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Random Thoughts on Mass Shootings: Can Psychology Help Explain Them?

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This Psychologist feels that the current wave of mass shootings are indicative of a dying society and that psychology and the whole "mental health industry" not only have contributed little to understanding our current social dilemmas but have contributed much to them. I will try and think outloud on the following: 1) Our theories fail to separate explanations from judgments; 2) examine the necessity for human beings to be both individuals as well as members of groups and society;  3) fails to adequately intergrate biology and psychology; 4) fails to integrate the roles played by politics and economics; 5) fails to develop a language of simultaneity that encompasses both individuals, the social groups that define us as individuals. Finally, I will muse on the role of science and technology that are changing every aspect of being human and ask the question "Will Alexa ever really love us?"

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