reducethis vulnerability will have an immeasurably greater return than thatused to combat those who sell guns, crack or fatty foods, and the only way to reducethis vulnerability is cleansing the American culture from the hold of a Jurassickind of psychology extolled by singers, film directors and a self-helpliterature moronically inspired by Napoleon Hill which coerce the Americans tobe artificially and permanently OK. If this cleansing is not carried out via a huge project of psycho-sanitation,no matter the amount of guns in the market, mass murder will continue to occur. Encircled by the choir of the chronic likethose just mentioned...Outside the United StatesThe situation described above brings with it an additional problem: neurosis is contagious. The United Statesexports culture. The country has found foreign markets for its dreadful verbalhabits, which it is exporting together with its periodic outbursts of murderousinsanity, fatness, and drug addiction. These exports are well under way: 16children were killed at a school in Scotland in 1996; 35 tourists were killedin Australia in the same year; and a shooting spree at a shopping mall in SaoPaulo in 1999 claimed eight victims (three dead and five injured) and onlyeight because the perpetrator, a 24-year-old medical student, was unable toswitch his Cobray sub-machine gun, capable of firing 960 bullets a minute, fromintermittent to automatic mode.[10] Given the contagious nature of neurosis, itwould be wise not only for the US but for all other nations to start to equipthemselves with the antidote: to implementa new kind of verbal communication that allow all emotions not only the so-called positive ones - to become words. Paradoxically enough, pathology (from theGreed pathos, emotion + logos, discourse) in its proper sense, is not aproblem, its the cure[11]. [1] Obamas June 18, 2015 statement at the White House, sonn after a gunmankilled nine worshipers at a church in Charleston, South Caroline: "Now isthe time for mourning and for healing. But lets be clear: At some point, we asa country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violencedoes not happen in other advanced countries. It doesnt happen in other placeswith this kind of frequency. And it is in our power to do something aboutit."[2] This article is an adaptation of a chapter of my book A Nova Conversa (The NewConversation). EBRAICO, L.C, Rio deJaneiro: Ediouro, 2004 (soon to appearin its English version).[3] Como e possivel? in Veja magazine, year 32, edition 17, April28, 1999.[4] Ibid.[5] A similar analysis can be made forJapanese culture. The phobia of failure there is as ever-present as in USculture, but while the extroverted nature of the Americans may reach a point inwhich this phobia is expressed via unbearable episodes of mass murdering,Japanese introversion tends to produce an alarming suicide rate, particularlyamong teenagers and children. So we shouldnt be surprised that the saying Whyget an ulcer, if you can give them? is American rather than Japanese.[6] NIETZSCHE, F. Op. cit., p. 129.[7]MAINARDI, D. Imperio do Plagio, in Vejamagazine, November 20, 1996.[8] Painstakingly emphasized by the widely Neurolinguistic Programming, atechnically sophisticated variation of brain-washing.[9] Zeldin, T., in his book, Conversation.[10] I