{"id":65154,"date":"2017-11-20T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65154"},"modified":"2017-11-19T20:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T02:58:24","slug":"if-everyone-else-jumps-off-a-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65154","title":{"rendered":"If Everyone Else Jumps Off A Cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturation coverage of spree killings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-not-to-cover-mass-shootings-1510939088?mod=e2fb\">yields more spree killings<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though we seem to be plunging ever deeper into a dark night, researchers now have a far clearer view of a key factor in the violence. A long-standing theory has matured into a body of evidence that can no longer be dismissed: The level of attention paid to mass shootings is central to why they keep happening.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that some crimes might be self-spreading, like a disease, was proposed as early as 1890, when the French sociologist Gabriel Tarde labeled murders copying Jack the Ripper \u201csuggesto-imitative assaults.\u201d For mass shootings, the effect was well known among researchers by the early 2000s, when a wealth of information allowed forensic psychiatrist Paul E. Mullen to conclude, \u201cThese massacres are acts of mimesis, and their perpetrators are imitators.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After Columbine, researchers discovered that spree killers (as distinct from terrorists) were seeking immortality.<\/p>\n<p>Who grants immortality in our society?<\/p>\n<p>How many 35 year olds today, outside of entertainment and professional sports, are more famous than Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturation coverage of spree killings yields more spree killings: Though we seem to be plunging ever deeper into a dark night, researchers now have a far clearer view of a key factor in the violence. A long-standing theory has matured into a body of evidence that can no longer be dismissed: The level of attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65155,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65154\/revisions\/65155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}