[henry quirk]

No. This ("death-fetishizing, sensationalist, and destructive CULTURE") as descriptor for America, is exaggeration taken to an absurd point.


If all you see is one extreme aspect of America, ignoring all others, then you suffer from skewed thinking.

Take a friggin' walk -- with 'open' eyes -- through any town or city you care to name: you'll see all manner of extremisms running along side all manner of moderatisms and all manner of down-right placid, peaceful, and serene-isms.


Hyperbole is the tool of the Sophist (there's more than one of those in this place...are you one?)


Decisions made in the midst of anger or grief are always bad decisions.

Reaction is the enemy of response.

Long past time, I think, for folks to 'stop' and 'think'.

It 'feels good' to be righteous, but righteous is not always 'right'.

I, for one, will not follow you (or any one) down the path of 'good intentions'.