"What are we to make of modern crazy people, though? They’ve taken all
of the old pathologies — Devil worship, hammer of God, aliens — and
added a new twist: cannibalism. Just in the past few days, we’ve had
one guy eat off another’s face, although he didn’t live to tell the tale; a Maryland man dine upon his roommate; and a Devil-worshipping gay porn star film himself murdering his lover, whose flesh he later ate. A few years ago, a Canadian man killed and ate a fellow traveler on a bus, claiming his victim was an alien. Richard Fernandez has collected other recent cannibal stories that are impossible to ignore."
Read much more here: http://www.bookwormroom.com/2012/06/02/crazy-people-the-zeitgeist-and-cannibalism/
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