[Uncle Bill]

A Problem With Guns?
"Americans were once self-confidently independent self-reliant mentalities. As a predominant American characteristic, that died out with the demographic and cultural descendency of the last of the great generations of Americans born in the early 1900s. In the last four decades Americans have become highly suggestible conformists who fear what they are told to fear, and accept what they are told to accept. They have been conditioned to live in absolute fear of even minor social criticism -- reality doesn't control their thinking, social fear does. In their lack of confidence and softness they need the entire world as a psychological support group. If someone in a TV studio 1,000 miles away representing what is presented as the cultural consensus stamps his foot, many Americans move to get on the latest wave of hysteria portrayed in a virtual reality that is kept uncontested by any other allowed presentation, even though what is being said is an obvious lie or completely irrational.

The American population has become a collection of programmed hysterical unthinking herds.

[RLK]

Did I write that? Some of this stuff is better than I thought at the time.