American Thinker

It’s Deeper Than Mental Illness
By J. Robert Smith

Maybe you spent time last week perusing X postings related to Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Aside from the many accolades, conservative influencers did fine jobs identifying left-wingers who not only celebrated Kirk’s assassination, but offered attaboys to Tyler Robinson, the triggerman. Some even called for more violence. If you didn’t have time earlier, scroll through the Libs of TikTok’s and the Vigilant Fox’s threads, for starters. You’ll get an eyeful. “Somebody had to do it” wasn’t an uncommon refrain. Who, this side of hell, delights in an act of murder?



What was striking was that many of the posts featured females. Was that the result of sampling biases? Not likely. It was self-promotion. Call it malignant feminist self-empowerment. Not that there aren’t Charlie Kirk haters among “progressive” males -- his killer is an XY, after all, who lived with a trans -- but left-of-center females dominated the posted videos. Why so?

There’s no point rehashing Kirk’s qualities or listing his achievements. Others who knew him have provided rich, poignant testimony to his stellar character and unshakable dedication to his faith and freedom. His very public record is testament enough.


If you sift through the haters’ postings, you’ll think they inhabit an alternative universe. Abundant public record be damned. For them, Kirk was an ogre, some mythical beast. He checked off every box that inflames the leftist mind. Homophobe, transphobe, this-phobe, that-phobe. They fictionalized Kirk. Damn reality, too!

Are the celebratory outpourings over an innocent man’s murder indictive of a sickness in our society? Yes, they are.


That sickness starts with an obsession -- the obsession with self. “If it feels good, do it” was a 60s mantra that has sparked a decades-long deep dive into hedonism, regardless the blarney about “self-actualization.” The Me Generation ethos metastasized, spreading throughout the society.

What does preoccupation with self do to a person’s mind and emotions? How does it impact relating to others? How does it warp perceptions? What happens when academics have, for decades, peddled the notion that there’s no external or objective truth? Should we be stunned that people -- mostly females -- popped up on TikTok and Blue Sky giggling, praising, toasting, and jigging in reaction to a coldblooded murder? Shades of the Manson girls, huh? Perhaps females have been more greatly damaged by over a half century of being battered with me, me, me? Or are they just inclined to be more visible?



The counterculture, which arose in the 1960s, has been a pox ever since. It’s indulgers have trashed norms, shredded traditions, denigrated faith, and demeaned family. The destruction was justified, we’re told. Had to tear down to build. Had to stamp out injustice and inequality to achieve both. But the building never started. That would put too many academics, activists, talking heads, and politicians out of business. You really don’t want what the left would build, anyway.

The counterculture’s early champions declared that they wanted a society guided by love, peace, and harmony. Instead, we saw the counterculture devolve into violence -- campus riots, the Chicago Democrat convention riots in 1968 (remember the Chicago 7?), the Weather Underground and Symbionese Liberation Army, the Black Panthers, spiraling drug abuse and addictions, climbing rates of STDS, broken relationships, fatherless children. Anger, resentment, and score settling for real -- or more often, imagined -- wrongs replaced the hype about love and peace.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: MAXIMUS PANDAMONIUS,

Edit all that extraneous bullshit out of your post.

Jeez.

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Originally posted by Brutus:
Edit all that extraneous bullshit out of your post.

Jeez.

It certainly doesn't seem to have made anybody happier. I'm often surprised at the dedication people have to ideas that don't seem to have improved their lives in any way.

I am sympathetic to the fact that a lot of people didn't choose these beliefs though. Public school indoctrination is no joke. 12 years of someone telling you that humans are destroying the planet and that we desperately need less of them is going to soak in. And anything that makes you hate humanity will make you hate yourself. Not a recipe for happiness.

Yes SIR?!!!

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Originally posted by MAXIMUS PANDAMONIUS:
Yes SIR?!!!

Thank you.

That's much better.