My thoughts on this fascinating article about some very human tragedy. (I should really expand on this topic)
(warning, story is rather brutal)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kip-kinkel-is-ready-to-speak_n_60abd623e4b0a2568315c62d
from Jessica Schulberg's post (she's the author)
@jessicaschulb
When Kip Kinkel was 15, he killed his parents, 2 boys at school and wounded 25 others. He took a plea deal that resulted in 112 yrs w/o parole and has been held up as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since. I've been talking with him since August
barry goldman
@barrygoldman1
my deep reaction to this is that this is the 21st century and we still really don't know how to accept what it means to be human, nor how to react to it. 200 year sentences in prison? we don't know how to react rationally to being human! that's like supernatural thinking. 1/n
schizophrenic breakdown and we kill.. THAT'S human. our brains are creative hypercomplicated systems that obviously r going to go haywire sometimes. that's the price we pay for having evolved into what we r. when will we accept the reality of th RANGE of human experience? 2/n
in fact if we truly embraced the challenge of being human, the necessity of the divergence that is part of evolving thru being H. sapiens, not stigmatizing mental illness, all manner of divergent ways of being... probly we coulda helped the poor kid before he broke! 3/3
maybe i'm supposed to be working on this radical ministry i've imagined and call, shockingly, cancer is God.
only hinted at in the last paragraph here, in some thoughts about Darwin's day
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/2021/02/why-we-can-forgive-each-other-thoughts.html
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