OUTLOOK: Is capitalism to blame for Montreal shootings?

by Actual News Geezer | September 15, 2006 at 09:03 am

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In the wake of hyper-violence, the finger-pointing begins.

Ineffective gun control laws in Canada. Violent video games. Goth websites.

And capitalism.

The following is a very interesting (and gruesome essay by Anneli Rufus, author of several books, including "Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto." It was posted online at AlertNet.

Read on.

"Capitalism creates monsters who want to kill you," Newitz contends. Our North American pop-culture murdering-machines and their real-life counterparts "tell us more or less explicitly," she writes, that "capitalist work implies a symbolic death. It is the death of individual freedom, of pleasurable, rewarding activity, and of a rich social life." Salaries spawn zombies. "Identity constructed under capitalism is a nightmare."