The murder of Charlie Kirk has resulted in vigils, including one I attended Sunday at the Kennedy Center, a moving televised speech from his wife, and predictions from many conservatives that as with the death of Andrew Breitbart, a million Kirks will now bloom. I welcome all of that, but none of it fixes the problem of people like Luigi Mangione or this 22-year-old charged with the murder. Now that we have a pattern of teens (white male teen boys and trans girl-boys), often from good families, murdering fathers with young kids, we have to ask: what’s up with the kids?
If enough teens have obvious mental illness with our current institutions—depression, suicide, mutilation, cutting, transsexuality, thinking they’re gay or bi in strangely larger numbers, drug abuse—maybe we need to end current institutions. It doesn’t help that for kids whose families can only afford government schools, 26 percent of their classmates are going to be immigrants or children of immigrants. Often from less civilized countries. (I work in these schools in northern Virginia. The kids stabbing each other in the stair well or calling each other and their teachers “nigger” aren’t suburban white kids. Or Asian. Or suburban black kids in most cases. They are Latin immigrant kids.)
Solutions?
No more mandatory school attendance.
No more government managed schooling.
No more labor laws preventing teenagers from working full-time.
If being "free" to be supported and entertained and warehoused by either parents or governments leads to violent acting out, self-abuse, delusions, destructive hobbies, then end the coddling. Let the kids support themselves, in the military, restaurants, farms, or whatever work they can get. When they’re more mature they can pick up their education again, under programs of instruction under their control, not the government's. Public schools, like colleges, have become centers of Marx/Marcuse etc. where kids are taught to hate themselves and each other, and that only accepting a victim status and getting into good trouble as the “social justice” teachers call it, is what one should do.
We know college alone can take a fairly normal kid from a normal and loving family and turn them into a leftist killer. It may help if the kid isn’t heterosexual (male/white/beautiful/extroverted/charismatic etc.) and at college is told he’s the victim of white heteronormative patriarchy. If your kid is gay (or perhaps some type of neurodivergent kid) you must make it clear you still love them and have some kind of (perhaps edited or altered) high expectations for them, where they must also perform, achieve, fit into society, find happiness, have a family, etc. even if it’s in their own way. We must defund toxic college institutions.
It's interesting how many delusional hobbies, fads, and fantasies overlap. Many of these hobbies start when young, with teens or in college, I think particularly among girls (and gay boys). A significant portion of people under the delusion they’re really the other gender seem to be into "furry" larping, like the trans boyfriend of the kid charged with Charlie Kirk’s murder.
I think a disproportionate share are also into wicca and the occult.
Apparently any break with reality can be a port in their storm. I'm re-watching one of the two shows (the other is Stranger Things) that got me to subscribe to Netflix 7 years ago, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. In the first episode Sabrina's nonbinary friend has her top pulled up by football players, who want to "see" if she’s a boy or a girl. Teen witch Sabrina starts casting spells to punish them. But she also starts a high school feminist group, "Women's Intersectional Creative and Cultural Alliance," i.e. Wicca. Perhaps Netflix needs the same ID verification some states have now imposed on PornHub.