Really Good piece on 60 minutes about Jared Loughner.

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Hello, Jan 17, 2011.

  1. Hello

    Hello

    Secret service talks about what causes these guys go crazy and how it generally has little or nothing to do with any kind of political motivation, it includes some interviews with some of the guys who were friends with him. The piece somewhat puts together the pieces on his life in the years leading up to the shooting.

    They talk about how the movie "waking life" was his favourite movie, i remember watching the movie on mushrooms about 10 years ago when it first came out. :D
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  2. Ricter

    Ricter

    That is good. Fascinating how nihilism was mentioned; clearly he was not nihilistic enough. Did existential anxiety drive him to insanity, or did insanity give him existential anxiety?
     
  3. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    what's with you today? are you lying on a therapy couch with your Freud glasses on or something? did you watch too much Frasier this weekend?
     
  4. Hello

    Hello

    I could go to wikipedia, and try to figure out the answer to that, but i dont think it would do your question any justice. :D
     
  5. Is this the first time you have ever heard about mental illness or are you just high?
     
  6. Ricter

    Ricter

    Lol, I'll have to look at my other replies today to see what you mean. But, yes, I have been reading in the existential psychoanalytic, and straight existential lines lately. : )
     
  7. Funny how it a was all about politics when they thought he was a tea bagger. Now that we know he is just your typical Bush hater we can say with authority that politics don't matter.
     
  8. Precisely...

     
  9. How many conservatives here are really surprised that the left will go to any extreme and any lame excuse to silence their detractors at every opportunity?


    I have no doubt if not for their limited power the American left would be every bit as vicious as former socialist utopias (nazi germany, soviet union, red china).
     
  10. +1

     
    #10     Jan 18, 2011