Michael Tonry writes in Chicago Journal the following:
Historian Richard L. Hofstadter long ago observed, "Americans certainly have reason to inquire whether, when compared with other advanced industrial nations, they are not a people of exceptional violence (1970, p. 6). The answer is, yes, they are; we are.
Exceptionalism is a result of a sick society dominated by greed, selfishness, lack of love. The only known cure for such a society, the only way it can heal, is to be dominated by giving, sharing and love.
Here is the article title and the link, for anyone who wants to dig into some of the reasons and history of American Exceptionalism, vis-a-vis, violence.
I'm thinking of the irate carpenter who was sent for angle-management.
and: America - more guns than people?
But it's the foreign policy mindset as self-appointed world policeman that damages not improves world peace. Pax-Americana where democracy comes out of the end of a gun, and the interchangeability of democracy/capitalism.
Michael Tonry writes in Chicago Journal the following:
Historian Richard L. Hofstadter long ago observed, "Americans certainly have reason to inquire whether, when compared with other advanced industrial nations, they are not a people of exceptional violence (1970, p. 6). The answer is, yes, they are; we are.
So, yes, American Exceptionalism at work.
Exceptionalism is a result of a sick society dominated by greed, selfishness, lack of love. The only known cure for such a society, the only way it can heal, is to be dominated by giving, sharing and love.
Here is the article title and the link, for anyone who wants to dig into some of the reasons and history of American Exceptionalism, vis-a-vis, violence.
Why America Are a People of Exceptional Violence.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/727313?af=R&ai=7st&mi=3elpax
Thank you for the link, Perry
I'm thinking of the irate carpenter who was sent for angle-management.
and: America - more guns than people?
But it's the foreign policy mindset as self-appointed world policeman that damages not improves world peace. Pax-Americana where democracy comes out of the end of a gun, and the interchangeability of democracy/capitalism.