More Irrational Attacks in Our Dysfunctional Society
As I have long maintained, the systems that modern-day Americans have embraced have served to produce a very dysfunctional society. The best manifestation of this dysfunction are the suicides of young people. When youngsters are checking out of life early, that’s a powerful sign that something fundamental is wrong.
There is also the fact that America is a drug-addled society, which is reflected by the fact that the U.S. government still has to maintain a vicious, nationwide drug-war police state. The government’s drug war is designed to prevent an estimated 70 million Americans from getting their hands on drugs and ingesting them. When around 25% of a society are checking out of reality in favor of drug fantasies, that’s a fairly good sign of a highly dysfunctional society.
But I have also long contended that another demonstration of the dysfunctional nature of American society are the irrational mass killings that periodically take place in our society. Yesterday, people in New York City experienced another one of these irrational killings. A guy entered a NYC high-rise with a high-powered rifle and killed four people and then killed himself.
It’s not just guns. Last week, a guy at a Walmart in Michigan went on a knife-stabbing spree in which he injured 11 people. Seven are in fair condition and four are in serious condition. There was no apparent motive for the attack.
Here is what I have long contended:
In every society, there are off-kilter people. In a healthy, functional society those off-kilter people don’t bother anyone. Everyone can see that they are off-kilter but most everyone displays tolerance, kindness, and consideration for them. “There but for the grace of God go I.”
But a healthy, functional society is obviously not the type of society in which we live. We live in a society where the government
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