many times must Eric and Dylanhave tried to say that something was wrong? How many times did they try to saythey were suffering because they were considered losers, only to find that toallow verbal expression of this feeling would push them even deeper into thataccursed category of human beings? How many times was their Urge to Speak frustrated, faced with thestupid comment that, as members of the upper-middle class of the worlds mostpowerful country, everything ought to be OK? How many people, like Eric andDylan, pick up guns and go on a shooting spree, trying to say through acts whatthey are not permitted to say in words that something is wrong, that noteverything is OK, that, despite all their wealth and abundance, people have thesacred right to suffer, to not be happy all the time, and to unconditionally putin words whatever makes them suffer, no matter how preposterous this sufferingmay seem?!That such outbursts of violence arejust desperate, vehement nonverbalexpressions of protest against an entire community that with one handgives things, and with the other takes away words, is more than evident: by shooting into crowds, the deepestintention of these trespassers is not tokill people who, more often than not, they do not even know but to kill the ubiquitous and overwhelmingdeafness to verbal expression of suffering, even of minor uneasiness, thatplagues the country. As mentioned before, it is middle-class whitepeople, rather than the least privileged, who commit crimes like those of Ericand Dylan. The fact is, Mr. President,that the American people are starving in the plenty: rich in thingsthey are craving for words! And, in a deplorable frequent way, theyexpress their revolt against such verbalpoverty by killing people at random. It is appalling that a country whoseconstitution establishes freedom of speech as a sacred right has ultimately becamehostage of a kind of psychology which openly exhorts its citizens not to makeuse of such a right in their day-to-day lives! This is surely what is NOT OK! ConsequencesPretending Psychology is one of themain causes of another symptom which afflicts American culture: drug addiction.How can people, even wealthy citizens of the richest nation in the world, ALWAYS PRETEND that everything is ALWAYS OK?As soon as the hypnotic primacy of Pretending Psychology starts to fail which, sooner or later, always happens the next stage is compulsive consumption. This can involve the following (notnecessarily in this order): consumer goods in general, food (hence Americasalarming rate of obesity), alcohol, marijuana, crack, illegal and legal drugs(such as Prozac, a clone of Soma, the pill the state distributes freely in the Brave New World to keep the peoplechronically and moronically happy). Letus not forget that 40% of cocaine production is consumed by Americans, who makeup less than 5% of the worlds population. The RemedyMr. President, focusing the fightagainst the aforementioned symptoms on the destruction of the arms industry, ofthe mafias that produce illegal drugs and on the unstoppable discovery ofmiraculously effective nutritional diets is an impotent, naive strategy. Efforts should be focused on reducingpeoples vulnerability to the appeal of these mafias. Money spent on mental health programs aimed at