(December 19, 2012 at 11:35 am)Minimalist Wrote: But even the Post is guilty of ignoring the rest of the problem. There is something about this country - or this people - which makes us different from the rest of the civilized world and we had damn well better start to figure out what it is.
It could be the country's domination by the military-industrial complex and the subsequent glorification of warriors and conquest which pervades American culture. The fact that we are held in thrall by a religion which glorifies warriors and conquest maybe doesn't help. Both are (nowadays, at least) pretty unique to America in the west, and it's no coincidence that both of these traits are incestuously inseparable in America.
If we embrace a warrior culture, we should not be surprised when blood spills at home. Changing this would solve a lot of the problems, though obviously that's not happening tomorrow.
