The 345 Park Avenue shooter is now believed to have been motivated by concern over CTE...
The shooter's concern that he might have CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) would add him to the countless high school, college and professional football players impacted by the disease. Over the last decade, the NFL, led by its iron fisted commissioner - Roger Goodell - has moved quickly to settle (some would say sweep under the rug) all claims of football induced CTE. A $1 billion trust has been established to compensate impacted players and their families for brain trauma resulting from participation in the sport. However, both the sum set aside and the manner in which funds are being dispersed have been criticized by those who contend that no amount of money can possibly address the underlying wrongs implicit in putting young men's very lives in danger - all in the name of our entertainment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/business/nyc-shooting-note-cte-explained.html
"The gunman in the Manhattan office shooting said in a note that he believed he had C.T.E., a degenerative disease linked by studies to repeated hits to the head."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/former-nfl-players-denied-compensation-for-brain-trauma
If you are unfamiliar with the disease, I would recommend watching the 2015 film Concussion. Regardless of what you think of Will Smith, both the film and his performance were compelling. After watching it, I came away with the firm conclusion that I would never advise any young man that I care about to ever play the sport of football.
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I don't have Net Flicks, and I canceled Amazon several months ago. The film looks important, so I hope that many DUers will watch it.
I think that what we have been seeing for some time, is the cumulative effects of the toxic masculinity culture that has roots going far back in time.
Within the last week, or so, someone posted a thread that said that professional sports became a big deal because some men put forth the idea that American men weren't manly enough? So, the idea was that men needed to watch, bond over, and participate in rough sports to make them tougher? 
It looks to me like this film could link up sick social ideas that could contribute to mass shootings. A culture that teaches and rewards the idea that might makes right results in brutality of all sorts: mass shootings and stabbings, random attacks, rape and molestation, child abuse, and a government regime that wants to commit the ultimate violence: destruction of democracy and creation of a brutal theocracy and dictatorship.
The threads are visible. When will enough of us connect the dots?
