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In reply to the discussion: Chris Hedges - We have engineered the rage of the dispossessed (warning - may scare some) [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)even if they have enough to need to charge their phone in an airport lounge periodically. A wealthy alcoholic in the depths of real trouble comes to mind, even if they have money - still can be helpless and looking for something...
Here they were thuggish murderers. (a better label than that used in the newspapers, I think) but also with a wretched, unhappy human spirit, a spirit looking for solace. People confuse that with religion, and I don't mean it that way, but I think it is something that everyone has, and it can be nurtured, and it can be manipulated if it is weak. Other folks have more academic names for it, I'm pretty sure.
Bottoming out of that spirit is not always negative if there is something there to grab onto, and it can lead to amazing things. But it can lead to twisted, destructive behavior, such as a car wreck that wipes out a family, or what we just saw.
Lots of pain out there of all kinds. Maybe if some would try to take the edge off of it somehow, instead of continually poking at the wounds, we could ease this.