Today, there was an assassination attempt on Charlie Kirk.
This is horrific. It’s devastating. And, unbelievably, there will be mixed emotions on the internet about it.
This kind of political violence has the signatures of “last days of the empire” type events. Political actors who think there’s nothing left to do than burn it all down.
Charlie Kirk is a human being. A husband and a father. But if you are an extremist, you only view him through the algorithm. And the algorithm is dehumanizing and inhuman. So, you act in an inhumane way to try and right the wrongs you think (delusion) are in the world.
I can’t believe this. As I’m typing, I’m only try and make sense of it. But there’s no sense to be made of it.
We really might be in The Great Ravine, especially if this is the kind of thing that really is happening more often. I can’t tell if everything feels off and it feels “last days” because it is, or if it’s because that’s what the algorithm is telling me.
Things feel off.
I can’t believe this happened. I pray for Charlie and for his family.
I pray for us.
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Edit 4:45 PM
Charlie Kirk has died.
This is a very terrible day.