The student I'm speaking of will not be named but regardless was not hurt at least not Physically.
The emotional and mental scars of such a horrific scene can't be measured I don't think...
Aurora Century 16 was the theater I took my own two boys to numerous times for showings of the latest
films enjoyed by Teen boys and their dads. Below is my late son Juan as we took in the latest film about a year before the Mass Shootings there...
Of course nobody could predict what was going to happen in that theater about a year after this photo I took of my son.
As an artist myself who's recorded a national Christian Saxophone record for a major Label, I've often wondered...
"Does art imitate life? or does life imitate art?"
I think both statements are true and here's why...
For Hundreds of years art has definitely imitated life, it's glories and tragedies, it's beauty and in it's Debased awfulness as well as it's bloody realities.
Through most of history art imitated life simply because it took weeks months or years to paint a painting on a canvas and put it out.
Or for a writer to finish a novel and have a publisher put it into the Marketplace. These processes used to take years...
Even as recently as 50 years ago a photographer from a news agency covering the Vietnam war had to first process and develop the film, and then have the news agency send it to newspapers all over the world. A process that took at least a few days.
Even with the advent of television, video and photography capturing the beauty of a new lion cub being born at a Zoo, or a tragedy like the famous photo in Vietnam capturing a naked Vietnamese girl running through the streets away from a Napalm bomb took at least a day.
But in the last 30 years publishing has become an instant immediate phenomenon never seen before in man kinds history. Today a Blogger like myself can write, use photographs and publish a blog immediately upon writing it for the world to see.
In the the last 15 years publishing has become even more immediate when a person can instantly publish not only their words, but photos, videos, memes, cartoons, and any type of media INSTANTLY on social Media for millions to view.
Filmmakers, Photographers, Media producers of any kind can now instantly publish their work, whereas just 25 years ago that was something only in science fiction novels or movies which took months or years to publish...
For this reason I believe life is now ALSO imitating art because the instantaneous publishing of film previews, YouTube videos of violence by ISIS or by insane shooters can IMMEDIATELY be published all over the world and seen by the public, by news hounds, by adults and Children...or by impressionable and insane wannabe copycat Killers...
Nonsense you say?
Well, here's a bit of evidence from years ago.
The mass serial killer Ted Bundy was scheduled to be executed for his decades long string of murders of young mostly college age women. It was a well known story.
The Christian Psychologist James Dobson did an interview with Bundy just shortly before he was to be executed for his heinous crimes.
In that interview Bundy said that his consumption of Pornography as a young boy and teenager was responsible for warping his mind to the point that he then wanted to ACT OUT his sexually deviant and violent fantasies in real life, which he did act out murdering numerous young women and committing sexual crimes.
This was coming from the serial killer himself...
The Aurora Century 16 killer James Holmes is more evidence that life in the form of insane shooters copies art...
Holmes with his dead staring eyes in his Jail outfit and Orange hair was copying the Joker character from the film...
I'm not saying everyone who kills or all who obsessively consume violent or sexually charged media copies these violent films or Videos or Computer games like Doom, which even the Columbine Killers were known to play obsessively... But I'm saying that
people who are already deranged, and are seeking out media that confirms their violent psychotic tendencies consume this stuff like a fire consumes Gasoline...
There was an old saying I heard in Churches a lot several years ago..."Garbage in, Garbage out"
meaning, what you look at, consume, read, and watch will eventually change your thinking processes and out comes the garbage in some form.
For some who are already insane, that garbage out could be in the form of actually ACTING OUT violence.
This weekend (October 2019) the New "Joker" movie comes out, which I've already read my FB friends reviews of who say it's inordinately and grossly violent and very disturbing...
The Aurora Theater I took my own kids to where Holmes did his ghastly, violent deed is not showing it, and perhaps we should all think about why that is...
I'm just the Sax player so don't shoot me. Thanks,
DT Out.
