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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
I agree with Waters for once. I note that the Trolley Square mass murder was checked because someone armed was there and intervened.
I'll add that Americans live in their own fantasy world of simulated violence; they get their jollies through Quentin Tarantino and Martin Schorseze and violent computer games while deluding themselves that the fundamental fact prevailing through human history of human existance being ultimately fraught with violence has somehow come to an end. They irony is their failure to understand the allure of The Departed, the Sopranos, Pulp Fiction, etc. So much of white America is an illusion pure and simple.
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If you are observing that White America is blind to the real violence that most of the world still appreciates as a daily fact, then your observations would be accurate. Middle class America is innoculated against the real jungle that most of the world still experiences.