I will note two things about the Aurora shooting: the merger of real life killing sprees with our entertainment industry, is, I find, a troubling indicator. The Dark Knight theater audience thought the gunman was a promotional stunt, just as the Virginia Tech shooter knew that television would perpetuate his legacy. I am not sure how we cure this rather peculiar American disease; it is not an issue of censorship, but one of boundary. I have written it before, and now I am writing it again: Targets, despite its dated technical applications, was eerily prophetic about how mental illness and the mass media would engage in the contemporary era.
Now I will restore my commiseration, and offer citizens of Denver my condolences. This has kinda put a damper on my desire to head toward a younger and more dynamic western metropolis.
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