It's the culture, all right. It's the culture that thinks mental/behavioral problems can be solved with the "magic bullet" of psychoactive drugs that were not invented until about 1960, and multiplying logarithmically until now--drugs that change the brain completely, are absolutely addictive, and produce extremely violent behavior.
There were no school shooting massacres until these drugs became the norm, delivered to yo by your general practicioner who had little or no idea of their effects. You just tell him what you think you need, a;nd he prescribes it for you, based on a TV or magazine advertisement as to its benefits.
Our main drug problem is not heroin or cocaine. It is with chemicals synthesized like designer clothes: SSRIs, antidepressants, antipsychotics, etc. The culture is rife with them, and they produce terroristic lack of personal control and illogical assessment of consequences of behavior.
For one of the major contributors, look to the military formularies, and what they are flooding the combat troopers with.
Yes, and the SIXTIES also saw the Lord’s Prayer finally dropped from public schools and the Protestant churches one by one drop all their past opposition to the PILL. Girls were as “safe” from consequences at last, as they always thought the boys were, to begin more freely engaging in promiscuity.
No one had to get married so they just date for over a decade and delay growing up. Education and careers exploded as new gods.
Correlation isn’t causation.
At this point in our history we don't know enough about brain chemistry to be mucking with it... I totally agree with you on that...