22-02-2013, 07:04 AM
Thank you for your comments, Magda.
Maybe its some form of collective guilt, because of living with an economic system that is based on a form of thievery (exploitation of workers, etc.), plus a history of being persecuted, as in the case of the Puritans. Or maybe because of having very strict religious beliefs and the controls such religions impose, which could make anyone a bit paranoid and scared most of the time. And, of course, much of such fear is artificially amplified by propaganda and media right-wing news pushing toward war and its profits..
Your last sentences summed it up really well, I think:
We are seeing major paranoid reactions on the part of some gun owners who fear that their guns will be taken from them, and the govenment is now the enemy. Probably the only other country that competes with the US in all this is South Africa. I understand they have a lot of gun violence and other forms of violence. Unhappy people there, too.
Adele
Maybe its some form of collective guilt, because of living with an economic system that is based on a form of thievery (exploitation of workers, etc.), plus a history of being persecuted, as in the case of the Puritans. Or maybe because of having very strict religious beliefs and the controls such religions impose, which could make anyone a bit paranoid and scared most of the time. And, of course, much of such fear is artificially amplified by propaganda and media right-wing news pushing toward war and its profits..
Your last sentences summed it up really well, I think:
Quote:Then there is the open theft of other people's land who were unsurprisingly unwilling to go quietly or 'give up' their land. I think this goes deep to the soul, for lack of a better word, of a people, a country, its basic illegitimacy in existing at the destruction of some one else and the cognitive dissonance this creates. Like having ripped some one off and always having to look over your shoulder in case justice or karma catches up.
We are seeing major paranoid reactions on the part of some gun owners who fear that their guns will be taken from them, and the govenment is now the enemy. Probably the only other country that competes with the US in all this is South Africa. I understand they have a lot of gun violence and other forms of violence. Unhappy people there, too.
Adele