OHSU psychiatrist to highlight warning signs for school shootings
Some teens are having troubling distinguishing between real and virtual realities, making them more likely to turn on the public with real guns blazing.
That’s what Oregon Health and Sciences University psychiatrist Jerald Block was scheduled to tell a conference in Washington earlier today. He cites the Columbine shooting case as an example of what is yet to come.
The Columbine shooters, Harris and Klebold, Block say, were addicted to first person shooters (video games). The two took their aggressions into RL (real life) after having the plug pulled on their digital worlds.
OHSU psychiatrist to highlight warning signs for school shootings
“Virtual realities, like the ones that Harris and Klebold experienced, are a double-edged sword,” explained Block, a clinical faculty member in the OHSU Department of Psychiatry. “On one hand, virtual worlds allow people to feel connected and empowered. They also allow participants to escape stress and have an outlet for aggression. On the other hand, when a heavy user must eliminate or cut back on the virtual, as was the case with these two killers at times, the user can feel lonely, anxious, or angry.
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The virtual world of the video game isn’t the only “virtual world”.
What world are they growing up in ? A world where achievement no matter what the cost is, is the norm. Where everybody must be better than the other in something. A world where your subconscience tells you that the ones you have to trust are not trust worthy, where some obscure elite thinks you are just cattle and where you know that you ll have difficulty to pay anything but through extremely hard labour unless you belong to the right families. Who wouldn’t like to escape to some other world, just to forget this one at least for some while ? Why do youngsters try to escape this world ? That’s the REAL question one should ask. But of course it is your own fault as always. No “author” will discuss this because he/she isn’t “authorised” to write about it. So nobody discusses anything. And if you do , some “specialist” will tell you you are wrong, of course since your common sense is not applicable in these difficult issues.