That term - blooding - immediately made me think of Dave McGowan's Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder * here's the passage it reminded me of:
Another common thread that ties the cases of these [serial killers] together is an early experience in the workforce that exposed them to the depravities that one human
can inflict upon another. Kenneth Bianchi, for example, worked for a time as an ambulance attendant. So did John Wayne Gacy, who also was employed at a mortuary. Such an experience is what the intelligence community refers to as a ‘blooding.’ In a similar vein, the entire country is being ‘blooded,’ though on a lesser level, through near constant exposure to a television and video game diet increasingly dominated by scenes of graphic violence. The effect of this is to radically desensitize individuals, or an entire society, to appalling levels of bloodshed and carnage.
*Fair warning if you decided to read it. The first part of the book is called "The Pedophocracy" and immediately starts talking about the Dutroux affair and pedophile rings. Honestly, the book was one of the most radicalizing things I've ever read.
I couldn't make it through the first episode when I originally saw it. I'm giving it another shot right now and I can't actually tell if the dialogue is genuine or if they're just doing a bit lmao
I haven't listened to this yet, so I'm not sure if this comes up during these episodes. But if you want a good book about stuff like this I'd recommend Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children by Ross Cheit. I'm still working my way through it (it's like 500 pages worth of dense and heavy material), but it's very well researched. You can find it on library genesis.
Here's part of the description pulled from Goodreads:
Drawing on years of research into cases in a number of states, Cheit shows that the issue had not been blown out of proportion at all. In fact, child sex abuse convictions were regular occurrences, and the crime occurred far more frequently than conventional wisdom would have us believe. Cheit's aim is not to simply prove the narrative wrong, however. He also shows how a narrative based on empirically thin evidence became a theory with real social force, and how that theory stood at odds with a far more grim reality. The belief that the charge of child sex abuse was typically a hoax also left us unprepared to deal with the far greater scandal of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, which, incidentally, has served to substantiate Cheit's thesis about the pervasiveness of the problem.
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That term - blooding - immediately made me think of Dave McGowan's Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder * here's the passage it reminded me of:
*Fair warning if you decided to read it. The first part of the book is called "The Pedophocracy" and immediately starts talking about the Dutroux affair and pedophile rings. Honestly, the book was one of the most radicalizing things I've ever read.