I’ve just read the third story in as many days of people murdering other people in imitation of dystopian graphic novels, TV programs, or movies.
I realize that in a country as large as ours there are bound to be a certain number of maniacs, that we’ve got a 24 hour news cycle, and “if it bleeds it leads”.
But has the world gone mad?
Nah, we just hear about it more. For proof, HH Holmes or Albert Fish, old news paper accounts of “indignities decorum forbids repeating” at murder scenes of street urchins, etc.
Now have we gotten softer, less willing to recognize, life can be nasty, brutal and mercifully short, I think so.