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To the people who are desperately trying to spin this as being relevant for other reasons, like jurisprudence or cultural relevance or some vast Freudian template, I call bullshit. There are a lot of other cases in America, cases you will never hear about, which expose the deeper issues here in a more meaningful and complex way.
This is voyeurism, populism, and celebrity-chasing, regardless of the gloss it's given. It is psychological pornography for the unexamined-life set. And it is a desperate attempt to construct mythology without employing heroes or heroines.
In the end, that's the only genuine takeaway from this: America has become so hollow that it is now trapped in its own meta-emptiness.
