he didn't get far

A Watertown, Massachusetts homeowner checked his boat in the backyard, tonight, and found the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

Tsarnaev in custody; seriously injured.  (Injury from late Thur. night / early Fri. a.m. shootout.)

From info available, to me it sounds like --

1.  this wasn't instigated or planned by some international "jihad"

2.  the older brother, the one who was killed last night, was one of those young people who couldn't find his path, get his bearings, as an adult, & he turned to his own, sort of created idea of his religion, Islam -- you know, he had a You Tube page -- ... one of those people trying to find an identity, and be "powerful" but without having any substantive talents or worthy goals that could, with honest work, lead him to become powerful, naturally -- powerful for positive things

3.  like that school shooter in Connecticut, he probably played too many of those violent games, like Call of the wild, or Call of duty, or whatever it is, that type of thing could be addictive, and affect the way a kid's brain develops....

4.  he dropped out of college

5.  he hit his girlfriend

6.  a guy with whom he practiced boxing said that the older brother's personality sort of changed suddenly -- this older brother was one of those people searching for himself, and feeling frustrated

7.  he came up with a plan to do something radical and destructive, to make himself feel powerful, and he pulled his younger brother into the plan with him

...is the way it looks to me.

And unfortunately it seems like these incidents of public destruction -- shootings, explosions -- have in recent years become "the thing that's in style" for people whose minds and emotions are on that track....Low self-esteem...lack of a self-image...wanting to do something "powerful" (destructive) to make for themselves a place in the world, if only in the moment.  It's a trend -- copy-cats -- they copy each other's actions....one offers an idea -- even a plan, or a blueprint -- to the next one.

Sometime in the future, it'll be something else....

When we feel upset by things like this, and we're moved to say, "What is the world coming to?  Society is going down-hill....!" we probably have to remember that murderous misanthropes have been part of mankind's experience from the beginning of time.

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