I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.
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Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.
In violence, we forget who we are.
Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.
We need to do something about the culture of violence.
There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.
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