Thus, violent acts are an extremely expedient and rewarding method of exercising power. These deleterious values have engendered disturbing trends in our modern society. During the two year stretch from 1990-1992, more than 90,000 people were murdered, this is twice the number of American casualties during the entire Vietnam conflict. Clearly, the escalation of violence on American soil has only worsened since 1992. Terrifying statistics and stories pour in daily.
Hope remains however.
The rate of violent crime in the United States is worse than in any industrialized country. The United States homicide rate is more than five times that of Europe, and four times that of Canada, Australia, or New Zealand. In addition, the rate at which rapes occur in the United States is nearly seven times higher than it is in Europe. However, their problems with violence in their society are also much understated, compared with the situation here, in America. Similarly, the Hong Kong director John Woo produces films which glorify violence in aesthetic choreography.