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February 18, 2008
Moonbat Blames NIU Massacre on "Horrors of Life in Middle America"
Posted by Dave Blount at February 18, 2008 6:58 AM
Rather than set aside his moonbat nastiness long enough to sympathize with the devastated Northern Illinois University community in the wake of the recent massacre, AlterNet leftist Mark Ames takes this opportunity to open fire on the school, using ammo collected by trolling message boards. By cherry-picking the anonymous comments of grouchy NIU alumni, Ames convinces himself that it is an "obviously-second-rate" school, which supports his theory that America itself is to blame:
This is relevant, because in a culture so obsessed with being number one, and where the socioeconomic gap between the Number Ones and Everyone Else is growing so wide that it's starting to take on medieval dimensions, it's the ones stuck in the vast middle who face real existential terror.
But it isn't just the stubborn unwillingness to succumb completely to socialism that makes America such a terrible place, it drives people to killing sprees. The Heartland is particularly awful:
[NIU killer Steven] Kazmierczak's hometown, Elk Grove Village, Illinois, is also revealing of the vast, flat middle of Middle America. Located on the edge of Chicago's hyper-busy O'Hare Airport, Elk Grove Village has a humble population of roughly 40,000 almost all-white middle-class citizens (mostly German and Polish stock), yet it hosts, as it proudly boasts, the largest consolidated business park in North America. Packed into its humble 5.4 square miles are 3,800 business, hosting over 100,000 workers servicing O'Hare Airport alone, and several Interstate highways servicing the wall-to-wall giant flat-roofed warehouse structures, corporate offices and, yes, suburban tract homes. […]
Scratching the surface of his life — a very familiar, flat sort of American Hell — makes his need for medications a bit more understandable, as is the case for the millions of Americans like him who take psychiatric medication. Indeed, someone who wouldn't turn to antidepressants would, in my opinion, be the sick one.
If we bracket his massacre as the work of an evil lunatic on drugs, we'll miss yet another opportunity to genuinely examine what life is like for most Americans today, who live in that terrifying gap between the official propaganda about a nation of happy fun-loving Number Ones, and the reality of mediocrity, petty malice, and a flat physical setting that reflects the malice and mediocrity of its town elders.
Once again, America is to blame. At least Ames deserves credit for not bringing the war in Iraq or global warming into his vicious little diatribe.
Hat tip: NewsBusters, on a tip from Cheetah.
