In the emerging post-COVID era. I'm seeing signs of Mr. Steward's 2nd-Kill" in action around this country. Routine mass shootings across the country.
The NYT sez,...509 murdered to date in NYC. People have since been murdered in the park where I took those lovely Spring pictures above. A trend.
I'm sure social scientists are even now spilling digital ink on papers to be published about this. For now we just have the raw statistics. Basically we take our lives into our hands by going out the door. Once from a virus, and now from survivors.
As a friend of mine sez, "...life is like science fiction."
Uneven fonts...blogsplot.
ReplyDelete"I am now convinced that the deprivation of physical sensory pleasure is the principal root cause of violence. Laboratory experiments with animals show that pleasure and violence have a reciprocal relationship, that is, the presence of the one inhibits the other. A raging violent animal will abruptly calm down when electrodes stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain. Likewise, stimulating the violence centers in the brain can terminate the animal's sensual pleasure and peaceful behavior. When the brain's pleasure circuits are 'on,' the violence circuits are 'off,' and vice versa. Among human beings, a pleasure-prone personality rarely displays violence or aggressive behaviors, and a violent personality has little ability to tolerate, experience or enjoy sensuously pleasing activities. As either violence or pleasure goes up, the other goes down."
ReplyDelete- James W. Prescott, Neuropsychologist
Pretty much.
ReplyDeleteI no longer go to supermarket which is a long walk.
As I think I mentioned gun shots are again a normal sound at night...been many years since. Day time as well...not constant, but it happens. It's like the early 1990's again.
In 1993 3000 people were murdered in NYC...who know how many injured. I think 2021 will give that prize a run for it's money. Death remains in business here Pandemic or not.