From the letters section in the local paper
Don’t blame Marilyn Manson: Blame the Quebec education department.
The events at Dawson College are getting people to reflect on what was wrong with the shooter. Looking at his picture will generally confirm in the minds of some the old canard about negative influences like heavy metal music and what we should do about them.
In high school, we read Aldous Huxley, Albert Camus and J.D. Salinger, all of whom tried to convince us that life had no ultimate meaning.
CEGEP was more of the same nihilism. And we are surprised when this leads some to the despicable choice of violence to dull the pain.
Oh brave new world, fuck off and die.
September 16th, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Good god. That ought to come up in Banned Books week somewhere at the end of the month.