In fact, it's a great pacification and passivity training. I wish people were a little more aggressive. I wish people would stand up for their rights, and be more aggressive in that way. No, violence teaches them to be insecure, more dependent, more afraid. Even even though I don't see the violence in my own home or neighborhood that I see on the screen, I still think that's the way the world is-mean, dangerous, and not to be trusted.
Strangers are to be feared.
Now, that is the crumbling of the veneer of civilization. I define civilization as a society in which kindness to strangers is one of the key words. A handful of dramatic and tragic incidents have been so amplified and made to reverberate in every home that we have become afraid of strangers. We have become brutalized, and in many ways have lost what I consider to be the hallmark of a civilized life. A common misconception is that violence is what people want.