>I bet if someone bought that D video in the end it >just looks really sad how a the people of a city ended >up like that.
I don't know about the city, but the country is what I see ending up like that. No matter where you go here, there are those that, though they may not publicly glorify violence, they do think of it as a first or second option to solve disputes on any scale. I mean, I've seen a cheerleading coach get at it with a mom over some real simple ish and they were both intelligent, seemingly peaceful people before the altercation. That was just this week. In America this has been the way from the start though (ask the natives, wholesale slaughter gets it done). The issue I think is not the general acceptance of violence (heck, all of nature accepts it as a balancing force). I think it's as martin pointed out, the packaging and commoditization of violence as something to be sought after (if you want to be cool/hard/real/etc). "War Stories" are to todays pop culture what "knowledge of self" was to the golden era of hip-hop. A mistake? Probably not. Is there any way to reverse this from where we are now? I'm not really sure, but I'd love to hear some ideas. k
