I Am a Deep Thinker

When bad things happen, people always want someone to blame. Some group or individual that can be the sole cause of what happened. They feel angry, and want a target for their anger.

It's like when school shootings happen, and people blame some music artist or genre for being a bad influence on kids. If the shooting is Marilyn Manson's fault, then that absolves them of any blame for themselves. They don't have to look at their own role in shaping the society that produced the shooters. They don't have to look at their own lackluster efforts to do anything about the rampant bullying plaguing our schools, or how easy it would be to end that bullying by lobbying for the same zero tolerance policy on bullying in schools that we have on violence in schools.

They don't have to look at their own thoughtless parenting practices. They don't have to look at all the times when they took the easy path with their kids, instead of the right path. They don't have to look at the bad role modeling they do in front of their kids when they yell at each other without restraint. They don't have to look at the hypocrisy of demanding discipline from their kids even while they fail to practice discipline in their own lives. They don't have to look at any of that stuff - because it's all Marilyn Manson's fault.