[Ciaphas Cain]

It's not just young people throwing their lot in with Hamas or going out and committing mass shootings. It's been a thing for a long time now: young and also older people doing crazy things like getting excessive tattoos, body piercing etc. People have run out of ways to be unique, of having a sense of identity for themselves that lets them stand out.

Those are things of the mind and spirit, not the body. But our culture has diminished that, the things that really matter. Concepts of honor and virtue and simple good have vanished in this age of social media, and even before then. Liberalism destroys everything it touches, including the human heart.

So people turn to other things to fill that void. They are driven to wild excesses of physical being. So it is that we now have "transgenderism" and homosexuality itself.

And when THOSE don't satisfy the need for identity, other things - like lashing out in violence and murder - are readily there to fill that lack of being complete.

So it's not surprising that too many young people and their "enlightened" elders are supporting Hamas. They have the need to "belong to something greater than themselves." Even if it's throwing their lot in with a 1,400 year old cult of murder and its adherents.

[metmom]

It's not just young people throwing their lot in with Hamas or going out and committing mass shootings. It's been a thing for a long time now: young and also older people doing crazy things like getting excessive tattoos, body piercing etc.

Nothing screams, *I have attention need issues* like an older woman, like someone with gray hair old, who is walking around with pink, purple, blue, or green hair.

Seriously. It does not look like it's *fun*. It looks immature and attention seeking.

I refuse to ever comment on it.