If there is unmentionable evil, if violence comes to us, it is never of our making, not our responsibility. Imagine someone, trying to figure out our civilization, viewing nothing but these violent films. That person would conclude that the late twentieth century world is a threatening, potentially violent place, with killer bees, or rats, or genetic nightmares, or slime waiting around every corner. Not a very nice world, this one. Yet a person viewing these films would also conclude that, though the potential for violence and evil was enormous, it was not our responsibility.
People often prefer to consider themselves victims, rather than confess their sin.
Our choices and our decisions have little to do with what bees do, or people at the White House decide. All of this shows a pervasive unwillingness to look critically at what we do, to accept responsibility for the world as it is. Duke Philosopher Alasdair McIntyre says the modern university is extended training in cynicism. You just don't understand what it is like to live in a totalitarian state. In a way we do.