If you haven’t heard about the bombing that took place in downtown Nashville yesterday, James’s post on it at Outside the Beltway should get you up to speed on what’s known about it at this point while this Twitter thread provides some pretty fair analysis.
I wanted to toss out a few speculations. It could be that the explosion was the work of a nutcase and its purpose will remain a mystery. The only rational explanation I can come up with is that it was a probing attack of communications infrastructure. If that’s the case we should expect more similar attacks that exploit what has been learned from this attack to make it even more effective.
Thoughts?
Ned more info. Am prepared for the possibility that like the Las Vegas Massacre, Sandy Hook etc may never get a full explanation other than bloviating.
Not enough info.
But as of the evening of 26 December, it’s looking like a performative suicide. I’ll guess (emphasis on guess) at this point it’s a result of depression and part and parcel of the atomization of society – not so much a cry for help, but an eff-you to a world that increasingly sees individuals as cogs inherently restricted by unchangeable attributes and poor choices.
Andy- I think the people you describe just kill themselves in a dramatic way at home or do suicide buy cop or something like that. I am thinking that he was a believer in some conspiracy or mad about a particular part of our world, probably at least tangentially related to communications. Social media/Twitter? 5G (I think there are a lot of conspiracies about that.)
Steve
Twitter thread states that the street was home to Nashville’s tourist district.
Anyone who owns a bankrupt restaurant on that street missing?