Living in their own private Arizona

[pjthompson]

This kind of vandalism makes me sick to my stomach.

This is an embodiment of the whole “if it happened before I was born it doesn’t matter” philosophy. Of the “I’m more important, pay attention to ME!” pride-in-ignorance that a growing number of people in this country seem to have adopted as a personal philosophy.

You know, really, it’s beyond ignorance. It’s a willful destruction of humanity’s collective treasure, tantamount to the Taliban dynamiting the statues of Buddha.

“If I can’t create,” this vandal seems to be saying, “I will destroy what others have created. If I don’t understand, I’ll make sure no one else understands, either.”

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[marycatelli]

That's one possible reason.

Fatuous self-absorption to the point of narcissism is another -- the idea that he can't do as he pleases being alien to him.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

I think that's very likely.