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Back to the point of the thread.
I figure the obsession with Columbine has to do with our absurd romantic obsession with the near-heroic status that disaffected youth have in our media-soaked society. There are so many instances where alienated and proto-violent young people are held up to be some sort of paragon of cool that many have a knee-jerk emotional affection for the stereotype. Many immature young people identify with this sociopathological pseudo-identity.
Of course it is to their detriment. And it is our loss.
As long as the purveyors of popular culture continue to profit from producing a constant stream of such figures for the consumption of young and impressionable minds, these obsessions will continue. And the pathetic pair of Columbine killers will be dredged up as something we should be paying attention to.
Personally, I have come to loathe this stereotype for what it is - a cheap and manipulative attempt to popularize losers and another example of how a corrupt cultural hegemony profits by appealing to the lowest common denominators of human behavior.
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