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posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @04:18PM   Printer-friendly

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/554976369/section-of-las-vegas-strip-is-closed-after-music-festival-shooting

A gunman fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night, in a brutal attack that is blamed for at least 58 deaths, police say. In the mass shooting and panic that ensued, 515 people were injured. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.

Editorializing: Interesting how media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists, but downplay domestic terrorism as psychologically disturbed individual lone-wolfs.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @07:30PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @07:30PM (#576121)

    Wow, I never thought about it quite like that, but the phrase "law is technology" is really apt. I've always just considered it an artificial construct of society, but that is too nebulous. Technology is a term most people will immediately understand.

  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday October 02 2017, @08:47PM (8 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Monday October 02 2017, @08:47PM (#576181)

    It isn't just law. Civilization and society are also a "technology" but are also like biology in that they are subject to variation and natural selection. Which is why some of us believe in conserving / restoring Western Civilization and only allowing small changes with sufficient time to observe and correct mistakes. We believe that we don't understand WHY our civilization works better than the others, only that it does / did. We believe that our current knowledge of social dynamics is insufficient to allow wholesale planned redesigns and that this explains most of the current ills of the modern world.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 02 2017, @09:19PM (2 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday October 02 2017, @09:19PM (#576204) Journal

      Define "western society." Specify time period. Hint: we have words like "Senate" for a reason.

      And for fuck's sake, take a beta blocker or something. Your overactive amygdala is turning you into a reactionary, not a conservative; you're railing against the reality of the modern world, not "non-Western civilization." Update your firmware or wipe your drive.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @11:13PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @11:13PM (#576296)

      Aww, and you were doing so well for a little bit! Guess you really are just 1 part normal, 3 parts weird, and 10 parts crazy.

      Western civilization doesn't work much better than any others, but it sure did get a leg up with the industrial revolution and the takeover of North America. WWII knocked everyone on their ass except the US, and the US had a shockingly huge amount of natural resources.

      Basically Western Civilization had some good ideological points and the capitalist economy was well suited for exploitation of natural resources. We are currently seeing the limits of Western society, the primary limit being the unbounded capacity to support human greed.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:55AM (2 children)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:55AM (#576340) Journal

        We are currently seeing the limits of Western society, the primary limit being the unbounded capacity to support human greed.

        Sounds like some cognitive dissonance. Somehow unbounded capacity is now a limit. What better sort of society has a larger capacity to support human greed than this "unbounded" one? The societies that can handle human greed are far superior to the ones that can't.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:06PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:06PM (#576703)

          Metaphors strain your brain, yeah I get it you have high functioning whateverism. It gives you some pretty incredible focus, but a better analogy is a horse with blinders on.

          • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 03 2017, @08:32PM

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 03 2017, @08:32PM (#576761) Journal

            Metaphors

            Right. The creator of a metaphor is not the only one who can exploit it.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:47AM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:47AM (#576367) Homepage Journal

        Nah, the primary down side of Western society is that when life becomes too easy people start turning into whiny little bitches who want everything done for them.

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