It Came to Me on a Whim, the Story of Ingeborg Andersson, Child Murderess
Book Review by Patrick H. Moore, August 24, 2022
There is probably no crime that stirs up the good women of America as much as a mother murdering her young children. This is understandable as it is a truly hideous crime, a crime that scorches the soul, a crime which seems to manifest without warning out of nowhere, leaving the children dead and the mother in a state of bewildered denial.
Once upon a time in the good old USA, murdering mothers were ultimately declared insane and paid for their crime by spending much of their lives in mental institutions. Now, however, it’s very difficult to defend oneself from any such disturbing crime by claiming insanity. At a societal level, this syndrome manifests in our prisons, and some estimate that as many as 30 or 40 percent of our long-term prisoners suffer from moderate to severe mental illness. The cold hard fact is that our prisons double as insane asylums.
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Thanks for your great review about an astounding crime. The way Ingeborg was treated for this crime in Sweden is markedly different from the way it would be handled here in the U.S. and says so much about the maturity level of our culture here in the States, in its apparent adolescence, compared to the culture of post World Wars Europe, which has earned its place in the world more mature nations that understand that punishment only creates more crimes and mostly punishes the families of the criminals, only creating a new generation of criminals in the long run.
Thanks for your astute comment, Susan. I agree completely.
Great commentary, Mr. Moore and your point is well made.
Our nation is psychologically damaged to the point that I doubt we will ever become truly civilized. Reagan created the homelessness that has now become a flood of unwanted, uncared for humans discarded by a society that predominantly looks through them; someone else’s problem when, in point of fact, it’s all our problem.
Yep, drugs and alcohol abuse abound, but surely the root cause is mental illness. But we have become a society so obsessed with fame, the ideal that young people strive to achieve through social media, that very few truly see the horror that’s racing toward us.
Social media has ripped the scab off revealing the selfish puss that’s now spewing out, enveloping our everyday lives. We don’t care about each other. We care about ourselves. The exploding wealth gap, destruction of the middle class, dark money corrupting politics to the point no one has any faith anymore in the system, that perhaps it is, to a degree, understandable that people simply step over the bodies littering the streets.
Give up hope all ye who sail in her, for the Kraken has been awakened and will devour us all in her putrid jaws.