just read about “the slender man” murders. i had not heard of him before this.
read the stuff the wik had to say about him and was especially struck by this lil’ nugget:
Tye Van Horn, a writer for The Elm, has suggested that the Slender Man represents modern fear of the unknown; in an age flooded with information people have become so inured to ignorance that they now fear what they cannot understand.
Agree? Disagree? Something in between?
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Hmm… I think people have always been afraid of what they don't understand. But maybe I missing the point.
yea, it's just the modern version. i think he was saying we have so much information so easily accessible that we freak a little when we can't quickly and easily explain something.
Hmm.. That reminds me of the all the Facebookers who scroll through their timelines, commenting on the latest Obamacare share without even reading the link and/or understanding what it's about. :-D