Too many guns, or too many sick, violent f*cks?
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:10 pm
I've long felt two topics are missing from the gun policy discussion.
First, why limit the discussion to guns owned by civilians? We (U.S.A.) also have the most heavily armed (and violent) police of any western industrialized country, and a heavily armed interventionist military spreading mayhem around the world. Liberals and Leftists, of all people, shouldn't be overlooking either of those aspects or taking them for granted. I'm not suggesting the relationship between civilian and police/military armament is simple or causal, just that it should be considered.
Second, doesn't it seem like this country is awash with sick, violent f*cks? Look at the games we play and the sports and films we watch. Barely suppressed violent rage no longer registers as pathology because it has become normal.
Here is an interesting take on these themes, written back in February 2015, that I just came across.
http://voxpopulisphere.com/2015/02/22/a ... massacres/
First, why limit the discussion to guns owned by civilians? We (U.S.A.) also have the most heavily armed (and violent) police of any western industrialized country, and a heavily armed interventionist military spreading mayhem around the world. Liberals and Leftists, of all people, shouldn't be overlooking either of those aspects or taking them for granted. I'm not suggesting the relationship between civilian and police/military armament is simple or causal, just that it should be considered.
Second, doesn't it seem like this country is awash with sick, violent f*cks? Look at the games we play and the sports and films we watch. Barely suppressed violent rage no longer registers as pathology because it has become normal.
Here is an interesting take on these themes, written back in February 2015, that I just came across.
http://voxpopulisphere.com/2015/02/22/a ... massacres/
I mostly agree with the author, Abby Martin, although I wish she hadn't made it a generational thing in the second quoted paragraph above. From what I have seen, my generation ("boomers") and my parent's generation were no better.America has an identity crisis. This is a relatively new country compared to the rest of the world, yet it’s the bully that pretends to know war and democracy like no other. Unfortunately, generations of Americans have been told by their political leaders that they are more exceptional human beings than the rest of the world – this sense of privilege is incredibly toxic.
Today Gen Xers and Millennials are raised with unhealthy levels of entitlement, and despite the long dead American Dream, continue to assume that if they just “work hard” they too will become millionaires. Too often than not, they end up in soul sucking positions just to pay off college debt. We are coddled like children in terms of our political knowledge and truncated worldview to maintain mindless consumption, yet told to fend for ourselves when it comes to surviving in the real world. What does this kind of cultural vapidity do to a society?
Children of the empire feel entitled to wealth and power, while seeing their government pillage countries and commit atrocities with total impunity, killing millions of people with no empathy nor consequence. It’s a recipe for internal disaster, where people are taking out this confused sense of self on innocents before removing themselves from the earth.