The violence is not only graphically reported, but repeated over and over. Fiction, music, books, movies and TV are even more vivid and persuasive. Being violent seems the overwhelming way for people, especially young people, to behave. In Erie, we have started a non-violence initiative intended to saturate the community with peaceful, positive expressions to make a start at offsetting the promotion of violence. Leaflets are put in grocery bags in food pantries and supermarkets.
Posters are also in local buses.
TV stations are showing the poster message in public-service announcements. We believe we can move mountains, if only one shovel at a time. R.E. Alexander Erie, Pa . In comparison with some other countries, ours is relatively peaceful. We think we are violent because we sense, rightly, that we have changed from something once otherwise.