13-year old injured by gunshot at area school. Angry patient fires at doctors in hospital emergency room. Headlines such as these that not long ago would have seemed shocking and outrageous are commonplace today.
American society is gripped by a passion for violence and death that borders on the pathological.
This deeply disturbing trend has not, of course, gone unnoticed. Often they fail, regardless of how hard they try. More and more workers who had the idea their jobs were secure, and were used to comfortable incomes, suddenly get a layoff notice. Then they find it impossible to get another job in their field or at the same pay level. The unskilled and semi-skilled labor of great numbers of workers, especially minorities, is no longer needed due to automation and industry's flight to the third world.