Not to spark a debate but I'm just curious if that statement is true, 72 yellow. "We are witnessing the complete breakdown of society." I wonder how different it was to, let's say the 50's in actual numbers of cases of shootings. We have very quick access to news all over the world now. It might just seem like it's getting worse. I remember my great aunt talking about a kid who shot students and then tried burning the place down over a girl.
Well, there was the Hatfields and McCoys. No reason to believe this was an isolated incident.
Humans have always been in competition for resources, both with other animals, as well as other humans. Strife and conflict are often the result. History has recorded only some of the events, and erased others.
Human nature hasn't changed since the evolution into the homo sapiens species. We have ceased to evolve. However, our knowledge base has evolved to be quite different than what existed at the beginning of Homo sapiens.
Because of communication technology a few have a much louder voice than others. Only some of this is reasoned, can be difficult to find, and even more difficult to identify. Rare these days that the facts are presented without bias meant to induce a positional "side", of one extreme or the other.
My generation was raised by those that endured WWII and even WWI. Shooting was abhorrent to most of that generation, as they experienced first hand the government imposed sacrifice of thousands of personal relations. Such abhorrence to shooting was passed down to those offspring willing to understand. But, as most children come to believe, the parents are wrong in most of their decisions. Also discarded was the abhorrence of harming another in the easiest or extreme way available.
Todays "news shows" favor sensationalism as a way to placate advertisers, as well as, the magnates (and their ideology) that control the media.
Sex sells. Violence sells. Outrage sells. In fact, almost anything that titillates the baser instincts, sells. And sales is (mostly) what dominates our media. Note that "sales" can be applied to both product and ideology, while bombarding the minds of others. Further our populace, which has embraced "social media", is now mimicking what the popular news outlets have already made into a familiar pattern. One trying to "one up" the other to gain social prominence.
Our schools don't support creative thinking, but rather conformal thinking. However, one cannot prevent "thinking different" by a curriculum. Rigid curriculum forces such thinking into the fringe, creating loners, who actively seek alternate solutions to what problems they face. Which are easily found also in media as the product of Hollywood, and in fictional shows, presented as real life settings.
No doubt many won't agree.
