Posted by sigismund on December 18, 2012, at 22:02:52
In reply to violence, posted by baseball55 on December 18, 2012, at 19:50:13
G'day :) I was in Cusco. Habloing espanol.
Have any of these massacres been performed by women? It's the same here perhaps...a subset of men who are violent all round, including to other men. But why?
When did this start anyway? Have these things always existed? I do remember a time before any airport security, when the thought of blowing up a plane had never occurred.
But where I live now there is a lot of pointless violence. You can be killed at 1am by someone you don't know for no reason at all (which is new).
I was struck by the Peruvians. They can, of course, be violent too, but there is a culture (not always complied with) of public politeness and non-expression of anger. Now that I think of it most of the world I have seen is like that. East Asia, anyway.
One review of Cormac McCarthy (AS Byatt?) said his subject was American rage, but this was not enlarged upon.
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