Americans Severed Their Connection with Space. And Now We’re Paying the Consequences.

Skyrocketing drug use, hate crimes, political violence, and school shootings—I don’t know what else I’ve left out, but what do all of these have in common? Ultimately, they all have some relationship with meaning-making. For example, it might be hard to see how shooting up a school is a meaning-making activity. It’s easier to understand if we look at what sort of sense it made to the shooter. When we begin to view it as an elimination of all that the shooter felt <a href="https://news.vcu.edu/article/2023/02/addressing-social-isolation-may-be-key-in-preventing-mass-shootings-study-finds" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">rejected</a> from—a society of peers—then the meaning might be found in its destruction. Violence is never senseless, it only appears so. “Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents”, Ray Bradbury wrote in Fahrenheit 451. <a href="https://medium.com/@absurdistan/americans-severed-their-connection-with-space-and-now-were-paying-the-consequences-a82bec6d3a51">Click Here</a>