toward the outsides of the bell curve, that is to say, that they spend more or fewer hours playing video than the average by significant degree.
actually the examples i gave, from lepine to gill to the columbine shooters, played more hours than you or I until they confused reality for fantasy, and fantasy for reality.

obviously you people never spend that much time on the computers.
Apparently, Radha Santadharma doesn't know at least some of us very well.
Isaac Campos said…
Sorry Radha Santadharma you have no arguments in this matter.
i never said video game use causes mental health issues that result in terrorism and killings. I agree with Alice Cabrera that the issues have to be latent prior to video game use.

My point is video game use leads to changes in behavior specifically loss of sleep.  If you lose more than half your normal average of sleep, then your mental faculties will be impaired no matter how much caffeine you drink.

Insomnia is too a symptom that begins with basic fears and anxieties which often have anger as the root issue. Thus it is anger and fear which are the root of insomnia and the descent into hypomania, mania and psychosis IF the root issues are never addressed.

Most people cannot stand losing sleep. After 16 hours, their behavior does change and includes hallucinations.  After 24 hours, without dealing with them, a person will develop anxiety and the first signs of psychosis.

The only cure for this is sleep.  This is why most antipsychotic medication are nothing more than sedatives, be it thorazine, seroquel or abilify.

A mentally ill person needs more rest than a normal person.  Computers and mental illness do not mix.  This was proven in Lepine's case; Gill's and possibly even Cho's.

Anyway, I have stated only opinion. I take no responsibility for anyone misunderstanding  what I have written, as it is up to each of us to transcend the usual gut reaction to what I have presented.
Pretty sure most people are awake for 16 hours straight, Radha Santadharma , since that leaves 8 hours of sleep.

Hallucinations usually set in after between 36 and 42 hours without Rapid Eye Movement (REM).

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