VIOLENCE

Violence - Why we are not outraged

Violence - Why we are not outraged

Our heritage is of two minds about violence. We are annoyed by school shootings and other senseless actions of aggression and gaze for an origin cause. What can we blame? Movies? Television? Video games? Movies, TV and video sport are full of violence. This is true. But our heritage acknowledged aggression long before these newspapers even existed. Our heritage acknowledges aggression as inescapable and right. People relish aggression, or they wouldn't watch brutal videos and television displays and play brutal video games.

Our homeland was based on an opportunity mentality. ...