Society has quietly been promoting aspirations of victimhood and indolence. One ramification of the ghetto mentality is the prevalence of random acts of violence. When escapism abounds, when hope is lost, when there is nothing you can do, the long term future is forgotten. The long term penalties for violent behavior are forgotten. Short term gratification becomes the primary focus of life.
Violence is the easiest tool to achieve that power.
According to the second law of thermodynamics, all things tend to traverse from order to disorder. Therefore, great energy and effort must be put into creating an object of complex order. To destroy someone else s creation requires very little energy and almost no effort. Thus, violent acts are an extremely expedient and rewarding method of exercising power. These deleterious values have engendered disturbing trends in our modern society.