... when we so obviously fail to comprehend how awash we are in "normal" disorders and suboptimal behavior, and how such a context contaminates each of us. Indeed, I often think that getting the "proper" label is merely an excuse for filing yet another horror away in the memory bucket, only to be retrieved in a perverse kind of nostalgia as circumstances warrant.
As I sit back (as an outsider?) and observe human behavior, I find it noteworthy that the media spiel and assoiciated rhetoric is remarkably different as we see a nice, white boy ("honor student"
instead of a person of color. It'd be interesting to see comparative word clouds.
I remember, back in 1989, on the eve of Ted Bundy's execution, the comment of one older "woman on the street": "It's a shame to have to put such a nice-looking young man to death." Somehow, that said it all.
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