{"id":12266,"date":"2018-04-02T15:54:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T07:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=12266"},"modified":"2018-04-02T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T07:54:33","slug":"skinwalkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2018\/04\/02\/skinwalkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Skinwalkers: mass shootings are nihilistic acts of disaffiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Writing this post because I&#8217;m cleaning out my bookmarks in one-tab and realizing that I&#8217;ve mentioned Skinwalkers in several different conversations).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/year-of-books\/notes-from-tribes-3e810bf2bf66\">https:\/\/medium.com\/year-of-books\/notes-from-tribes-3e810bf2bf66\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/texthistory.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/01\/junger-on-mass-killings\/\">https:\/\/texthistory.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/01\/junger-on-mass-killings\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;act of disaffiliation&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;indiscriminate attacks almost always occur in otherwise safe, predominantly white towns&#8221; &#8220;gang shootings \u2013 as indiscriminate as they often are \u2013 still don&#8217;t have the nihilistic intent of rampages. They are rooted in an exceedingly strong sense of group loyalty and revenge&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;murder and mayhem committed by an individual who has rejected all social bonds and attacks people at their most vulnerable and unprepared&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel it&#39;s warmth.\u201d \u2014 African proverb.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; boqor riya. (@hausofriya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hausofriya\/status\/968580438850723840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Writing this post because I&#8217;m cleaning out my bookmarks in one-tab and realizing that I&#8217;ve mentioned Skinwalkers in several different conversations). https:\/\/medium.com\/year-of-books\/notes-from-tribes-3e810bf2bf66\u00a0 https:\/\/texthistory.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/01\/junger-on-mass-killings\/\u00a0 &#8220;act of disaffiliation&#8221; &#8220;indiscriminate attacks almost always occur in otherwise safe, predominantly white towns&#8221; &#8220;gang shootings \u2013 as indiscriminate as they often are \u2013 still don&#8217;t have&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[602],"tags":[650],"class_list":["post-12266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","tag-frequently-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3bQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}