#20: DEAD-EYED LITTLE MONSTERS 👹

👦 GEN ALPHA - 12-year-old Toronto gunslinger charged with attempted murder

👴 BOOMERS - Elliot Lake senior charged with theft a month after wiping feces on police holding-cell walls

👨 GEN Z - Toronto man yeets bicycle off bridge into moving traffic

Good morning.

It’s no secret that I’ve devoted extensive coverage to the rise of youth (under 18) crime.

(See issues #3, #5, #7, #10, #11, #12, #18, and #19.)

But I’d like you to know that it’s not because I hold a grudge against the youth, nor am I trying to demonize them.

Quite the opposite, in fact. Part of me admires their nihilism.

As comedian Tim Dillon says, they’ve “figured out that the country is a scam... and when you figure out the country is a scam, you can approach it the way a con artist or a scammer would approach it.”

“We've given up on the children,” he says. “They're dead-eyed little monsters. They're running around killing each other. We can't deal with it. It's very traumatic. I've even stopped thinking about what they're doing because it's crazy. I'm more excited about AI than the children.”

But as you will see in this issue, it’s not just kids causing chaos. It reaches, rather, “from generation to generation.”

-Peter

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