Most smart people believe society is insane

JOKELA, FI (N3) - Normal, functional members of society agree with the statements of Jokela shooter Pekka-Eric Auvinonen, although most condemn his actions. "People believe society is screwed up," said CORRUPT agitactivist Olli Herjata, "and they see how his words have been censored, and think that any society which cannot accept valid criticism from an invalid source will not last long."

When CORRUPT released statements supporting the shooter, they were among the first, and were misunderstood in that they offered no moralization on his actions, but pointed out repeatedly that his criticisms of society were valid. "We're not looking for Utopia," Herjata said. "We believe our current society is headed toward a slow doom of devolution, and we prefer a society that's rising, making beautiful things, and in which it's fun and not so utilitarian to live. Utilitarianism, capitalism, and school shootings are all symptoms of our lack of direction and our tolerance for morons."

Normal people agree. As one writer on Facebook, which has now deleted four groups praising the Jokela shooter Pekka-Eric Auvinen, said, "Most people can't understand his reasoning beyond their pure emotional reaction. Instead of seeing that things are wrong on a society-wide scale, they focus on the inane non-issues like gun control, wondering all the time why school shootings continue to propagate as their infantile efforts come to nothing."

Another person added, "This tragedy needs to be viewed in the larger context of our insane society which produces this
destruction rather than isolating it down to an individual and claim he was just a psychopath." Others opined that while Auvinen's behavior was psychotic, it was a response to a truthful perception, much like the over-eager Americans who beat up Muslims after the 9/11 attacks. "Wrong method, right concept!" said one.

Despite years of attempts by churches, governments and political organizations to encourage denial, more people are realizing that Western society has for the last few hundred years been founded upon a negative principle, one in which the individual is placed above reality. This behavior, a form of cognitive dissonance, is common in human situations where authority is required but is inconvenient of the majority of people, most of whom cannot think ahead more than two weeks and so will gladly consume today what they will need in the future, and then blame others.

Many before Pekka-Eric Auvinen noted this tendency, including the great philosophers Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, who pointed out that without a connection to some shared ideal that is greater than the individual, human societies collapse into individualism -- a fancy word for "selfishness." Societies that decline tend to become more unstable and less reliable, while they drive to suicide anyone who can see the error of their path, and eventually devolve into third-world republics with average IQs of 89-94 points and no interesting future at all.

You can help make sure the victims of Jokela, and the shooter, are not forgotten, by acting on the message we've received from this event instead of ignoring it. To blame gun control, or a lone individual, for a problem that is so pervasive it happens worldwide, is madness. Our society has corrupted itself and is now of a bad design, and we need to fix that design before the collapse deepens. For more information, see www.corrupt.org.