[The USA has always had] a perennial problem with violent crime. […] And the reason it cannot be stopped is that the people, both the population at large and those who are supposed to be in charge, do not want it to stop whatever they may claim.
If they sincerely wanted to put an end to it, they could do so in a moment of reasonable consensus. […]
100% exactly. This is all an expression of the people’s will, at least of those people who are even active at all. I’ve written a comment recently that a large part of the US see themselves as warriors who would rather die on the battlefield than rot away in Hel, the place of eternal boredom where nothing ever happens.
The same is happening in the US today. People lose a sense of vision for the future, and without that vision, people are left to rot in their own non-meaningful life. We need to find a new vision for the future, and fast.
100% exactly. This is all an expression of the people’s will, at least of those people who are even active at all. I’ve written a comment recently that a large part of the US see themselves as warriors who would rather die on the battlefield than rot away in Hel, the place of eternal boredom where nothing ever happens.
The same is happening in the US today. People lose a sense of vision for the future, and without that vision, people are left to rot in their own non-meaningful life. We need to find a new vision for the future, and fast.