On Terror and Youth

In case you missed it:

A World of Jonestowns

We talk about the desperation of battle-trashed nations and what grows in their soil. But when I think of kids living in West Yorkshire going BOOM I think instead, man, even if no one else saw it there’s not just a lot of rage there, that’s a lot of self-hatred. That’s taking your self-hatred and making it really work for you, making sure you don’t waste your life that you suspect isn’t worth anything more than a few cents worth of blood and guts. Or that’s someone else tapping into your self-hatred and vulnerable 18-24 year old media sponge brain and making it work for them.

An insightful and tragic essay.