"the US is not a normal country with a normal government; it’s the hub of the most powerful empire that has ever existed" True, of course. But beyond this are the internal dynamics of the society -- and I note that I have lived in NYC, urban and rural New England, ditto the Southwest. No matter, there are two underpinning barriers to population sanity one senses at the deepest gut level as one wanders among the herd: first, a deafness to discourse, as though free speech is as useless to unearth solutions as a plastic snow shovel on concrete; and second, a deep simmering violence as a solution to disagreements, as though the homicidal actions of the most fecked-up government on the planet have the propulsive force of this underlying "don't tread on me" mental energy simmering within the batshit cultural psyche.
Give me a usa tv and within five minutes I can show you someone being shot, simulated or sometimes real. All the bad guys are killed and everything is ok again.
"the US is not a normal country with a normal government; it’s the hub of the most powerful empire that has ever existed" True, of course. But beyond this are the internal dynamics of the society -- and I note that I have lived in NYC, urban and rural New England, ditto the Southwest. No matter, there are two underpinning barriers to population sanity one senses at the deepest gut level as one wanders among the herd: first, a deafness to discourse, as though free speech is as useless to unearth solutions as a plastic snow shovel on concrete; and second, a deep simmering violence as a solution to disagreements, as though the homicidal actions of the most fecked-up government on the planet have the propulsive force of this underlying "don't tread on me" mental energy simmering within the batshit cultural psyche.
Give me a usa tv and within five minutes I can show you someone being shot, simulated or sometimes real. All the bad guys are killed and everything is ok again.
Yup, that's the all-too-frequently dominant dynamic.