As prophesysed by Queen in the 1980s, and horrifically enacted in the 1990s, another angry young man has physically projected his hatred with a sigg-sauer into the world: Killing people.Sadly as it is, this would not be something unsuspected or unusual in the US.
But this time it happened in Finland.
Luckily his efforts were not as fatal as they might have been: 9 people were killed including the perpetrator. Of the available 500 rounds he fired 69 shots alltogether - and his attempts to ignite an accelerator were in vain. Luckily for his sourroundings, that he was not able to achieve the heroic quality of his virtual self-representation in youtube. In a way, concluding being a very tragic anti-hero.
"Oh, it's all these damn video games" some unknowledgeable people will conclude - or they blame "the internet" and user generated content portals like youtube - and will call for stricter control.
But videogames or internet activities do not kill. It is people with guns and without clear mind.
How can it be, that a 18 year old European is in possession of a handgun?
On the contrary, means of new media in the hands of committed people do not just produce berserk-raging madness, as the yellow press so bravely continious to put foreward (fearsome of a big shift in customer patterns of information retrieval). The virtual worlds & works may prove to be THE hunting ground for adolescents to explore possibilities for being, connect to alikes and work on projects - e.g. elaborating their phantasies of omnipotence and futility.
"Captain Pirk" - on the contrary - is a prime example for such efforts !
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