Each shooting supplants the previous one almost completely in media attention, memory and public discussion and we act as if it has been the only one. With the Texas church massacre, we have already lost sight of Las Vegas, and so on and so on. We act as if each of these incidents should be analyzed in its own terms. In so doing, no one asks why this has become nearly a weekly occurrence in the US and what the meaning of or explanation for the underlying generic phenomenon might be.

‘…Just when we thought we’d gotten rid of our fear of sharks, this behind-the-scenes footage of “Blue Planet II” pops up…’

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‘All six of the perpetrators of the deadliest mass shootings of the last five years had brushes with domestic abuse or violence against women in their past…’

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