> As an educator in today's world, you go there in your mind. You think, 'What if? What am I going to do if that becomes reality?'
Continuing to engage with the memetic virus in such a way will all but guarantee it becomes reality. Not only do I think technological solutions won't really be much of a solution, I worry that engaging like that only makes it more likely. As a thought experiment, I wonder what would happen if we just collectively more-or-less ignored such events, as a society. Two line sanitized blurb in the papers. Detached 30 second report on the news. Never talk about the accused in detail. If their motive is some twisted sense of revenge or attention, and I think it often is, wouldn't that be a major deterrent? A big collective shrug. Like a train derailment. Awful, but also emotionally flat, really. Sorrow, yes, but rarely anger or particularized fear. The way we do it now? Enact your revenge on society and your face will be everywhere, the most hated man in the country, for a few minutes anyway. Changing policy in fear? Continually accommodating it as if they are a force of nature we must structure society around? It's practically a reward.
