We are going through a mass psychosis with conservative brain defectives sensing the end is coming. It's a dead cat bounce as the CBD goes extinct. A global world of one humanity is emerging. The chrysalis is bursting.
I'd put it like this: there are at least two apocalyptic visions of extremists in the world at the moment. We have jihadists, and there are certain individuals or factions of evangelical folks eager for the "Rapture."
The jihadists are pushing the buttons of the Christian fundamentalists, who in turn buy in to the idea that this is a "Holy War" between Christian and Muslim. I'd already said it's a bad idea for getting the high-ground in the psychological battlefield to acknowledge any legitimacy to a holy war conception of this.
You don't want to fight the war defined by the extremist looney-toons. You want to define the conflict according to your own terms.
It just looks as though the jihadists are now copy-catting the domestic lunatics like Lanza and Holmes -- and Dear. That's pretty lame, if you ask me.
Also, somebody may have discounted my remark of a possibility that the Christmas party venue was significant. But it could be just so.
Christmas has always been an intersection between our religious life and secular holiday traditions. It's "Christian." But it was always common practice in offices -- government and private -- to hold a "holiday party." The one time in the year that I'd need to hail a cab to get home, with a lingering buzz-on from the egg-nog.
What better target would these amateur wannabe jihadists choose? The wife of a victim had noted her husband had engaged in exchanges with Farook in which he expressed frustration about "good Muslims" stepping up to the plate and denouncing the nut-cases.
It only bothers me that hardly a few weeks ago, here on the forums, I'd said that terrorists value big-city or high-value targets, and the Inland Empire -- a vast suburban sprawl -- has little in that regard. And now . . . the jihadists have "come home to roost."
So, as much as I don't want to make someone's light-bulb go on with a bad idea, the bad idea is probably already lit up.
In this episode of the "Grinch who stole Christmas," the Grinch doesn't seem funny. Pathetic? To me, perhaps. Does the public think these people are pathetic?
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