Let's admit she was just nuts. But it still conveys some lessons.

Nasim Aghdam that is.

And her veganism was part of that.

Yes, it is.  And I know that's not kind and sensitive.

And, no, I don't mean to suggest for a moment that all vegans are nuts. But veganism is a nutty diet and nutty diets lend themselves to nuts or becoming a nut.

Indeed, Nasim Aghdam is a symbol of about all that's wrong with Western Society right now.  Over urbanized, self absorbed, at war with our human natures and at war with nature itself.

Okay, let's break this down just a bit, as the entire Nasim Aghdam attack on Facebook should tell us a lot about where we are at as a society right now, and the lessons are disturbing.

Lets start with Aghdam herself.  Who, and what, was she?

Well, we don't know that much about her, but what we makes it clear that she was an absolute nut.

She was an Iranian immigrant who likely came over with her family was a child, but was old enough to have retained her Persian accent. She was a member of the Bahá'í faith, which has its origins in Iran and which has been persecuted since day one there.  She was a vegan and an animal rights activists.  She was a Vlogger.  She was a body builder.

In short, she was a mass of contradictions such that, if you didn't start off insane, after combining all of these, you likely would be.

Now, no, I don't mean to say that all Persians, bodybuilders, Bahá'í adherents, or vegans are nuts, although I'll be frank that the last one, except perhaps in some extraordinary circumstances, if flat out nutty.  

And I do mean that only a society that has become so urbanized, effete anemic and frankly safe, could produce folks of this mindset.  Other societies produce nuts, and always have, but this brand of mixed nut is uniquely western.  Had Aghdam grown up in her native Persia, she may have been a nut alright, but of a different type.  Only in the west would such a self absorbed person at war with nature have acted out against unknown individuals working for Youtube.  Frankly, while all this social media stuff is fun, most of it is pretty inconsequential, including this blog that I post this stuff on. To be so self absorbed that you would think that it does, and that low viewership would merit murder, is insane.  But its a type of insanity that's symptomatic of a bigger problem.

And for that matter, so is veganism itself and "Animal Rights" as a cause.

Now, I don't mean to suggest for a moment that all vegans are nuts. But veganism is a nutty diet and nutty diets lend themselves to nuts or becoming a nut.  It's grossly contrary to our natural diet which we are evolved to eat.  Eating outside of our evolutionary base is putting a stress of a unique type on us that will have deep implications at some point.  To counter that a person has to be extraordinarily zealous to make up the protein that a person would acquire from meat, and few will.  

And the view that animals are equal to humans is an expression of a deep hatred of the natural world. We clearly are not, and if we are close to a state of nature our relationship with other animals is quite plain.  All early humans were hunters and gatherers and all humans remain that at some level. To deny that is to despise the world. To pretend that it's out of love is to make a mockery of real love, or to at least express a lack of understanding of it at a deeply elemental level.  So right from the onset, this woman was emblematic of a sickness in our society that we've developed as we've become more and more deluded in our concrete jungle and we express more and more hatred for our condition.

Now, I noted all of her known characteristics so I should flesh that out as well.  Not only was she an animal rights activist and a vegan, but a body builder.

There's nothing wrong with body building and there's certainly nothing wrong with exercise, but anyone who has ever stumbled across the writings of really dedicated body builders can't help but be disturbed a bit.  It's one of the things that a person can simply take too far, going from health, to narcisissm.  

And that would describe much of what's out there in the Vlogger space, to say the least.

And, to maintain, as she did, that she could post on Persian culture while being a vegan is well. . . an embarrassment to Persian culture really.

Anyhow, it's interesting how far down this road, and the further we get from small towns and villages, we slip into this deep hatred of nature.  It's so bad that the people exhibiting don't even realize that they're expressing a deep hatred of the nature as it is.  And while I will not go so far as to claim that this is a fulfillment of a prophesy, this sort of thing can't help but bring to mind 1st Timothy to me, in which it was stated:

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, through the pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth

1st Timothy, Chapter 4

So, at the end of the day, she was a nut.  A nut whose acts is no doubt amplified because of the conditions in which she lived, by which I mean, modern society, which tolerates and even celebrates the sort of wacky conduct and ideas gave rise to her dementia.

So, what lesson can we draw.  More gun control, right?

Not hardly.

This attack stands as an example that just living in a state with lots of gun control and thinking good thoughts will protect a person from the acts of random nuts.  It won't. And this provides an example of where the Second Amendment afforded protection but it apparently wasn't taken up.

Youtube can be nifty, but it's also a reservoir of everything disturbing in the world that there is.  It isn't just a place for cute cat videos.

Not hardly.

Every disturbing belief in the world finds expression there. Every nut who feels the world needs to hear from him, and most nuts hold that view to some extent.  And every narcissistic fool with a view.

And for that reason, you'd think Youtube would have known that it was a target for the very sort of deranged people that it promotes.  Protecting itself would have been in order.