Mass Brain Damage

"Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It’s called being mass man. It began quite a long time ago.", "all forms of violence are a quest for identity. When you live out on the frontier, you have no identity. You’re a nobody. Therefore, you get very tough. You have to prove that you are somebody. And so you become very violent. And so identity is always accompanied by violence. This seems paradoxical to you? That ordinary, ordinary people find the need for violence as they lose their identities. So it’s only the threat to people’s identity that makes them ... —terrorists, hijackers: these are people minus identity." - Canadian Professor Marshall McLuhan. September 19, 1977

Note that this news source about Florida USA is from overseas, it is not domestic press / information source provider based in North America.

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951