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Are Older Americans Suffering From Mean World Syndrome?

An 84-year-old Kansas City man was arrested for shooting a 16-year-old black youth who went to the wrong address to pick up his siblings.

Patricia G. Barnes, J.D.
Apr 20, 2023
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Older Americans recently were involved in shootings where, in retrospect, there apparently was no real threat.

Is this purely coincidental? I think not.

I suspect that older Americans are suffering from a virulent strain of mean world syndrome.

The term “mean world syndrome” was coined in the 1960s to describe the impact of media on the viewer’s perceptio…

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