Ross Douthat tries to make sense of the Santa Barbara shooter.
He's a product of the Obama era.
Great expectations that don't meet reality.
Yet as sex looms ever larger as an aspirational good, we also live in a society where more people are single and likely to remain so than in any previous era. And since single people have, on average, a lot less sex than the partnered and wedded, a growing number of Americans are statistically guaranteed to feel that they’re not living up to the culture’s standard of fulfillment, happiness and worth.
Just because the kid was crazy doesn't mean he didn't have some insight.
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