I was bored today and wanted to catch up on TV that I missed last year, which turns out to be a lot better than I thought. The show of choice was: Hannibal, based of Silence of the Lamb and Red Dragon character Hannibal Lecter.

I was not originally interested, but I read the reviews and tried it out. It was incredibly interesting, disturbing, and psychologically educational, like watching a progressive drama about the root of sanity and insanity in the modern world. Sure, the guy eats people, but there's an underlying sanity in his disturbing actions, which is creepy in its own way. Antony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter was the genial madman, who no one imagined was a cannibal, but you do not understand why he does what he does. Show-runner, Bryan Fuller, has plot development that fleshes out this sociopath into something that goes way beyond the crazy theatrical monster, this Hannibal Lecter is human except he does not hold human empathy.

Now that in itself makes me a happy TV viewer, but reading an article on CNN today makes me feel weird:

Massachusetts Man plotted to kill and eat Children

That news article really hit close to home and it makes me wonder how many people out there really could be capable of doing what Hannibal Lecter does in fiction.

I wonder, is this type of sociopath part of modern world or a reaction to it? Are sadists created due to the emotional isolation in the world or are they byproducts of our "applied" isolation from labels and political correctness?

I don't know the answer and it is what scares me.