Wonderland Tragedy

In light of tragedy, especially ones involving human casualty, people want answers. They want to hear that there is something we can blame so the media doesn't need to blame someone else, so we can feel more human in these situations. The problem arises when you see little common threads run into these stories, threads like missing parents, drug abuse, depression. It is crucial to understand how we as humans deal with tragedy, and how our first response is often to blame, find out what caused the incriminating factor, and offer a “treatment”.

In 2000, a show premiered called Wonderland based inside of a mental hospital, that showed the opening scene of a schizophrenic man who boarded the Staten Island ferry, and started shooting a firearm