We do not want to think about its negative underbelly. We are proud of the positive and material things our culture produces. We are all in it together-whether we like it or not. Most Americans do not realize the intimate connections between society's 'horrific weirdness' and themselves (i.e., the culture) instead, they should ask themselves the question 'Is this society, somehow, feeding its own self-hatred-and if so how?' 5/ These are things that most Americans don't want to think about, since they believe that they only concern 'weirdoes' who should be neutralized: i.e., locked away for life or terminated. This means a genuine public mental health policy, which, fundamentally, is a political question, since it involves the relations between medicine, public policy, and money, i.e., socio-politics. Of course there are solutions, but they are very difficult and painful and imply sacrifices: re-examination, acknowledgment of errors and shortcomings followed by changes to the social environment, and the re-allocation of resources. Of course there are answers, but not necessarily the ones we want to hear. We always want there to be a solution, and there is never one of those, either.' /4/ Lack of interpretability As Neely Tucker wrote, 'We always want there to be an answer, except there never is. This 'cryptic message' doesn't express what we are used to deciphering, and too often we refuse to surrender: its thoughtlessness is unyielding, uncompromising, 'far-out.' It does not translate as such. 3/ This is why mass killers create an enigma, since the text that their 'writing' tragically traces on the body of society obeys a different logic. 2/ When interviewed by the media even 'experts' lose their edge. Mass murders and serial killings inscribe on the social body a sort of metaphorical writing that tends to a zero degree of sense. Society is then left dangling and open as to what to do since nobody knows exactly why they did it. With such killings, people experience a suspension of meaning, a retreat and suspension of speculative thinking, accompanied by extreme anger or a quasi-fatalist acceptance of the type 'human nature is fundamentally flawed'-which ultimately brings about a re-injection of 'evil' as the ultimate explanation, pre-empting all others. This revolted befuddlement adds to the dramatic dimension of the act, to its fascination. Mass murders and serial killers generally provoke in society horror and hatred, an anxious incomprehension or angry bewilderment-each feeding into the other. There's certainly a violence of indifference.' /1/ The term indifference might appear flat, but it can also enter into an incandescent state.

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