I have to tell myself...

[rivka]

...that everyone I have seen, heard, or read posts from in the past 24 hours is in shock. That people are not responding to this with their full reasoning capacities. That the ugliness I'm seeing in some online exchanges is not people's "true selves" revealed, but their anger and terror being expressed in a rather scattershot fashion.

But some of it scares me, and more of it saddens me.

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[jenett]

I agree, though. A lot of what's being said *really* scares me, and scares me much more than the actual deliberate carnage, as horrific as that was.

Question is, though, and the one I can't get out of my head: there's shock, and yet... what you see at times of shock is often much closer to the heart of the person than most people want to admit. The person without the thin varnish of civilisation and security around them.