...The account by Mr. Loughner’s friend, a rare extended interview with someone close to Mr. Loughner in recent years, added some details to the emerging portrait of the suspect and his family.
“He was a nihilist and loves causing chaos, and that is probably why he did the shooting, along with the fact he was sick in the head,” said Zane Gutierrez, 21, who was living in a trailer outside Tucson and met Mr. Loughner sometimes to shoot at cans for target practice....
...Mr. Gutierrez said his friend had become obsessed with the meaning of dreams and their importance. He talked about reading Friedrich Nietzsche’s book “The Will To Power” and embraced ideas about the corrosive, destructive effects of nihilism — a belief in nothing....
Believing in NOTHING is what allows the belief in ANYTHING.
It is why science has no meaning to people that find it 'inconvenient' to their profit margins. There is APPLICATION of Nihilism in real life and it is practiced in a way that DEPERSONALIZES values structures to allow the intrusion of the 'unprovable' but 'plausible.
Example: Birthers, 911 Truthers, Self Righteous, etc.
It is where myth lives and deception by and of the desperate PROVIDES a venue to escape the values of a 'Mainstream' society.
After a sincere tragedy to a society that occurred in 2008, which is exampled in the Great Depression, people are desperate to 'gain control' and they grasp at any plausible reason to achieve 'an end.' Complete demoralization of Americans occur when they are placed in poverty after achieving promised goals by a society. ANY method of belief that will bring them out of their poverty 'state' or any method of belief that they BELIEVE will bring them BACK their promises will take hold.
Demoralizing a segment of a nation of people that have not only 'lost' their 'power' but also believe they are the only 'real answer' to their own promises will result in all kinds of mess in 'belief systems' JUSTIFIED by believing in the supernatural or God while achieving a 'spiritual reformation' of those that surround them.
In other words, the spirituality of 'the new truth' will provide the moral content to bring about a shift in values on 'human levels' while providing the 'psyche' the needed relief in believing it is 'wholesome' and 'good.'
If science challenges and disproves the belief system that provides the 'new venue' of 'power' it will be dismissed as inaccurate and hideous. Experts that 'believe' in 'the new profit' of the 'new paradigm' will 'find' enough evidence to provide a basis of 'faux realtiy.'
There is only one 'main stream' party in Washington, DC that embraces those that are de-ranged to the American Social Fabric and they had to approach and agree with Nihilism to achieve their majority in the House. They know it "W"rong and they continue down that path anyway. Why?
Loughner is a PRODUCT of the society he lived in whereby violence and death is the ultimate solution to removing social fabric to a NEW PARADIGM of belief that will 'bring back' comfort. This extremism was going to happen when a political tone in the USA demanded it.
The fact he obtained weapons and used them should be no surprise to LIMITED government and less regulation. Governments across the USA, either local or state or federal are all stressed beyond their capacity and this IS the result. Government is vital to a civilized society and without it people LIVE BY THE GUN. Who's philosophy is that and why is HALF of the USA opposed to it?
A major media enterprise with global reach embrassed Nihilism and did it for POLITICAL PROFITS. The ODDS were this would occur and would escalate if EXPLAINED AWAY 'as a nut case.' He is not an isolated incident and nobody from my side of the street believes it is.
What seemed like insanity is very, very EXPLAINABLE.
