Savage pointed to endless wars abroad and the constant stream of killings broadcast on social media as the catalyst for what he described as a numbing of conscience. “The slaughter in Ukraine and Russia, the merciless killing back and forth, has desensitized the world. Human life no longer has meaning. And then people log on and watch killings replayed online every day. It’s breaking minds everywhere. No one even knows how to think clearly anymore.”

That cultural breakdown, Savage argued, is compounded by technology and narcissism. “The iPhone has made everyone into a star behind their bars — how many bars they have on their phone. Everyone’s the actor, writer, director, producer of their own show. They go on Instagram, and suddenly they think their opinions have the same validity as Einstein. If Einstein were alive today, he’d go on YouTube to explain the theory of relativity, and some schmuck would comment, ‘You’re just a Zionist Jew, you don’t know what you’re talking about.’ That’s what passes for dialogue.”

The result, he said, is a society where “truth is gone.” Schools no longer teach logic or critical thinking, Savage lamented, and “when anything goes, everything goes. Marriage doesn’t mean anything. Family doesn’t mean anything. Loyalty doesn’t mean anything. Everyone is living in their own world, a world unto themselves.”

Turning back to Kirk’s murder, Savage said the questions about the shooter remain deeply troubling. “Did he act alone? Where did he get the rifle? Who was he communicating with on that gaming site, Discord?” Savage noted reports that the shooter had scrawled the radical protest song “Bella Ciao” onto his bullets, linking the act to decades of left-wing agitprop. “It’s basically an anti-fascist workers’ anthem. Bernie Sanders and so-called democratic socialism brainwashed a generation with this garbage, and now you see the fruit: a murderer who convinced himself he was killing for the cause of humanity.”

Even more disturbing, Savage warned, is the way violent rhetoric online merges with role-playing in video games until players can no longer separate fantasy from reality. “Many of these games are about fighting an oppressive fascist government. So the kid playing becomes the hero taking on fascists — then one day he carries that mindset into real life. And suddenly Charlie Kirk is a ‘fascist’ who must be eliminated.”