I was talking to my husband last night and asked him if it seemed like people were getting more evil. I get that we are constantly pumped with unbalanced, negative perspectives from the stupid media, and I have no way of quantifying it, but dang. He agrees that it just seems people here are getting more outrageous. Drugs and nihilism.
The biggest force is the moving pictures, TV, videos, or however they see them, it is constant images of bold moves, taking action, doing the action, and being the action figure, it has saturated their brains with the imperative to act on the impulse, a rock doesn’t get thrown through that window if you don’t pick it up and throw it, be bold, ACT, do it, BE, see the visual.
Everyone is in the center of their own movie, I remember my shock when the TV started showing the double tap, and sure enough, street shooters started finishing off the wounded over the following decades.
Think of a million young people from pre-TV with no artificial images filling their minds versus young men and women today, no wonder they aren’t calm and thoughtful people, they are caught inside a movie matrix always requiring an instant decision for every impulse, take action, or be passive.