OK.
There are a lot of posts of this sort, "this stuff won't cause a normal person whose parents were paragons of parenting to kill," etc.
That's not the point. Neither is the point something like, "I use this stuff and it doesn't destroy my mind."
That's great if your are superhuman and can resist the thing I'm trying to pin down. But what you're not addressing is the degree to which sociopathological messages have an influence on us all.
The last several entries in
my journal are an attempt to sketch out the situation as I see it generally operating in all our lives.
The discussion of this is great - don't get me wrong. It would be even greater if we could get past polarized positions to a common ground in which we could discuss the effects of popular culture on us all. Maybe it's time for a new thread.