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As we say in the hood HH, "You ain't said nuttin but a thing in this article, for true!"
Look, even though it's all quite explainable it's all something to be amazed at, as well. We've been actually striving for some time for someone to blame our troubles on, and a way to claim fame in a society that is free but that only values certain things.
Freedom ain't easy under those circumstances, man.
It's even more difficult when you drug yourself with blaming others for your problems and/or make claims (or even increasingly worse commit offensive and violent acts on a mass level) that are outlandish to the point of jaw dropping regardless of taboo.
The question is how insensitive can this allow us to become. Internalizing one's behavior is defense mechanism number one. We can justify almost anything that way. You know, act as if we haven't been in a war for five years. We're just caught up in managing a surge against some really bad, bad people and right after the next commercial break...You get the point.
Ultimately, intervention by adults, or something similar to the laws of physics in human terms, will just bring us an outside force greater than our momentum and stop this runaway train we have become.
In other words, stay tuned.
2008 is a sequel you don't want to miss!
Great article…excellent job!
