"Dumbly applying the nearest pop-psych explanation..."
If describing this tragedy as "someone going postal" isn't dumbly applying pop-psych, then I don't know what is.
If describing this tragedy as "someone going postal" isn't dumbly applying pop-psych, then I don't know what is.
"Going postal" is comparatively mum. It's a hybrid of "Going crazy" and "disgruntled postal worker," and suggests only that we think the perpetrator is not sane -- that we can't understand why they would do that. Where is the pop psychology?