A summary on “Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?” By: Marilyn Manson

The author starts the article by making statements on how evil and violence was always apart of human nature.  Quoting “The day that Cain bashed his Brother Abel's brains in, the only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence.” He further goes on to state that America idolizes killers by putting them on covers of magazines or on the front page news, like they would any celebrity. I got the sense that he was saying as consumers, we buy into it. The writer claims that Times has not gotten more violent over the years but that America is now allowed more access to such stories by watching the news. The author is conveying that America as a whole is responsible for the Columbine shooting. That we spend time pointing fingers on whose fault it may be. He backs this up by saying, “Man's greatest fear is chaos. It was unthinkable that these kids did not have a simple black-and-white reason for their actions.” He is pointing out that people spend time trying to find reasoning and where to put blame, when in reality there is no specific reason that these acts of violence happen. Each person is responsible for their actions and theirs alone. The author himself chooses not to feed into what people blame him for. He also states that he chooses not to defend himself on that same matter. “In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.”

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