This virus of vicious violence is a mystery that some day could wipe us all out, terminating our mysteries. It is irrational, incomprehensible, and unjustifiable. Yet it goes on and on, grows and grows. Riding a prolonged wave of technology, it may prove unstoppable. Very much so.
Pessimism is self-fulfilling.
We cannot afford it. A focused movement against violence is the only answer on scene today, but it has prodigious inchoate strength. The world needs to know that the power to restrain violence will not be denied. Much of the restraint is nonviolent in the physical sense. So also the intermediate level of restraint in the form of economic sanctions.